Global Goals Yearbook 2018
The future of the United Nations is more uncertain than at any time before. Like his predecessors, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has promised to reform the United Nations. Drivers are two major agreements: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Accord. Both stand for a move away from statal top-down multilateralism towards new form of partnership between the public and the private sector as well as the civil society. The Global Goals Yearbook, published under the auspices of the macondo foundation, therefore covers „Partnership for the Goals“ as its 2018 main topic. Our world is truly not sustainable at this time. To make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a success story, we need an enormous increase in effort. This cannot happen without help from the private sector. But businesses need a reason to contribute as well as attractive partnerships that are based on win-win constellations. We have no alternative but to rethink the role that public–private partnerships can play in this effort. That is why United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling upon UN entities to strengthen and better align their private-sector engagement. In every change there is a new chance. The Global Goals Yearbook 2018 discusses the multiple aspects of how private sector engagement can be improved. Recommendations are, among others, to revise multilaterism, partnership models and processes and to invest more in trust, a failure culture as well as metrics and monitoring. When businesses engage in partnerships for the Goals, this is more than just signing checks. It means inserting the “do good” imperative of the SDGs into corporate culture, business cases, innovation cycles, investor relationships, and, of course, the daily management processes and (extra-)financial reporting. The Yearbook includes arguments from academic and business experts, the World Bank and the Club of Rome as well as UN entities, among them UNDP, UNSSC, UNOPS, UN JIU, and UN DESA.
The future of the United Nations is more uncertain than at any time before. Like his predecessors, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has promised to reform the United Nations. Drivers are two major agreements: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Accord. Both stand for a move away from statal top-down multilateralism towards new form of partnership between the public and the private sector as well as the civil society. The Global Goals Yearbook, published under the auspices of the macondo foundation, therefore covers „Partnership for the Goals“ as its 2018 main topic.
Our world is truly not sustainable at this time. To make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a success story, we need an enormous increase in effort. This cannot happen without help from the private sector. But businesses need a reason to contribute as well as attractive partnerships that are based on win-win constellations.
We have no alternative but to rethink the role that public–private partnerships can play in this effort. That is why United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling upon UN entities to strengthen and better align their private-sector engagement. In every change there is a new chance.
The Global Goals Yearbook 2018 discusses the multiple aspects of how private sector engagement can be improved. Recommendations are, among others, to revise multilaterism, partnership models and processes and to invest more in trust, a failure culture as well as metrics and monitoring.
When businesses engage in partnerships for the Goals, this is more than just signing checks. It means inserting the “do good” imperative of the SDGs into corporate culture, business cases, innovation cycles, investor relationships, and, of course, the daily management processes and (extra-)financial reporting.
The Yearbook includes arguments from academic and business experts, the World Bank and the Club of Rome as well as UN entities, among them UNDP, UNSSC, UNOPS, UN JIU, and UN DESA.
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and even the factory owner helped each<br />
other iron and sew the goods. I learned<br />
in the United States that if you are a CEO,<br />
you first need to learn how to clean the<br />
floor. It was teamwork and there was<br />
no gender discrimination or inequality.<br />
We provided extra food to the workers<br />
to cheer them up. Our quality controller<br />
and merchandiser finally checked the<br />
goods and we were able to ship them.<br />
With sweat on our brows and tears in<br />
our eyes – and little profit margin – we<br />
were able to fulfill our customer commitment<br />
and even captured a video of<br />
our production: (http://bit.ly/2FPnuVG).<br />
of the Tide, The <strong>Global</strong> Rose, Belong to<br />
the World, and Journey of the Spirit.<br />
The <strong>Global</strong> Rose is a nonfiction novel<br />
based on the 10 Principles of United<br />
Nations <strong>Global</strong> Compact and mainly<br />
focuses on human rights. Our other new<br />
venture, Baldha Agro Limited, focuses<br />
on pollution-free and chemical-free fish<br />
and vegetables. Therefore, we launched<br />
a project in Asulia to produce fresh tomatoes<br />
to deliver in the surrounding<br />
neighborhoods.<br />
I remember my first convention at the<br />
UN Leaders Summit and noticed something<br />
very valuable. Somehow I lost my<br />
badge but one of the staff members who<br />
was maintaining the facility found my<br />
“There is<br />
no excuse<br />
for not<br />
trying.<br />
Barak Obama<br />
After surmounting many financial barriers<br />
as well as personal and social challenges,<br />
we were able to move on to our<br />
next venture, which was the production<br />
house Tarar Porne. We made a documentary<br />
to create awareness in the mass media<br />
about human rights, environmental<br />
rights, labor rights, and anticorruption.<br />
The <strong>Global</strong> Rose<br />
We also launched an online news portal,<br />
kalerjatra.com, to focus on human rights.<br />
Our Kaler Jatra publication has already<br />
published several books such as Princess<br />
badge and returned it. Humanity does exist,<br />
as does humankind, but it starts with<br />
the very simple actions of hardworking<br />
and honest people. I have noticed that in<br />
seminars, the CEOs do not join because<br />
of a lack of time or maybe sometimes it<br />
is about their pride. The Baldha team is<br />
small and we do not want to carry any<br />
pride. But in order to help humankind<br />
and do good work, we will never stop.<br />
We will keep on trying until we reach<br />
our goal one day and our business is<br />
able to benefit humankind.<br />
HERE ARE SOME<br />
LINKS TO OUR<br />
WORK AT<br />
BALDHA GROUP:<br />
http://bit.ly/2FMeUXx<br />
http://bit.ly/2pctQUz<br />
http://thekalerjatra.com<br />
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