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Please join us (virtually) at the United Nations 2020 High-Level Political Forum on 14 July from 7.30 to 8.30 a.m. New York time for the UN Global Compact’s SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for the Decade of Action. In the Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, the need for increased business ambition is clear. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed weaknesses in our societies and economies, while also providing an opportunity to build back better. The UN Global Compact is launching a new global impact initiative — SDG Ambition — to challenge and support companies in being more strategic and transformational in how they run their businesses to deliver on the 2030 Agenda. Through SDG Ambition, we will challenge companies to set bolder goals aligned with their purpose, governance, and strategy — and address barriers to speed and scale. We will also support companies collaborate better with their partners to spread change in their broader ecosystems. This official side event will showcase the SDG Ambition initiative, presenting both its framework and initial uptake by business, and enable a high-level discussion with business leaders, Member States and the UN system on how to make SDG Ambition mainstream. The event will take place virtually and we encourage interested participants to register here at their earliest convenience.
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Now more than ever, companies everywhere must unite in the business of a more resilient, sustainable world. Despite progress made in many areas, we are not on track to deliver on the SDGs by 2030. In fact, the United Nations Global Compact Progress Report 2020 reveals only 39 per cent of companies surveyed believe they have targets that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Less than a third consider their industry to be moving fast enough to deliver priority SDGs. While 84 per cent of companies surveyed are taking action on SDGs, only 46 per cent are embedding them into their core business and only 37 per cent are designing business models that contribute to the SDGs.
The need for increased business ambition is clear but how do companies get started? How do they set ambitious benchmarks in the areas that will have the greatest business impact on the SDGs and accelerate integration of sustainable development into enterprise management processes and systems? In this webcast:
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With the deadline of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development fast approaching, urgent and ambitious action is needed in order to achieve the Global Goals. As we set out to recover better together from the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time for all companies to raise their ambition for people, planet and prosperity – taking action across all of the Global Goals and at a scale that can create the tipping points for the world we want. That is why, the UN Global Compact is proposing a set of SDG business benchmarks that all companies should align their goals and targets with in order to measurably accelerate progress on the Global Goals. This Academy session will take a closer look at how to set goals and targets that are aligned with these benchmarks.
By completing this session and related learning materials, you will learn to:
- Define what ambitious goal setting looks like — moving beyond “business as usual” towards the transformational change needed to achieve the Global Goals
- Assess whether your sustainability targets are adequately ambitious to accelerate progress on the Global Goals
- Utilize lessons learned from leading companies that are already setting targets aligned with the SDG business benchmarks
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