{"id":117143,"date":"2023-09-25T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/do-businesses-still-care-about-the-sustainable-development-goals\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T04:35:39","slug":"do-businesses-still-care-about-the-sustainable-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/do-businesses-still-care-about-the-sustainable-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Do businesses still care about the Sustainable Development Goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117143\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>More than half of businesses believe that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) act as an important framework to help elevate sustainability strategies, but only four in 10 have actually examined the Goals at a sub-target level. The results were based on a survey of more than 100 CSR professionals\u00a0Since they were created in 2015, more than 10,000 companies, most national governments and thousands of investors have pledged to support the SDGs in some way. Now, concerns persist that the SDGs, despite encompassing every part of the global economy thematically, are dropping down both the corporate and political agenda as a result of disruptive issues that are pressing society and the economy, including the ongoing war in Ukraine which has caused additional ripple effects in the form of skyrocketing gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s latest annual report tracking progress towards each of the 17 Goals, published in July 2023, found that the world is \u201cwoefully\u201d unprepared to deliver the SDGs by 2030. To gauge an understanding of how tuned-in to the SDGs sustainability professionals are, edie ran a survey earlier in the year in order to gain insight into how corporates were approaching the Global Goals and whether they could be delivered as part of a Just Transition.<\/p>\n<p>The survey ran for one month in August 2023 and garnered responses from 100 corporate representatives. Respondents worked for a range of different-sized organisations across all sectors of the UK economy. The survey found that 77% of sustainability professionals believe their organisation was aligned with \u201csome of the goals\u201d, while just 17% claimed to be aligned with all 17 SDGs. Only 5% said their organisation had \u201cno alignment\u201d with the Global Goals.<\/p>\n<p>Less than half (42%) claimed that their organisation had analysed progress at an overarching Goal level (for example Goal 13: Climate Action. 27% of respondents said they were analysing the Goals at a sub-target level. The same number of respondents (27%) stated that they hadn\u2019t analysed progress against targets at all.\u00a0Indeed, Goals 13: Climate Action proved to be the most common goal that businesses were aligned to. That Goal was reported against by 76% of businesses. Aside from climate action, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth (58%), SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production (53%), SDG 5: Gender Equality (53%) and SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (37%) round up the top five.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that more than half of businesses (53%) believe that the SDGs are \u201cvery important\u201d as a tool to help advance sustainability strategies, compared to just 3% who claim they are \u201cnot at all important\u201d. Just under half (45%) claimed that delivering bespoke plans against the SDGs was very important in \u201cmeeting customer expectations\u201d, while 41% claimed that they helped deliver reputational gains as well.\u00a0The two biggest challenges cited by corporate respondents to edie\u2019s SDG survey were the \u201cdisconnect between some SDGs and business purpose\u201d (21%), the lack of standardised SDG performance indicators (19%) and a general lack of understanding and awareness of the Goals (16%).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/the-2023-sdg-business-blueprint\/\">Find out more key insight about how businesses can deliver the SDGs in our new report.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soure: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/do-businesses-still-care-about-the-sustainable-development-goals\/\">edit.net<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/do-businesses-still-care-about-the-sustainable-development-goals\/\">Do businesses still care about the Sustainable Development Goals?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[345,555,2145,11577],"class_list":["post-117143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-csr-news-en","tag-development","tag-susrtainable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}