Ranking and Acknowledging Companies According to their Application of the Sustainable Development Goals - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform

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Ranking and Acknowledging Companies According to their Application of the Sustainable Development Goals

Description
SDGs & Targets
Deliverables & timeline
Resources mobilized

Description/achievement of initiative

CEMDES believes companies can help with the fulfillment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by going about their business but with a larger and human vision - it is preferable to sell health that a bunch of soaps, for example. The time has come to crystallize the SDGs into business’ growth strategies. CEMDES will help this change of patterns and also give some ideas and methodologies.

Implementation methodologies

CEMDES will share with its members information and knowledge about the SDGs that companies could apply to their business, and also the members of the Chamber of Industries of Guayaquil. Companies submit to an online evaluation first, then are audited by CEMDES using methodologies such as inclusive business, measuring economic and social impacts by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, and Valuing Natural Capital.Each November, companies who demonstrate that their product, services, and way of doing business are in accordance with the SDGs will be featured in an online report. On October 22, 2015, CEMDES will organize an informational event named Dialogue with Sustainable Leaders, which will be held in Guayaquil.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

CEMDES will share with its members information and knowledge about the SDGs that companies could apply to their business, and also the members of the Chamber of Industries of Guayaquil.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

CEMDES coordinates the initiative.

Partner(s)

* Consejo Empresarial para el Desarrollo Sostenible Ecuador (CEMDES) * Cámara de Industrias de Guayaquil (Chamber of Industries in Guayaquil) * 54 companies that are members of CEMDES (e.g., Holcim, Andec, Pronaca, Pica, Mexichem Plastigama, Conauto, Estudio Juridico Manzano, Co2mpensa, Industrial Azucarera San Carlos, Valdez, Codana, Pronobis, ESPAE, Veritas DBO, Norlop Thompson, TONI, SEMAICA, Constructora Valero, Agripac, Ecuaquimica, Syngenta, Innovagro, La Fabril, etc.)

Progress reports

Goal 8

8.2 - Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

8.3 - Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

8.4 - Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead

Goal 12

12.1 - Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries

12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

12.3 - By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

12.4 - By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

12.5 - By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.6 - Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

12.7 - Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities

12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

12.a - Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production

12.b - Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

12.c - Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities

November 2016