The 17 Global Goals - the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - define global sustainable development priorities and aspirations for 2030 and seek to mobilize global efforts around a common set of goals and targets. The SDGs call for worldwide action among governments, business and civil society to end poverty and create a life of dignity and opportunity for all, within the boundaries of the planet.
Unlike their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs explicitly call on all businesses to apply their creativity and innovation to solve sustainable development challenges. As the SDGs form the global agenda for the development of our societies, they will allow leading companies to demonstrate how their business helps to advance sustainable development, both by minimizing negative impacts and maximizing positive impacts on people and the planet.
Covering a wide spectrum of sustainable development topics relevant to companies – such as poverty, health, education, climate change and environmental degradation – the SDGs can help to connect business strategies with global priorities. Companies can as such use the SDGs as an overarching framework to shape, steer, communicate and report their strategies, goals and activities.
(Source: SDG Compass)
SDG1: No Poverty
Metrics
END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS EVERYWHERE
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1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
GRI Indicator: G4-EC8
1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
GRI Indicators: G4-DMA-b, G4-SO2, G4-EC8, AO8, CRE7, former EU19, EU20, EU22, former EU23, EU24, EU26, EU27, EU28, EU29, EU30, FS6, FS7, FS13, FS14, former FS16, MM5, MM7, MM8, MM9, OG9, OG10, OG11, OG12, OG14
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-16.5
Access to Medicine Indicators: D.III.2
Women's World Banking Gender Performance Indicators:
Average initial loan balance as a percent of per capita Gross National Income (GNI), by gender
Client retention rate, by gender
New women clients as a percent of total new clients
Percent of loan portfolio and average loan balance, by gender
Percent of women clients accessing two or more distinct types of voluntary financial products
Percent of women clients below a defined poverty threshold
Percent of women clients who attend financial education programs
Percent of women clients, by loan cycle or by join year
Portfolio at Risk > 30 days, by gender
Product growth, by gender
Women clients as a percent of addressable market
Women clients as a percent of total clients
Women clients as a percent of total women served by comparable provides in the market
1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
GRI Indicator: former EU21
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1.a Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programs and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.b Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
SDG2: No Hunger
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END HUNGER, ACHIEVE FOOD SECURITY AND IMPROVE NUTRITION AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
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2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
GRI Indicators: former FP4, FP5, FP6, FP7, former FP8, FP12
2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons
GRI Indicators: former FP4, FP6, FP7
2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
GRI Indicators: G4-SO2, G4-EC8, G4-HR8, AO8, CRE7, EU19, former EU20, EU22, MM5, MM6, MM7, MM8, MM9, OG9, OG10, OG11, OG12, OG14
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-16.5
2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality
GRI Indicators: FP2, OG14
2.5 By 2020, maintain genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at national, regional and international levels, and ensure access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge as internationally agreed
GRI Indicators: FP9
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2.a. Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development, and plant and livestock gene banks to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular in least developed countries
2.b. Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets including by the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.c. Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives, and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Poverty Footprint Indicator: PF-14.5
SDG3: Good Health and Well-being
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ENSURE HEALTHY LIVES AND PROMOTE WELL-BEING FOR ALL AT ALL AGES
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3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and under-five children
GRI Indicators: former FP4 (Food Processing Sector Disclosure)
3.3 By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases
3.4 By 2030, reduce by one-third pre-mature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through prevention and treatment, and promote mental health and wellbeing
3.5 Strengthen prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol
GRI Indicators: M4, M5
3.6 By 2020, halve global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-14.7 iii)
3.8 Achieve universal health coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
GRI Indicator: G4-EC8
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-13.7, PF-14.1, PF-14.4, PF-14.7 ii)
Access to Medicine Index Indicators: D.I.1, D.I.2, D.III.2
3.9 By 2030 substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution and contamination
GRI Indicators: G4-LA6, G4-LA7, G4-EN15, G4-EN16, G4-EN17, G4-EN20, G4-EN21, G4-EN22, G4-EN23, G4-EN24, G4-EN25, AO4, AO5, AO6, CRE5, MM1, MM3, MM8, OG5, OG6, OG7, OG9, OG13
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3.a. Strengthen implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries as appropriate
3.b. Support research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the TRIPS agreement regarding flexibilities to protect public health and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all
Access to Medicine Indicators: B.III.4, C.III.1, E.I.1, E.II.1, E.III.2
3.c. Increase substantially health financing and the recruitment, development and training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in LDCs and SIDS
Access to Medicine Indicators: G.I.3, G.III.3, G.III.4
3.d. Strengthen the capacity of all countries, particularly developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction, and management of national and global health risks
SDG4: Quality Education
Metrics
ENSURE INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION AND PROMOTE LIFELONG LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL
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4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
GRI Indicator: G4-LA9
4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and children in vulnerable situations
GRI Indicator: G4-LA9
4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and men, achieve literacy and numeracy
GRI Indicator: M7
4.7 By 2030, ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of cultures contribution to sustainable development
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4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
GRI Indicator: CRE8
4.b By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships for developing countries in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries for enrollment in higher education, including vocational training, and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programs in developed countries and other developing countries
4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries, small island developing States
SDG5: Gender Equality
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ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS
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5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
Women's Empowerment Principles: Does the organization have a zero-tolerance policy regarding gender based violence?
5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilations
5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life
5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Program of Action of the ICPD and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-14.7 iii)
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5.a. Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance, and natural resources in accordance with national laws
5.b. Enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment
Understanding & Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE): Economic Advancement Indicators, Agency / Decision Making
5.c. Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Metrics
ENSURE AVAILABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF WATER AND SANITATION FOR ALL
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6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
WASH Pledge Indicators: WWS2.1, WWS2.4
6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
WASH Pledge Indicators: WH4.4, WS3.2
Understanding and Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Indicators: Economic Advancement Indicators, Work Environment
6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity, and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
GRI Indicators: CRE2, CRE8, G4-EN8, G4-EN9, G4-EN10, G4-EN27, OG5
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-16.13
WASH Pledge Indicators: WWS2.9
CDP's 2015 Water Questionnaire: W1.2c, W5.3, W5.1, W1.2a, W5.1a
6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
No indicators identified
6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
GRI Indicators: MM1, MM2, MM3, MM8, EU13, G4-EN11, G4-EN12, G4-EN13, G4-EN14, G4-EN22, G4-EN24, G4-EN26, CRE5, OG4
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6.a By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water and sanitation related activities and programs, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
No indicators identified
6.b Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Metrics
ENSURE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, SUSTAINABLE AND MODERN ENERGY FOR ALL
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7.1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services
- GRI Indicators: EU30, EU29, former EU6, EU27, EU26, EU10, EU28, former EU24, former EU23
7.2 Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN3, G4-EN4, EU1, EU2, former EU8, OG2, OG3, OG14
- CDP’s 2015 Climate Change Information Request: CC11.3
7.3 Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030
- GRI Indicators: EU11, EU12, CRE1, CRE8, former EU7, G4-EN3, G4-EN4, G4-EN5, G4-EN6, G4-EN7, former MM11, OG6
- CDP’s 2015 Climate Change Information Request: CC10.1a, CC11.3, CC11.4, CC11.2
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7.a By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technologies, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced and cleaner fossil fuel technologies, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technologies
7.b By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, particularly LDCs and SIDS
SDG8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
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PROMOTE SUSTAINED, INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH, FULL AND PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT AND DECENT WORK FOR ALL
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8.1 Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances, and in particular at least 7% per annum GDP growth in the least-developed countries
8.2 Achieve higher levels of productivity of economies through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high value added and labor-intensive sectors
8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage 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 endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead
GRI Indicators: EU11, CRE1, CRE2, former EU7, G4-EN1, G4-EN2, G4-EN3, G4-EN4, G4-EN5, G4-EN6, G4-EN7, G4-EN10, G4-EN27, G4-EN28, former MM11, EU12 , CRE8, OG5, OG6
CDP’s 2015 Climate Change Information Request: CC10.1a, CC11.3, CC11.4, CC11.2
CDP's 2015 Water Questionnaire: W1.2c, W5.3
8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
GRI Indicators: G4-10, G4-EC5, G4-EC6, G4-EC8, G4-LA1, G4-LA2, G4-LA3, G4-LA9, G4-LA10, G4-LA11, G4-LA12, G4-LA13, EU15, former EU14,
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-2.1, PF-3.2, PF-3.3, PF-3.4, PF-5.6, PF-9.8
8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
GRI Indicators: G4-LA1
8.7 Take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labor, eradicate forced labor, and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms including recruitment and use of child soldiers
8.8 Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments of all workers, including migrant workers, particularly women migrants, and those in precarious employment
GRI Indicators: G4-11, EU17, G4-LA4, G4-LA5, G4-LA6, G4-LA7, G4-LA8, G4-LA14, G4-LA15, MM4, MM8, OG13, G4-HR3, G4-HR4, EU18, CRE6, FP3, former EU16,
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-3.5, PF-3.6, PF-3.10, PF-7.6, PF-7.7, PF-9.4, PF-9.5, PF-9.7, PF-13.1, PF-13.2, PF-13.4, PF-13.10, PF-13.12, PF-13.13
8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products
Global Sustainable Tourism Council Criteria and Suggested Performance Indicators for Hotels and Tour Operators: IN-B2.a, IN-B3.a, IN-B4.a,
8.10 strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and to expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
GRI Indicators: FS13, former FS16, FS14, FS7, FS6
Women's World Banking Gender Performance Indicators:
Average initial loan balance as a percent of per capita Gross National Income (GNI), by gender
Client retention rate, by gender
New women clients as a percent of total new clients
Percent of loan portfolio and average loan balance, by gender
Percent of women clients accessing two or more distinct types of voluntary financial products
Percent of women clients below a defined poverty threshold
Percent of women clients who attend financial education programs
Percent of women clients, by loan cycle or by join year
Portfolio at Risk > 30 days, by gender
Product growth, by gender
Women clients as a percent of addressable market
Women clients as a percent of total clients
Women clients as a percent of total women served by comparable provides in the market
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8.a. Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, particularly LDCs, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for LDCs
No indicators identified
8.b. By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the ILO Global Jobs Pact
No indicators identified
SDG9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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BUILD RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, PROMOTE INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FOSTER INNOVATION
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9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and trans-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and by 2030 raise significantly industry’s share of employment and GDP in line with national circumstances, and double its share in LDCs
9.3 Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, particularly in developing countries, to financial services including affordable credit and their integration into value chains and markets
- GRI Indicators: G4-FS6, G4-FS7
9.4 By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, particularly developing countries, including by 2030 encouraging innovation and increasing the number of R&D workers per one million people by x% and public and private R&D spending
- GRI Indicators: G4-EC1, G4-EN31, former EU8, EO13, former MM11, OG2
- Access to Medicine Indicators: F.III.1, F.III.2, F.III.3
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9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS
9.b Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for inter alia industrial diversification and value addition to commodities
9.c Significantly increase access to ICT and strive to provide universal and affordable access to internet in LDCs by 2020
SDG10: Reduced Inequalities
Metrics
REDUCE INEQUALITY WITHIN AND AMONG COUNTRIES
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10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40% of the population at a rate higher than the national average
GRI Indicator: G4-EC8
10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
GRI Indicators: G4-LA13, CRE8, EO3, EO5, EO6, FS7, FS13, FS14, former FS16, M4, M5
Women's World Banking Gender Performance Indicators:
Average initial loan balance as a percent of per capita Gross National Income (GNI), by gender
Client retention rate, by gender
New women clients as a percent of total new clients
Percent of loan portfolio and average loan balance, by gender
Percent of women clients accessing two or more distinct types of voluntary financial products
Percent of women clients below a defined poverty threshold
Percent of women clients who attend financial education programs
Percent of women clients, by loan cycle or by join year
Portfolio at Risk > 30 days, by gender
Product growth, by gender
Women clients as a percent of addressable market
Women clients as a percent of total clients
Women clients as a percent of total women served by comparable provides in the market
10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including through eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting apropriate legislation, policies and actions in this regard
Poverty Footprint Indicator: PF-20.10
10.4 Adopt policies especially fiscal, wage, and social protection policies and progressively achieve greater equality
10.5 Improve regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen implementation of such regulations
GRI Indicators: former FS1, former FS2, former FS3, former FS4, former FS5, former FS9, FS10, FS11, former FS15
10.6 Ensure enhanced representation and voice of developing countries in decision making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies
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10.a. Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with WTO agreements
10.b. Encourage ODA and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to states where the need is greatest, in particular LDCs, African countries, SIDS, and LLDCs, in accordance with their national plans and programs
GRI Indicator: G4-EC8
10.c. By 2030, reduce to less than 3% the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5%
SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Metrics
MAKE CITIES AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS INCLUSIVE, SAFE, RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE
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11.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services, and upgrade slums
- GRI Indicator: FS7
11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
11.3 By 2030 enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacities for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
- GRI Indicator: CRE8
11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
- GRI Indicators: former EU20, M3, OG12
11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of affected people and decrease by y% the economic losses relative to GDP caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with the focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
- GRI Indicators: former EU21, OG13
11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality, municipal and other waste management
11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, particularly for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities
- GRI Indicator: EO13
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11.a Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning
11.b By 2020, increase by x% the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels
11.c Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, for sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials
SDG12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Metrics
ENSURE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION PATTERNS
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12.1 Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programs on sustainable consumption and production (10YFP), 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 sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN1, G4-EN2, G4-EN3, G4-EN4, G4-EN5, G4-EN6, G4-EN7, G4-EN10, G4-EN27, G4-EN28, CRE1, CRE2, CRE8, EO9, former EU7, EU11, EU12, FP2, former MM11, OG5, OG6
- CDP's 2015 Water Questionaire Indicators: W1.2c, W5.3
- CEO Water Mandate
12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses
12.4 By 2020, achieve 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 to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN15, G4-EN16, G4-EN17,G4-EN20, G4-EN21, G4-EN22, G4-EN23, G4-EN24, G4-EN25, G4-EN27, G4-EN30, G4-EN31, AO4, AO5, AO6, CRE5, former EU9, MM1, MM3, MM8, OG5, OG6, OG7, OG8
- CEO Water Mandate
12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and trans-national 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
- GRI Indicator: G4-EC9
12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
- GRI Indicator: G4-PR3
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12.a Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacities to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12.b Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism which creates jobs, 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
SDG13: Climate Action
Metrics
TAKE URGENT ACTION TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS
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13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
GRI Indicators: G4-EC2, G4-EN3, G4-EN4, G4-EN5, G4-EN6, G4-EN7, G4-EN15, G4-EN16, G4-EN17, G4-EN18, G4-EN19, G4-EN27, G4-EN30, G4-EN31, CRE1, CRE3, CRE4, CRE8, EU5, former EU7, EU11, EU12, former MM11, OG6
Poverty Footprint Indicators: PF-17.1, PF-17.8, PF-17.9, PF-17.10, PF-17.13
CPD's Climate Change Information Request Indicators: CC3.2, CC3.3a, CC5.1, CC6.1, CC8.2, CC8.3, CC10.1a, CC11.2, CC11.3, CC11.4, CC12.1, CC12.2, CC12.3, CC14.1, CC14.3
13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning
13.3 Improve education, awareness raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and early warning
GRI Indicator: G4-EN31
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13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by developed country Parties to the UNFCCC to a goal of mobilizing jointly USD100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacities for effective climate change-related planning and management, in LDCs, including focusing on women, youth, local and marginalized communities
SDG14: Life Below Water
Metrics
CONSERVE AND SUSTAINABLY USE THE OCEANS, SEAS AND MARINE RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN22, G4-EN24, CRE5, MM1, OG5
- CDP Water Questionaire Indicators: W1.2b, W5.2a
- CEO Water Mandate
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration, to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN15, G4-EN16, G4-EN17, G4-EN18, G4-EN19, G4-EN21, G4-EN27, G4-EN31, CRE3, CRE4, EU2, EU5, EU11, EU12, OG6
- CDP Climate Change Information Request Indicators: CC3.2, CC3.3a, CC8.2, CC8.3, CC12.1, CC12.2, CC12.3, CC14.1, CC14.3
14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting, and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
- GRI Indicators: EO9, FP2
14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information
14.6 By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, and eliminate subsidies that contribute to IUU fishing, and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits to SIDS and LDCs from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
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14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacities and transfer marine technology taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular SIDS and LDCs
14.b Provide access of small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.c Ensure the full implementation of international law, as reflected in UNCLOS for states parties to it, including, where applicable, existing regional and international regimes for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by their parties
SDG15: Life on Land
Metrics
PROTECT, RESTORE AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE USE OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, SUSTAINABLY MANAGE FORESTS, COMBAT DESERTIFICATION, HALT AND REVERSE LAND DEGRADATION AND HALT BIODIVERSITY LOSS
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15.1 By 2020, ensure conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN11, G4-EN12, G4-EN13, G4-EN14, G4-EN24, G4-EN26, G4-EN31, CRE5, EU13, MM1, MM2, OG4
15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests, and increase afforestation and reforestation by x% globally
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN15, G4-EN16, G4-EN17, G4-EN18, G4-EN19, G4-EN21, G4-EN12, G4-EN27, CRE3, CRE4, CRE5, EU5, EO9, FP2, OG14
- CDP's Forests Information Request Indicators: F5.2a, F8.2, F8.2a
- CDP's Climate Change Information Request Indicators: CC3.2, CC3.3a, CC8.2, CC8.3, CC12.1, CC12.2, CC12.3, CC14.1, CC14.3
- WBCSD Forest Solutions Group KPI: 1B, 1C
15.3 By 2020, combat desertification, and restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land-degradation neutral world
- GRI Indicators: CRE5, MM1
15.4 By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, to enhance their capacity to provide benefits which are essential for sustainable development
15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce degradation of natural habitat, halt the loss of biodiversity, and by 2020 protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
- GRI Indicators: G4-EN11, G4-EN12, G4-EN13, G4-EN14, G4-EN26, CRE5, EU13, EO9, FP2, MM1, MM2, OG4, OG14
15.6 Ensure fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, and promote appropriate access to genetic resources
- GRI Indicator: FP9
15.7 Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna, and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products
15.8 By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems, and control or eradicate the priority species
15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystems and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes and poverty reduction strategies, and accounts
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15.a Mobilize and significantly increase from all sources financial resources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
15.b Mobilize significantly resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management, and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance sustainable forest management, including for conservation and reforestation
15.c Enhance global support to efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities
SDG16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Metrics
PROMOTE PEACEFUL AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, PROVIDE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR ALL AND BUILD EFFECTIVE, ACCOUNTABLE AND INCLUSIVE INSTITUTIONS AT ALL LEVELS
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16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
Women's Empowerment Principles: Does the business have an explicit, well-publicized policy of zero tolerance towards gender-based violence and harassment? Is there a confidential complaint procedure? If yes, please explain.
16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
Women's Empowerment Principles: Does the business have a policy on the prohibited types of client entertainment (e.g. sex industry) and how does it communicate this policy internally?
GRI Indicators: G4-HR5
16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
GRI Indicators: G4-56, G4-57, G4-58, G4-EN29, G4-EN34, G4-HR12, G4-LA16, G4-SO7, G4-SO8, G4-SO11, G4-PR2, G4-PR4, G4-PR7, G4-PR8, G4-PR9
Poverty Footprint Indicator: PF-8.1
16.4 By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime
No indicators identified
16.5 Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
No indicators identified
16.9 By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration
No indicators identified
16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
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16.a Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
No indicators identified
16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
GRI Indicators: G4-HR3
SDG17: Partnerships for the Goals
Metrics
STRENGTHEN THE MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND REVITALIZE THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
- No indicators identified
17.2 Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
- No indicators identified
17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
- GRI Indicator: G4-EC8
17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
- No indicators identified
17.5 Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
- No indicators identified
Technology
17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.7 Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.8 Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
Capacity-Building
17.9 Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
Trade
17.10 Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.11 Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.12 Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
Systemic issues
Policy and Institutional coherence
17.13 Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.15 Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
Multi-stakeholder partnerships
17.16 Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability
17.18 By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries