Mid-term review of global sustainable development
Sustainable development goals can be achieved in fifteen years. This is what the UN member states thought when they agreed on the ambitious global SDG goals in 2015. Now half of the time has been used, and it doesn’t look good.
The threat is the downward spiral of accelerated climate change and biodiversity loss, diseases, economic collapse and wars. Even the most prosperous and stable countries have obvious difficulties in the implementation of the goals. There is little evidence of concrete changes in the structures and operating methods of societies. The SDG goals have renewed the way in which sustainability is talked about, but the power of change in practice has remained low. (by Kestävää Kehitystä -blogi)
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Top of the management agenda
In recent decades, sustainability has gained a place high up on the corporate strategy agenda. In tandem with pressure from concerned citizens and their own staff, businesses are also facing tighter regulation by government. Increasing concern about issues of sustainability is also impacting the financial markets, and investors are expecting more and more of companies with regard to their sustainability performance.
Businesses find themselves under pressure from multiple sides: society, regulators and investors. This has led to strong demand for a standardized framework for measuring corporate responsibility. One popular framework is ESG, the initials standing for the three core dimensions of sustainability: environmental, social, and corporate governance issues.
Partners from Ronald Bergen have developed four scenarios (narratives) of what the world may look like in 2050. The thirty-year timeframe is long enough for the scenarios to differ substantially from each other, and also reflects the planning horizon of governments and regulatory bodies, and hence companies. Those four scenarios form a panorama of the future with regard to sustainability – a ”sustainarama”. (by Roland Berger)
What can companies do to shape a future that is livable, equitable and environmentally secure?
Sustainarama might provide to you new sustainable ideas to think about.