People Prosperity Peace and Partnership Planet Scottish Sustainable
People Prosperity Peace and Partnership Planet
Scottish Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Reporting Working Group Launch 1. 30 – 4. 30 pm, Monday 17 September 2018 Surgeons Quarter, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH 8 9 DW
One Planet Prosperity SEPA’s Regulatory Strategy Help as many businesses as possible to go beyond basic compliance Get those we regulate to reach compliance quickly, easily and as cost effectively as possible Enforce
• Opportunities for business in the Sustainable Development Goals Steve Kenzie Executive Director UN Global Compact Network UK
• SDGs are Good for BUSINESS! • Better educated and more productive workforce • Economic and political stability • More fair and just societies • Climate resilience • And more. . .
• CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES • Helps business be more attractive for investors • Access to and management of the supply chain • Improves access to public procurement and public investment • Improves competitiveness in hiring best human capital • Social license to operate, public opinion, consumers
• • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote • well-being for all at all ages
• • Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable • management of water and sanitation for all
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all •
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• WWW. SUPPORTTHEGOALS. ORG • Support the Goals is a free initiative to celebrate businesses that support the goals Share your stories alongside other progressive and inspirational brands List your business as a leading organisation that supports Global Goals
• Thanks!
Outer Hebrides Local Energy Hub Partners: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Cn. ES), Community Energy Scotland, Pure Energy Centre, The Scottish Salmon Company Funders: Scottish Government’s Local Energy Challenge Fund and Cn. ES Diagram reproduced with permission of Community Energy Scotland
Workshop - How will business seize SDG opportunities? Question 1 How do you align business models with SDGs in a way that is beneficial to the business? Question 2 How does a business measure success & report on achieving SDG targets?
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