IV SDG Breakfast: the role of companies
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 9:42 am
Last Tuesday, February 5, we held our fourth SDG Breakfast within the series of meetings organized in collaboration with the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS-SDSN) and which aim to generate conversation around the 2030 Agenda and raise awareness about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that comprise it.
Following previous meetings in which we had the participation of María Cortés Puch , Miguel Ángel Moratinos and Carlos Mataix , on this occasion we were lucky enough to have the presence of Leire Pajín, who has chaired REDS-SDSN since last December.
The aim of the meeting was to botim phone number data determine the role of companies in meeting the 2030 Agenda and what method they should follow to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in their business strategy.
Sustainable Development Goals SDG
According to Pajín, “innovation is the fundamental tool for achieving the 2030 Agenda and for developing a deeply transformative action plan that seeks global progress, taking into account the limits of the planet.” The president also added that “companies share the common goal of finding innovative solutions that allow us to respond to the challenges that the sustainable development agenda puts on the table.”
The roadmap for the implementation of these objectives in companies must be based on joint action that serves to stop the challenges and address them in a global and transversal way. When developing a strategy based on the 2030 Agenda at a business level , we must keep in mind the axis of prosperity, that is, knowing that it is not about actions of altruism, charity or even CSR, but that at the end of the day it must be a win-win.
According to the former Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality, “this is the formula for businesses to progress and position themselves better in the international market, as well as to achieve a global consumption model that allows for the sustainable growth of society.”
Private enterprise, a key player in achieving the 2030 Agenda
Among the different actors involved in the sustainable development agenda set by the United Nations in 2015, according to the president, “ private companies are the ones that have best understood this aspect”. Large companies are, without a doubt, those with the greatest room for manoeuvre to be able to adapt to this framework, but SMEs must understand that “they are part of the market and that this is also their agenda”. It is not easy to carry out this transformation, but we must know that there is no Plan B when it comes to sustainable development: threats such as climate change, inequalities, the biodiversity crisis, etc., are present in our daily lives and we must face them with a clear roadmap.
Following previous meetings in which we had the participation of María Cortés Puch , Miguel Ángel Moratinos and Carlos Mataix , on this occasion we were lucky enough to have the presence of Leire Pajín, who has chaired REDS-SDSN since last December.
The aim of the meeting was to botim phone number data determine the role of companies in meeting the 2030 Agenda and what method they should follow to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in their business strategy.
Sustainable Development Goals SDG
According to Pajín, “innovation is the fundamental tool for achieving the 2030 Agenda and for developing a deeply transformative action plan that seeks global progress, taking into account the limits of the planet.” The president also added that “companies share the common goal of finding innovative solutions that allow us to respond to the challenges that the sustainable development agenda puts on the table.”
The roadmap for the implementation of these objectives in companies must be based on joint action that serves to stop the challenges and address them in a global and transversal way. When developing a strategy based on the 2030 Agenda at a business level , we must keep in mind the axis of prosperity, that is, knowing that it is not about actions of altruism, charity or even CSR, but that at the end of the day it must be a win-win.
According to the former Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality, “this is the formula for businesses to progress and position themselves better in the international market, as well as to achieve a global consumption model that allows for the sustainable growth of society.”
Private enterprise, a key player in achieving the 2030 Agenda
Among the different actors involved in the sustainable development agenda set by the United Nations in 2015, according to the president, “ private companies are the ones that have best understood this aspect”. Large companies are, without a doubt, those with the greatest room for manoeuvre to be able to adapt to this framework, but SMEs must understand that “they are part of the market and that this is also their agenda”. It is not easy to carry out this transformation, but we must know that there is no Plan B when it comes to sustainable development: threats such as climate change, inequalities, the biodiversity crisis, etc., are present in our daily lives and we must face them with a clear roadmap.