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Your shortcut to practical tools, interesting reads and inventive ideas

These tools and information provide an introduction to the SDGs and how they might be applied by academia, civil society, business and governments.

Many more resources can be found by searching by goal or by industry sector, and can help identify where organisations intersect with the SDGs, why the SDGs matter, and the case for acting.

We welcome recommendations of additional resources that fit with our goal to be a repository of credible, useful and relevant resources and a platform for showcasing Australian actions related to the SDGs.

GCNA makes it clear that the website is providing links to resources developed by other organisations and that there is no affiliation between GCNA and the organisations which published these documents.

TOOLS

SDG Industry Matrix

- KPMG/UN Global Compact Resource -
A platform for showcasing specific and practical examples of actions within six different industries that aid progress on the SDGs. The industries profiled include: financial services; food, beverage and consumer goods; healthcare and life sciences; industrial manufacturing; transportation; and energy, natural resources and chemicals.
Part of SDG Business Hub, this guide helps translate SDG goals into business action. It argues that business engagement will enable companies to better manage risk, anticipate consumer demand, build positions in growth markets and strengthen supply chains, among other things.

UN SDG Action Campaign and Awards

- UN – Campaign -
A global campaign designed to acknowledge, showcase and celebrate leadership, innovation and creativity in relation to the SDGs and the sustainable development movement.

Impact Reporting & Investment Standards (IRIS)

- Performance Measurement Standards -
Generally accepted performance metrics used by leading impact investors to integrate social and environmental factors into investment decisions alongside risk and return.

ARTICLES & REPORTS

A report on the 2018 Australian Sustainable Development Goals Summit, held in March 2018 and co-hosted by a coalition of peak bodies in Australia – the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), Global Compact Network Australia, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Australia, New Zealand & Pacific, and the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA).
A report outlining the Australian Government’s approach to data for reporting the Sustainable Development Goals, and introducing the Reporting Platform on the SDGs global indicator framework.

‘Can government policies that drive strong economic outcomes for the private sector alleviate poverty?’

- Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) and RMIT University Report -

SDG Measurement and Disclosure by ASX150

- Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) and RMIT University Research Report -
This research looks at the ASX150’s annual reports for the 2018 reporting period and how they measure and report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

PODCASTS, WEBCASTS AND MORE

Financing the SDGs with Martin Chrisney – CGD Podcast

- Centre for Global Development - Podcast -
Martin Chrisney, Director of the International Development Assistance Services Institute at KPMG, discusses blended finance and development in this November 2018 podcast with the Center for Global Development. (Approx. 15 minutes)
Michael Green, part of the team behind the Social Progress Index, speaks at the “We the Future” day, hosted at the TED World Theater. This data-packed talk includes Green’s analysis on the steps each country has (or hasn’t) made on the SDGs, and new ideas on what needs to change.
EY argues that organisations can harness the SDGs to “drive growth, address risk, attract capital and focus on purpose.”
Dr Rajiv J Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, asks the question: How to close the gap between the cost of solving the world’s most critical problems – poverty, hunger, disease, inequality, climate change – and the available funds from the world’s philanthropic funds, and the global development and aid budgets of governments.

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