Getting Started

TOOLS

CEO Guide to the Sustainable Development Goals

- Guide -

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.

SDG Reporting Challenge 2018

- PwC Benchmarking Tool -

An analysis of corporate and sustainability reports of 729 companies across 21 territories and 6 industries by PwC. The data can be used by business to compare with others in the same sector or geography and used to enhance future communication about SDG-related performance.

2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals

- Progress Map -

A World Bank resource that includes more than 180 maps and charts showing progress towards the 17 SDGs. “The World Bank Group authorizes the use of this material subject to the terms and conditions on its website, Legal.”

SDG Business Hub

- Resource Hub -

An easy-to-use, centralised location to find developments and trends, insights and other resources to assist companies to engage with the SDGs. The site also includes some country-specific reports.

Getting started with the SDGs in Universities: A guide for universities, higher education institutions, and the academic sector

- Guide -

A guide from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (Australia/Pacific) to help universities deepen their engagement with the SDGs.

The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World

- Guide -

A down-to-earth introduction to the SDGs, with tips on how all of us can adopt changes that will make a difference.

SDG Compass

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A practical tool for companies seeking to align their operations with the SDGs, and be able to measure and manage their contribution. SDG Compass was developed by GRI, the UN Global Compact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Measuring Impact: A Business Approach

- Framework Report -

A guide to integrating social values into core business operations and bottom-line decision making from the Initiative for Global Development.

Corporate Citizenship

- Resources Hub -

A suite of resources and information for companies looking to assess and improve their corporate responsibility performance. The website includes case studies, looks at risks and opportunities arising from social, environmental, economic and other trends, benchmarking, identification of material issues, strategy and stakeholder relations.

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.

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.

‘Every Australian’s Business’: A Guide for Senior Leaders

- Guide -

A guide from the Global Compact Network Australia to help Australian business leaders deepen their engagement with the SDGs.

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB)

- Benchmarking Tool -

How 101 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies fare on a set of human rights indicators. CHRB seeks to stimulate competition between corporates and drive change. (The CHRB project is owned by Corporate Human Rights Benchmark Ltd.)

The Poverty Footprint

- Assessment Tool -

An assessment tool that helps companies and civil society partners understand their impact on poverty. It promotes greater corporate transparency, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and can be used to develop pro-poor business strategies. This Poverty Footprint was produced by Oxfam in collaboration with the UN Global Compact.

‘Every Australian’s Business’: A Guide for Employees

- Guide -

A guide from the Global Compact Network Australia to help Australian employees deepen their engagement with the SDGs.

Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform

- Guide -

A UN site detailing information about the goals, their development and implementation.

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

Tracking Australia’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals

- Australian Government Paper -

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.

Transforming Australia: SDG Progress Report

- National Sustainable Development Council – Report -

Data and evidence on Australia’s progress towards achieving the SDGs, compiled by the National Sustainable Development Council.

Almost everything you know about impact investing is wrong

- Stanford Social Innovation Review – Article -

Measuring Effectiveness: Roadmap to Assessing System-level and SDG Investing

- The Investment Integration Project – Report -

A roadmap to help investors ensure they are moving beyond generating environmental or social impact through individual market transactions and alignment with broader system-level goals, and are also influencing related system-level change.

How to report on the SDGs: What good looks like and why it matters

- KPMG Rerport -

A KPMG report that seeks to promote quality criteria around SDG reporting. The report aims to help investors, asset managers and ratings agencies understand what SDG reporting they should be looking for and requesting from companies on their radar.

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).

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

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

ESG in private equity: How to write a responsible investment policy

- BSR Report -

A March 2019 report offering a “straightforward approach, principles, and tips to use in developing a responsible investment policy.”

A Global Compact for Sustainable Development: Business and the Sustainable Development Goals

- UN Global Compact – Brochure -

An introduction to the SDGs and the role of business. It explores how the UN Global Compact works with companies to set corporate goals inspired by the SDGs, stimulating innovation, investment, engagement and ultimately performance.

Working in an SDG economy; Aligning business activity to the Global Goals

- PwC Report -

PwC argues the commercial case for sustainability. Environmental and social responsibility aren’t just a matter of risk and reputation management, but rather a core driver of how smart, modern companies must develop, offering opportunities to be product, service and market leaders, it says.

Australian SDGs Summit: On the Road to Implementation

- Outcomes Report -

A report on the inaugural Australian SDGs Summit, co-hosted in 2016 by a coalition of peak bodies – the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA), and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Australia/Pacific.

Australian SDGs Summit 2018: Unlocking the Opportunities of the Sustainable Development Goals

- Outcomes Report -

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).

PODCASTS, WEBCASTS AND MORE

Why Sustainable Development Goals should be in your business plan

- EY – Blog -

EY argues that organisations can harness the SDGs to “drive growth, address risk, attract capital and focus on purpose.”

The global goals we’ve mde progress on – and the ones we haven’t

- Michael Green - TED Talk -

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.

To meet the SDGs by 2030, we must attract new streams of impact capital

- Rockefeller Foundation Blog -

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.

Rethinking Finance for Sustainable Development; Challenges and Progress

- UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - Blog -

Addresses the question of how the world can finance such an ambitious agenda as the one posed by the SDGs.

Walking the talk: Assessing companies’ progress from SDG rhetoric to action

- Oxfam Discussion Paper -

A 36-page Oxfam review of SDG engagement by 76 of the world’s largest companies. It finds that while uptake of the SDGs by companies is high, there is little evidence that the SDGs have changed sustainability strategies with regards to priorities, ambition or transparency. Oxfam suggests how business can more effectively engage. Published September 2018.

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)

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.

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ARTICLES & REPORTS

- Australian Government Paper -

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- Stanford Social Innovation Review – Article -

- The Investment Integration Project – Report -

- KPMG Rerport -

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

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

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- UN Global Compact – Brochure -

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PODCASTS, WEBCASTS AND MORE

- EY – Blog -

- Michael Green - TED Talk -

- Rockefeller Foundation Blog -

- UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - Blog -

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- Centre for Global Development - Podcast -

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