United Nations 17 SDG's
The Sustainable Development Goals as a blueprint for sustainable investing
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Collectively, these 17 goals, with 169 underlying targets and over 200 indicators, are to be achieved by the year 2030 and aim to ‘free humanity from poverty, secure a healthy planet for future generations, and build peaceful, inclusive societies as a foundation for ensuring lives of dignity for all’.¹ Although the SDGs are part of an intergovernmental agreement, they formally call upon the private sector to contribute to their achievement.
Their universal nature, their relevance for the public, private and civil-society sectors, and their detailed outlining of the world’s most urgent sustainable development objectives in a concrete set of goals with underlying targets, makes the SDGs a useful blueprint for sustainable investing. Understanding how companies impact the SDGs enables creating investment strategies that allocate capital towards companies that contribute to the SDGs, while avoiding financing those companies that undermine progress.
¹ UN(2017).The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017. New York: United Nations.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Collectively, these 17 goals, with 169 underlying targets and over 200 indicators, are to be achieved by the year 2030 and aim to ‘free humanity from poverty, secure a healthy planet for future generations, and build peaceful, inclusive societies as a foundation for ensuring lives of dignity for all’.¹ Although the SDGs are part of an intergovernmental agreement, they formally call upon the private sector to contribute to their achievement.
Their universal nature, their relevance for the public, private and civil-society sectors, and their detailed outlining of the world’s most urgent sustainable development objectives in a concrete set of goals with underlying targets, makes the SDGs a useful blueprint for sustainable investing. Understanding how companies impact the SDGs enables creating investment strategies that allocate capital towards companies that contribute to the SDGs, while avoiding financing those companies that undermine progress.
¹ UN(2017).The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017. New York: United Nations.
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Using the 17 Sustainability Goals as a guide, our core mandated areas of focus are to be:
2 - Zero hunger 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy 11 - Sustainable Cities and communities 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production 13 - Climate Action 14 - Life Below Water 15 - Life on Land |
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