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Sustainable Development Goals in Corporate Reporting: What Matters to Investors?

July 17, 2018 By 3BLmedia

​Ten recommendations for companies to meet Investor needs in SDG reporting

​NEW YORK, July 17, 2018 /3BL Media/ — Ten recommendations intended to stimulate more investment to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were published today at the SDG Business Forum by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the United Nations Global Compact. The recommendations focus on how corporate reporting on the SDGs can best address investors’ information needs to help mobilize sustainable finance needed for the achievement of the SDGs. The three entities represent the world’s leading organizations in the areas of sustainability reporting, corporate responsibility and responsible investing.

The 17 SDGs, adopted by 193 Members States at the United Nations in 2015, provide a shared framework to address the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges. Achieving the SDGs requires commitment not only from governments and companies, but also from investors. It is estimated that by 2030, a total of US$90 trillion is needed to achieve the SDGs. Mobilizing this capital will require businesses to report on their actions to advance the Global Goals in a way that helps investors make informed decisions, directing resources towards investments with positive real-world impacts.

“The globally agreed SDGs are an articulation of the world’s most pressing environmental, social and economic issues. As such, they act as a definitive list of the material factors that investors should consider as part of their fiduciary duty,” says Fiona Reynolds, CEO of PRI.

There is also a strong business case for investing in opportunities aligned with the SDGs, and the benefits of meaningful sustainability disclosures are well established. The publication released today, In Focus: Addressing Investor Needs in Business Reporting on the SDGs, provides guidance to businesses on how to better ensure their SDG-related disclosures are useful for investors.

Says Tim Mohin, Chief Executive at GRI: “Investors want to see balanced reporting that showcases a company’s targets and progress against the SDGs. Companies should consider risk factors and impacts on people and the society in a focused manner and strive to put out concise, consistent, current and comparable data.”

In 2017, GRI and the UN Global Compact established a joint initiative to help businesses to measure and manage their impacts on the SDGs. This new publication on the investor angle of SDG reporting is the latest achievement of this effort. “There is a need for bold leadership from business to realize the SDGs, an ambitious agenda which seeks to transform our world by 2030. We hope this report will support businesses in their efforts to reach investors and help mobilize the sustainable finance needed for the achievement of the SDGs, paving the path to a world where no one is left behind,” says Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the UN Global Compact.

The new report complements an earlier publication titled An Analysis of the Goals and Targets (2017). Later this year, it will be followed by a practical guide to integrating the SDGs into companies’ reporting cycles. The report launched today is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Press contact
Peter Paul van de Wijs
Chief Communications Officer, GRI
Tel: +31 20 531 0000 | Mobile: +31 6 2313 2463
Email: vandewijs@globalreporting.org

Background
GRI and the UN Global Compact established in 2017 the ground-breaking collaborative initiative, Business Reporting on the SDGs, to accelerate corporate reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals. Over the years, GRI and the UN Global Compact together with other partners have been developing initiatives and guidance documents that mutually complement each other and create a body of knowledge.
  • For preliminary information on the SDGs for business, companies can consult the SDG Compass, developed by the UN Global Compact, GRI, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
  • The 2017 publication by GRI and the UN Global Compact, An Analysis of Goals and Targets, is a blueprint for businesses to measure and report on their impact and contribution to the SDG targets. This tool was the first step towards the greater ambition to develop a harmonized set of disclosures for businesses to report on.
  • In 2017, GRI, the UN Global Compact and PRI launched the Stockholm Declaration. The 30 signatories with a combined total of over $1,3 trillion assets under management agreed to consider the SDGs a relevant framework as part of company dialogue; contribute to a set of well-defined and relevant reporting disclosures linked to the SDGs.

SOURCE: GRI

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Tweet me: Investors care about how companies advance the #GlobalGoals but they don’t always report the right information. @GRI_Secretariat, @PRI_News and @globalcompact issue 10 recommendations for #business to meet investor needs in #SDGreporting – new publication: http://bit.ly/2upc8Ra

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