S&P Dow Jones Indices Report features Earth Security's framework which highlights the need for new economic growth models for sustainable growth within planetary limits. The framework calls for more interconnected analysis beyond prevailing linear financial and ESG analysis.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a moral imperative and an economic necessity. – Anne Simpson, Investment Director, Sustainability, CalPERS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Momentum is building within the private sector to achieve the U.N.’s SDGs; however, current progress is insufficient to achieve the goals.
- A key challenge lies in identifying fit-for-purpose metrics to inform SDG-aligned business activities and capital allocation by corporate finance teams or market participants.
- Although financial institutions are committed to directing capital into SDG-aligned strategies, many reporting frameworks are still in the early stages of maturity.
- Proposed best practice criteria for measuring and disclosing private sector SDG outcomes will help to scale up private sector SDG- aligned actions in ways that are robust and measurable against the SDG targets of countries.
- Quantified assessment and disclosure of total value (financial, social, and environmental) will help private sector participants move from awareness to meaningful action on SDG-aligned business and capital allocation.
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