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STS461 Maciej T.
Enterprise action on the global goals by Global goal activities by target, resources
specific efforts and waste
Own goods and services
Reduce food waste (2.1)
Research and
development
Investment plans Reduce waste/pollution (11.6)
Procurement
policies/import
Efficient material consumption
Environment/resources/ (12.2)
climate
HR policies
Increase recycling (12.5)
Anti-corruption policies
0 10 20 30 40 50
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Pct.
Pct.
Global goal activities by target, Co2, Global goals by target, others
energy and water
Reduce waste water (6.3) Reduce pollution relating to persons (3.9)
Increase water efficiency (6.4) Reduce forced and child labour (8.7)
Increase renewable energy (7.2) Promote labour rights and safe work (8.8)
Enhance R&D and upgrade technologies (9.5)
Increase energy efficiency (7.3)
Reduce emissions of greenhouse Cheap medicine in developing countries (3.b)
gases (9.4)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Pct.
Pct.

4. Discussion and Conclusion
There is still a need for extensive work and consultations on the shape of
the SDG follow up on private sector activities. This follow up is very complex
both due to the (lack of) data availability and the differences between
companies. The question to be posed here is what can be changed in order to
improve data availability. One of the possibilities considered could be to
discuss whether it is possible to streamline company CSR reports, so that they
live up to a specific set of requirements and are comparable at least to some
extent. Furthermore, it was also considered whether existing (not only
statistical) data streams could be captured at different sources, e.g. from
company reports to stock exchanges? And finally, how can the follow up on
company activities relating to the SDG be shaped in a way that is also has
appeal to investors?
The next issue is the number of stakeholders in the attempts to follow up
on private sector activities’ relating to the SDG. The coordination between the
areas of different stakeholders, in the view of the author of this paper, does
not seem predominant which could result in either fragmented or overlapping
follow up.
The final issue is to what extent pursuing of a goal of ‘doing no harm’ and
‘positive pursuits’ can be followed up on, taking the existing data availability
into account? And if not, is it possible to create comparable data across
individual industries?

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