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What we do
Manage your impact.
SDG Impact is a UNDP flagship initiative, working to accelerate private sector contributions towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Our objective is to help businesses and investors embed sustainability and the SDGs into their decision-making practices and direct capital to where it can make the most difference to people and planet. We do this through two core streams of work, the first being the SDG Impact Standards and SDG Investor Maps.
Generating country-level data and insights about SDG-enabling investment opportunities. This work targets the gap between interest in investing in SDGs and the business models that could provide investable opportunities.
The SDG Impact Standards are independent voluntary management standards designed to guide businesses and investors on their sustainability journeys. Learn more about the SDG Impact Standards.
SDG Impact Standards Assurance Framework and SDG Impact Seal are the fundamental pieces in the ecosystem to strengthen impact integrity and counter impact-washing in the private sector which are due to launch soon. Learn more about the SDG Impact Assurance Framework and SDG Impact Seal.
Visit the Japanese language website for the SDG Impact Standards
Targeting the demand for sustainability and impact management upskilling across the market. Learn more about the courses SDG Impact has developed with partners to support the adoption of the SDG Impact Standards.
WHY THIS MATTERS
We aim to see our
world
radically
changed, for good.
Achieving the SDGs will create a world that is more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous. In order to get there, investors must adapt their strategies to deliver not only financial results, but positive social and environmental outcomes as well.
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Sustainable Development Goals?
ACHIEVING THE SDGs PROVIDES…
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MORE JOBS
2000000
jobs created —90% in developing countries
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MORE OPPORTUNITIES
$12 trillion
worth of market opportunities opened
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MORE VALUE
2-3x growth
compared to average GDP growth over the next 10-15 years
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Testimonials
We are pleased to share a testimonial for our SDG Impact Standards issued by the Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I), which is Japan’s largest rating agency established in 1998. Please learn more about R&I on its website.
Enterprises, investors, and public entities in Japan welcome the birth of these innovative standards. “How can an entity demonstrate the contributions it is making to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their entirety?”. A solution lies in the SDG Impact Standards for Enterprises by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Based on the concepts set forth in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the draft SDG Impact Standards for Enterprise by UNDP, Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I) announced a third-party opinion evaluating the “Kobe 2025 Vision” of the city of Kobe towards its contributions to the SDGs.
R&I sees a great promise in UNDP’s SDG Impact Standards. Through the case of the city of Kobe, R&I learned that the SDG Impact Standards can be the global language required for entities to demonstrate their philosophy and vision. The SDG Impact Standards incorporate universal concepts such as stakeholder engagement and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. They further provide external evaluators a dynamic measure focusing on an enterprise’s or investor’s internal processes and decision-making practices towards the SDGs, beyond a simplistic assessment based on just check boxes.
日本の企業、自治体、投資家はこのイノベーティブな基準の誕生を歓迎しています。「組織全体がSDGsに資するということを何とか表現できないものか？」彼らが捜していた答えがここにあります。R&Iは神戸市の「神戸2025ビジョン」に対して、国連の「持続可能な開発のための2030アジェンダ」とUNDPの「SDGインパクト基準（事業向け）」の草案で示された基本的な考え方をもとに、SDGsに資するとの第三者意見を発表しました。
R&IはSDGインパクト基準に大きな将来性を感じています。R&Iが神戸市の事例を通じて学んだのは、この基準は組織の精神や理念を語るグローバルな共通言語となりうることです。この基準はステークホルダーとの協働や国連のビジネスと人権に関する指導原則といった幾つかのユニバーサルな考え方を組み込んでいます。さらに外部評価者に対して、チェック項目への充足を判定するのではなく、組織の内部プロセスと意思決定の実践にフォーカスした動的な手法を提供しています。