Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Sustainable economic growth requires society to create conditions that allow the whole working age population to have quality jobs which stimulate the economy while not harming the environment.
This SDG has several 2030 targets to which every company can contribute. These targets aim to increase global resource efficiency in consumption and production and decouple economic growth from environmental degradation; achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, with equal pay for equal work; eradicate slavery, forced labour and child labour; and protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers.
Every Future-Fit Business must avoid slowing down progress toward this SDG by:
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Using natural resources that derive from sources that respect communities, ecosystems and animals.
This ensures that any natural resources the business relies on (e.g. those embedded in its products) are obtained without degrading the environment (e.g. by using recycled materials to reduce demand for virgin resources).
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Procurement of goods and services does not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s supply chain affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its supply chain, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Safeguarding employee health and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that workplaces across the value chain are conducive to the mental and physical wellbeing of all workers.
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Paying its employees a living wage and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that workers across the value chain are fairly and sustainably compensated.
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Offering its employees fair employment terms and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that workers across the value chain are not subject to bonded, slave or child labor, and that they can expect decent working conditions (including the right to collective bargaining, paid holiday, parental leave and reasonable working hours).
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Investing in assets that do not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s investments affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its financial assets, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Any Future-Fit Business may actively speed up progress toward this SDG by:
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Ensuring others contribute less to water stress.
Enabling people to meet their needs using less water, improves resource efficiency in consumption and production, and contributes to decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
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Ensuring others depend less on inadequately-managed natural resources.
Increasing resource efficiency reduces resource demand and thereby the negative impacts associated with the harvesting or mining of new resources.
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Ensuring others generate less waste.
Reducing waste generation in consumption and production contributes to decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
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Ensuring waste is reclaimed and repurposed.
Reclaiming past waste to be repurposed as production inputs increases the productive life of materials, decreasing the need for virgin resources and thereby contributing to decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
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Ensuring more people are healthy and safe from harm.
Eliminating forced labour and child labor and increasing workplace safety ensure more people are healthy and safe from harm.
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Ensuring people's capabilities are strengthened.
Increasing the proportion of young people engaged in productive activities and strengthening the capacity of financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all, while also build peoples capacity to weather shocks and promote inclusive economic growth.
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Ensuring more people have access to economic opportunity.
Increasing the creation of decent jobs and entrepreneurship contributes to full and productive employment.
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Ensuring individual freedoms are upheld for more people.
Eliminating discriminatory practices ensures equal pay for equal work, thereby promoting an inclusive and equitable economy.
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Strengthening infrastructure in pursuit of future-fitness.
Developing quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening governance in pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring governance is accountable, participatory, responsive, responsible and transparent removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening market mechanisms in pursuit of future-fitness.
Overcoming technological, knowledge and incentive barriers through the use of market mechanisms removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Aligning social norms to increasingly support the pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring social norms align with socially and environmentally responsible behaviour removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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