Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

This ensures that business operations do not undermine the ability of local communities to access fresh water for drinking and sanitation.

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. maintaining healthy soils and resource stocks).

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.

this ensures that business operations do not emit harmful substances into air (e.g. chemicals that impact people’s health), land (e.g. hazardous pesticides) and water (e.g. toxic spills).

This ensures that food and other biological waste is eliminated across the value chain (through prevention, reduction, reuse and recycling).

This ensures that customers have all relevant information necessary to make sustainable consumption choices.

Sustainable consumption and production aims to do more and better with less, increasing net welfare gains from economic activities that reduce resource use, degradation and pollution.

This ensures that products do not cause harm as a likely consequence of their use, and that products do not release substances that (a) directly impact people’s health, or (b) indirectly do so by disrupting ecosystems.

This ensures that end-of-life product components do not end up as waste, but rather as reusable resources, thus increasing resource efficiency in consumption.

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.