The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) form an important framework in the world of sustainability and have grown into a new language for investors, companies, and governments. With all the advantages of the SDGs, we see that some topics are insufficiently covered by these 17 goals. For example, the SDGs contain no explicit reference to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersexual (LGBTI) rights in their goals and targets. Several countries did not want ‘gay rights’ to be included; this subject was “off the table”. Nevertheless, everyone agreed with the SDG’s motto: leave no one behind.
This is why we joined forces with Workplace Pride and Alliander to draw up the very first SDG LGBTI Manifesto, which has now been signed by various companies. With this manifesto, companies underline the importance of LGBTI inclusion in the workplace. We ask organizations to stand strong together for inclusion and diversity and to include LGBTI in the organization’s SDG approach.
This white or ‘Rainbow’ paper was created to provide organizations guidance on how to determine their maturity on LGBTI inclusion, how this is linked with the SDGs, and to provide them with an overview on possible next steps and goals. How and to what degree can LGBTI inclusion be integrated in their management approach? How do you get insight into where you stand and how you can improve and take your efforts further? In this light, we have developed a maturity model, for which the SDG Compass (developed by GRI), the UN Global Compact, and the WBSCD form the basis.
The SDG LGTI Manifesto and Rainbow Paper is a joint effort of Workplace Pride, Alliander, and Sustainalize and with the kind support of Shell.
Partner & EMEA Lead Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change, ERM
Companies have a responsibility to respect human rights, and to do so, they are required to exercise human rights with due diligence. Multiple pieces of legislation are currently being implemented for making human rights due diligence a mandatory process.
With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) published in the European Union’s Official Journal, we’d like to dive into the most recent changes, and how it affects businesses. Since publishing our last blog on CSRD updates, two major changes have taken place.
The EU Taxonomy differentiates between eligible and aligned activities. In this blog, we provide you with an overview of updated requirements, estimated timelines for your organization, and how we at Sustainalize/ERM can help guide you through the complexity of reporting in accordance with the EU Taxonomy – specifically focused on alignment.
On September 28th 2022 the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) launched the long-awaited addition to its expanding sector guidance portfolio. The Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) guidance was made publicly available to be used by industry leaders of land-intensive sectors. We have elaborated on the guidance.
This year, companies had to report on the EU Taxonomy for the first time, covering two of the mandatory environmental objectives climate change mitigation and adaptation. Sustainalize has analyzed the disclosures of approximately 35 AEX/AMX companies, investigating the responsivity of this new legislation.
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