The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Multipliers Handbook offers a detailed description of how to prepare, promote and facilitate an SDGs Training of Multipliers or an SDG implementation workshop using Gaia Education’s SDGs Implementation Flashcards.
The intention behind offering this handbook is to make it easy for participants in a SDG Training of Multipliers to step into the role of a multiplier and to feel confident in offering trainings and implementation workshops to their business team, in their organisation, in local community centres and town halls, or in schools and universities.
The well structured training flow (as detailed in the handbook) along with the flashcards enable facilitators to let the participants — who know more about their particular context than the facilitator might — do most of the creative work. The role of the facilitator is more to set people up to have these co-creative conversations and help them harvest and deepen into strategies to implement the results of their creative SDG brainstorming.
The handbook outlines who the training is for, how it can be adapted to different contexts, a training materials check-list, how to set up the workshop space, and desired outcomes for the training.
The handbook contains two detailed workshop scripts for a day-long and a half-day SDGs Training of Multipliers/SDG implementation workshops. Each with a step-by-step list of what exercises to facilitate in what sequence and how to do so. In addition to that the handbook has recently been updated, in form of stand along Addenda to the manual, to also include further instructions and guidance on how to adapt and use the materials in schools, universities and with local public bodies (e.g. local councils, community groups, but also NGOs, and SMEs).
El presente trabajo tiene como principal objetivo evaluar el nivel de compromiso con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de las grandes empresas españolas a partir de la información contenida en sus Estados de Información No Financiera (EINF) y las cartas de sus presidentes e identificar los posibles factores explicativos asociados a la propia organización. Para ello se ha contado con una muestra equilibrada de 58 compañías españolas, 29 cotizadas y 29 no cotizadas, en el ejercicio 2019. Los resultados obtenidos ponen de relieve: i) la mayor preocupación que despiertan los ODS entre las empresas expuestas en los mercados bursátiles y aquellas que son de mayor tamaño; ii) la importancia de contar con consejos de administración diversos, que integren el mayor número de intereses posibles así como aquellos valores y principios que se atribuyen de forma intrínseca a las mujeres; y iii) el mayor énfasis en aquellos ODS relacionados con aquellas temáticas ya conocidas por este tipo de organizaciones, gracias a su mayor experiencia en el reporting no financiero, publicando documentos como los informes de responsabilidad social corporativa o las memorias de sostenibilidad.
El informe “Desarrollo Sostenible en las empresas del IBEX 35: análisis del 2024" ofrece un análisis exhaustivo sobre los avances de las empresas que conforman el principal índice bursátil español en términos de sostenibilidad empresarial. Este informe analiza el grado de integración de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) en las estrategias corporativas de estas empresas y cómo están contribuyendo a la Agenda 2030.
Y es que, como revela este estudio, el compromiso con la sostenibilidad sigue creciendo, con el 97% de las empresas del IBEX 35 incorporando los ODS en su estrategia. Sin embargo, aún queda trabajo por hacer, especialmente en lo que respecta a establecer objetivos cuantificables y medibles, donde solo el 66% ha dado ese paso crucial. Además, el 86% de las empresas han incluido la sostenibilidad en sus planes de remuneración y el 77% alinea sus programas de acción social y voluntariado con los ODS.
The circular economy (CE) has been identified as a critical strategy to contribute to sustainable development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda, being one of the biggest challenges for society in general and organisations in particular. Hence, various methods have been developed in recent years to measure the level of circularity of organisations, such as methodologies, indicators, metrics and CE tools.
Universities, as education, research and community service organisations, play a key role in the promotion of and transition to the CE. Therefore, they require methods that enable them to quantify and monitor their level of circularity. However, it has been shown that CE methods developed for organisations are not suitable for such complex institutions, and, to date, no sector-specific methods have been developed.
In this context, it has become necessary to develop a useful method to quantify and monitor the current level of circularity, assess its progress and facilitate decision-making on circularity that addresses the specific needs of this type of organisation. Thus, a set of 82 CE indicators and their metrics, specific to universities, has been proposed. They have been implemented in an Excel spreadsheet tool called CExUNV, in order to promote and facilitate their use. In addition, 41 improvement actions have been suggested to guide and assist universities in their progress towards CE.