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1 Antwerp-ITCCO Action Learning for Sustainability How to future-proof your social business by integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Peter Wollaert Brussel,

2 UNITAR.ORG & ANTWERP-ITCCO.ORG (CIFAL-FLANDERS.ORG) 2

3 NEW LOGO CIFAL FLANDERS (LAUNCH NEW WEBSITE: ) 3

4 UN PROTECT, RESPECT AND REMEDY FRAMEWORK 4 UN Special Representative John Ruggie proposed a framework on business & human rights to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2008, resting on three pillars: 1. the state duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; 2. the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and 3. greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial.

5 UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ( ) 5

6 ACTION LEARNING SEMINAR: ETHICAL BANKING 6

7 ACTION LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY: FASHION INDUSTRY 7

8 ACTION LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY: DIAMOND SECTOR 8

9 ACTION LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY: PILOT PROJECT INDIA 9

10 ACTION LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY: PORT OF ANTWERP 10

11 CELEBRATING FIRST UN DAY IN ANTWERP (OCTOBER 2014) 11

12 SOCIAL (SOCIETAL) RESPONSIBILITIES 12 Individual Personal SR Organisation Corporate SR Structure / Product or Service / HRM + Supply Chain Sector Sectoral SR Region Global Political SR (City / Country) Multilateral SR (UN Norms)

13 3 MAIN QUESTIONS What is the business of business? Is your business part of the problem or part of the solution? How to future proof your business? 13

14 1. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Social Business & Next Generation Business Models 2. Smart & Sustainable Cities

15 STATEMENT 15 no sustainable world = achieve the 'UN Sustainable Development Goals' in 2030 without smart & sustainable cities = integration of the smart component in sustainable city-models and no smart & sustainable cities without future-proof business models = Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Social Business & Next Generation Business Models

16 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 16

17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 17

18 DUAL GOALS ON GLOBAL SCALE: HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & LOW ECOLOGICAL IMPACT 18

19 Behaviour Change Social Innovation Technological Innovation

20 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: SOCIAL INNOVATION 20

21 GLOCALISATION: LEVEL PLAYING FIELD & TRANSITION 21

22 DIGITALIZATION: A SMART WORLD 22

23 1. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Social Business & Next Generation Business Models 2. Smart & Sustainable Cities

24 8 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS ( ) 24

25 POST-2015 AGENDA ( ) 25

26 GLOBALGOALS.ORG 26

27 17 UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ( ) 27 Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3 Goal 4 Goal 5 Goal 6 Goal 7 Goal 8 Goal 9 Goal 10 Goal 11 Goal 12 Goal 13 Goal 14 Goal 15 Goal 16 Goal 17 End poverty in all its forms everywhere End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Reduce inequality within and among countries Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

28 28

29 SDG COMPASS 29

30 1. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Social Business & Next Generation Business Models 2. Smart & Sustainable Cities

31 WORLD POPULATION

32

33 SHANGHAI

34 BY 2050, 70% OF THE WORLD S POPULATION WILL BE URBAN 34

35 SMART CITIES: MELBOURNE PRINCIPLES 35 The 10 Principles are: 1. Provide a long-term vision for cities based on: sustainability; intergenerational, social, economic and political equity; and their individuality; 2. Achieve long-term economic and social security; 3. Recognise the intrinsic value of biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and protect and restore them; 4. Enable communities to minimise their ecological footprint; 5. Build on the characteristics of ecosystems in the development and nurturing of healthy and sustainable cities; 6. Recognise and build on the distinctive characteristics of cities, including their human and cultural values, history and natural systems, 7. Empower people and foster participation; 8. Expand and enable cooperative networks to work towards a common, sustainable future; 9. Promote sustainable production and consumption, through appropriate use of environmentally sound technologies and effective demand management; 10. Enable continual improvement, based on accountability, transparency and good governance.

36 SMART CITIES 36

37 EU MARKETPLACE ON SMART CITIES & COMMUNITIES 37

38 BARCELONA 38

39 SMART CITIES

40 VRIND 2014: FLANDERS REGIONAL INDICATORS 40

41 INDICATORS.BE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN BELGIUM 41

42 1. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Social Business & Next Generation Business Models 2. Smart & Sustainable Cities

43 1. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 3. Next Generation Business Models 2. Social Business

44 John ELKINGTON (UK) 1977: Triple Bottom Line

45 Edward FREEMAN (USA) 1984: Stakeholder Management 45 A stakeholder is a person, group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization's actions, objectives and policies. Stakeholder Engagement Standard (SES) AA /index.html

46 STAKEHOLDER SIPEF

47 METHOD: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT STANDARD (SES) AA

48 MATERIALITY MATRIX (GRI) 48 G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines Enabling all organisations to report the sustainability information that matters.

49 CRADLE TO CRADLE: CIRCULAR ECONOMY 49

50 CSR REFERENCE FRAMEWORK BELGIUM (2006): DEFINITION CSR CSR is a process in which companies voluntarily strive for improvement on a business as well as societal level by systematically including economic, environmental and social considerations in an integrated and coherent manner in the entire business operations, in which consultation with stakeholders of the company forms part of this process.

51 BUSINESS ETHICS 51 Code of Conduct or Ethics Charter Integrity Management & Dilemma Training

52 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: GUBERNA.BE Corporate Governance Tripod: aandeelhouders, bestuurders en management + stakeholders 52

53 FINANCIAL POLICY & SRI: ETHICAL FINANCIAL PRODUCTS 53

54 Veerle FOLLENS (BE) 2014: Maatschappelijk verantwoord vastgoed 54

55 BEST PRACTICE: BLUEGATE IN PORT OF ANTWERP 55

56 ECOVER: FUTURE-PROOF FACTORY IN FRANCE

57 FACILITY MANAGEMENT: ACCESSIBILITY 57

58 NATUURPUNT: COMPANIES 58

59 HRM: INTEGRATE PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY 59

60 60

61 DIVERSITY & MIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP 61

62 INTEGRATE PRINCIPLES COOPERATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP 62

63 SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT 63

64 SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY & LOGISTICS: S.T.O.P. PRINCIPE 64

65 65

66 FIRST EDITION (2009) BEST TEXTBOOK OF THE YEAR

67 CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP 67

68 68

69 INTEGRATED REPORTING 69

70 INTERNATIONAAL: OECD GUIDELINES FOR MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES 70 OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Recommendations for Responsible Business Conduct in a Global Context 1. Concepts and Principles 2. General Policies 3. Disclosure 4. Human Rights 5. Employment and Industrial Relations 6. Environment 7. Combating Bribery, Bribe, Solicitation and Extortion 8. Consumer Interests 9. Science and Technology 10 Competition 11.Taxation

71 TOOL: CSR RISK CHECKER 71

72 UN GLOBAL COMPACT 72

73 C.K. PARAHALAD (India) & Stuart HART (USA) 2002: Base Of the Pyramid 73 Access to Energy for the Base of the Pyramid Solar Cooking

74 UN PROTECT, RESPECT AND REMEDY FRAMEWORK 74 UN Special Representative John Ruggie proposed a framework on business & human rights to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2008, resting on three pillars: 1. the state duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; 2. the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and 3. greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial.

75 NGOs ARE HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS COMPANIES SEEN AS HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS 75

76 ACCOUNTABILITY & HUMAN RIGHTS: UNILEVER Human Rights Report 76

77 77

78 78 MVOVLAANDEREN.BE

79 79

80 1. Corporate Governance 2. Market Policy 3. Leadership 1. Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) 2. Fair tax 3. Accounting 1. Diversity 2. Lifelong Learning 3. Work Travel 4. Health and Safety 5. Work-Life Balance 6. Bonus Policy 7. Wage tension Human Resource Management Management and Board Finance Production and Logistics 1. Environtmental Policy 2. CO 2 Policy 3. Circular Economy 4. Animal Welfare 5. Biodiversity 6. Transport 7. Responsible Products and Services Public Affairs Research and Development 1. Stakeholder Management 2. Corporate Citizenship Facilities Marketing and Communication 1. Sustainable Business Case 2. Innovation 3. Ecodesign 1. Location and implantation 2. Suistainable building and renovation 3. Procurement Policy 4. Catering 5. Events 1. Consumer Interests 2. Sustainability Reporting 3. Sustainable Marketing Mix 4. Open communication

81 1. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 3. Next Generation Business Models 2. Social Business

82 SOCIAL BUSINESS 82 Muhammed YUNUS (Bangladesh) Founder of Microcredit and Microfinance concepts Grameen Danone: a Social Business

83 Pol BRACKE & Tom VAN WASSENHOVE (BE) 2015: Impactgedreven ondernemen 83

84 KRINGWINKEL 84

85 COOPERATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP 85

86 COÖPERATIEFVLAANDEREN.BE 86

87 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASHOKA FELLOWS IN FLANDERS Tobias Leenaert, EVA: Thursday Veggie Day Arnoud Raskin, Mobile School & Streetwize: Mobile School

88 SOCIALEINNOVATIEFABRIEK.BE 88

89 1. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 3. Next Generation Business Models 2. Social Business

90 CHALLENGE: BUSINESS MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY 90

91 DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY 91

92 Jan JONKER (NL) 2014: Nieuwe Business Modellen 92

93 BLUE ECONOMY 93

94 Michael PORTER (USA, 1947) 2011: Creating Shared Value (CSV) 94

95 SDG COMPASS 95

96 ACTION PLAN: BUILDING A FUTURE-PROOF SOCIAL BUSINESS Business Ethics: Ethical code, dilemmatraining and linking personal and professional values Corporate Governance & Social Governance Social Economy: social inclusion Cooperative Entrepreneurship Fairtrade: fair price including True Cost Socially Responsible Investment (SRI): ethics in financial policy Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Triple Bottom Line & Stakeholder Panel Circular Economy: Cradle-to-Cradle Migrant Entrepreneurship: diversity Consumer Rights: helpdesk Corporate Citizenship: solidarity GRI and Integrated Reporting : say what you do and do what you say Value-driven Entrepreneurship: Spirituality & Interfaith Dialogue UN Sustainable Development Goals: Poverty Alleviation & Global Level Playing Field Social Profit (not-for-profit): Human Rights Entreprise = the future proof company creating shared value(s) 96

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