The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Bondarenko, Marina (2020)
Bondarenko, Marina
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020111723096
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020111723096
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The importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been growing after the 2030 Agenda was adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The UN SDGs provide governments, companies, organizations, and citizens with a modern comprehensive framework on sustainable development, integrating all the three dimensions of sustainability – environmental, social and economic. Many companies, in Finland and around the world, have already chosen to align their sustainability actions with the UN SDGs.
The purpose of this thesis is to create a proposal for the commissioning company Kiilto on mapping their environmental actions against the most relevant UN SDGs, and thus to update and improve the company’s corporate social responsibility reporting practices. This is achieved by studying the theory of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, and knowledge base behind the UN SDGs, researching the practices of other industry players on SDG reporting and analyzing the actions of the commissioning company through the UN SDG perspective.
Kiilto has a strong record of environmental actions and mapping those against UN SDGs is a logical step forward in the company’s CSR and is in line with global sustainability trends. The results of the thesis contain recommendations for SDG referencing for the commissioning company.
The purpose of this thesis is to create a proposal for the commissioning company Kiilto on mapping their environmental actions against the most relevant UN SDGs, and thus to update and improve the company’s corporate social responsibility reporting practices. This is achieved by studying the theory of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, and knowledge base behind the UN SDGs, researching the practices of other industry players on SDG reporting and analyzing the actions of the commissioning company through the UN SDG perspective.
Kiilto has a strong record of environmental actions and mapping those against UN SDGs is a logical step forward in the company’s CSR and is in line with global sustainability trends. The results of the thesis contain recommendations for SDG referencing for the commissioning company.