The Good Life Goals focus on the personal actions that everyone can take to support each of the 17 SDGs. They were created to be relevant, easily understood and accessible to individuals all around the world. Although focused on individual actions, this campaign offers some great opportunities for business.

The Good Life Goals can provide companies with valuable clarity into the ways the SDGs link to the actions, activities and lifestyles of their customers and where products and services fit into that picture. As a result, the Good Life Goals can also be leveraged to channel new product development in support of the SDGs. Exploring the linkages between people’s day-to-day lives and the SDGs will help businesses to identify innovation opportunities capable of offering better, more sustainable, lifestyles to their customers. Finally, the Goals provide companies with a simple tool that they can use to enhance awareness of the SDGs among their own staff and promote a corporate culture that is aligned with the 2030 agenda…

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Every individual action has the vital role in achieving the ambitions of the SDGs.

The micro library project “Micro Libraries” by Daliana and Florian, who successfully became finalists of the global LafargeHolcim Awards, is a form of minimalist and environmentally friendly construction concept as a means to broaden the public. On the same occasion, Andi Subagio also conveyed the importance of building by maintaining local values in the present.

As the winner of the Next Generation category for the Asia Pacific Region, Andi Subagio had the opportunity to attend the International LafargeHolcim Next Generation Lab Award in Mexico in September. During the session, the winners of the Next Generation category from all over the world were invited to exchange ideas in developing the concept of sustainable development.

Meanwhile, Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann, SHAU, Bandung, Indonesia are the winners of the Silver Award in the Asia Pacific Region. They created “Micro Libraries – Micro Library” in Bandung to encourage informal education by encouraging reading and community interest throughout Indonesia. Their success in the Asia Pacific region has led SHAU to become a finalist at the Global LafargeHolcim Awards competition.

“We are very proud of the achievements achieved by SHAU in the LafargeHolcim Awards competition at the regional and global levels. “To reach that stage, of course it takes a very big effort to get through all the challenges,” said Oepoyo Prakoso of Sustainable Development Manager of Holcim Indonesia.

Read more on:   www.industry.co.id/read/42871/holcim-indonesia-lanjutkan-komitmennya-dukung-peningkatan-pendidikan-di-indonesia

Kedua, tim gugus tugas satu-data menyepakati untuk bekerjasama dengan tim STF dan bersedia untuk menginformasikan hasil pembahasan rencana kerjanya agar tim STF bisa bersinergi bekerjsama dengan gugus tugas satu-data. Selanjutnya, pertemuan lanjutan akan diselenggarakan untuk mengidentifikasi masukkan para anggota STF terkait penetapan areal HCV dan HCS berikut juga rencana untuk audiensi ke Kementrian Perekonomian.
Pertemuan ditutup dengan kesepakatan bahwa rapat akan diadakan pada minggu ketiga setiap dua bulan selama selama satu tahun kedepan. Tiga topik utama yang telah disepakati oleh para anggotanya untuk menjadi pembahasan dalam forum rapat adalah Akses Terhadap Pendanaan (Access to Finance), Legalitas Lahan(Land Legality) dan Isu seputar Kawasan Ekonomi Esensial (KEE).

IBCSD officially launch the SDGs Working Group on Sept 6th 2018. The Working Group developed as a platform for the members to help achieve the targets on the 17 Goals of SDGs. This collaborative action has all the support from private sectors and also the government.

As part of important stakeholders, private sector is strategically encouraged and needed to be involved in the process.

In response to private sector willingness to contribute during the process, IBCSD held series of dialogues inviting representatives from the central goverment, local government (Regency of Siak and Musi, Banyuasin), private companies, business associations and non-governmental organizations.

The discussions are focusing into the issues of regulation and mechanism in the one map policy process.

Through these positive and extensive discussion, the working group, named Kamar Tengah, laid a strong foundation both on enabling regulation and mechanism for private sector to further work together and contribute in the implementing process of One Map Policy.

The Guide offers a standardized framework to support businesses along the forest products value chain in identifying, measuring, and valuing their impacts and dependencies on natural capital. A clearer understanding of this complex relationship with nature will inform better decision-making, strategy and communication.

To ensure broad endorsement and uptake by the sector, the content of the Guide was developed through an extensive engagement process with key stakeholders from across all continents. Eight leading businesses have also applied the Guide to concrete cases of natural capital assessments, provided feedback on the content and shared their experience through case studies.

The Guide is designed to inspire other businesses along the forest products value chain to experiment with natural capital assessments, re-think their relationship with nature and trigger action and meaningful conversations from the forests to the boardrooms.

For more information, please contact: Nicolas Jammes, WBCSD Communication Manager: [email protected]

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The main point of the workshop is to help the SMEs to learn on how to develop a more responsible business, their own way. To do that, SMEs should determine and communicate the values adopted. Other thing they should do is to involve employees to start ‘seeing’ resource efficiency and get better on it. Then, trying to reduce carbon footprint is ahead of them. After that, measure the results and impacts to get evidence of environmental and social performance is also important so it can be used to differentiate a product and attract more customers. Last but not least, SMEs could start small with the concept of ‘Re-use’ in every compatible aspect in their industry.

Of course enlighten the SMEs is not something easy. They first should have the awareness to start evaluate their own business, regarding sustainability. Therefore, IBCSD together with GRI come up with a program called Corporate Sustainability Report for Competitive Business. This program designed for IBCSD’s member companies to help their SMEs supplier to understand and start doing sustainability report on an online platform, so it would be easier for the company too to compile their data and develop their own SR. For more info around the program, please contact us through email on [email protected].

To assist in the process of engagement, a space or communications forum is needed that allows non-governmental parties in government-run KSP and JIGN processes to support a single map acceleration policy, and be specifically asked to assist:
1) Strengthening the policy of one map in the management and supervision of the environment
2) Supporting open government policy
3) Encourage effective and efficient private (non-governmental) involvement of the private sector (non-government actors)

To resume the discussion, IBCSD held a second Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as a follow-up to the first FGD. The FGD was held on Thursday, July 16, 2018 at 8.30 – 12.30 at Mercantile Club, Jakarta and participated by private companies, business associations and non-governmental organizations and central and local government representatives, with the following objectives:
1) Discussion related to the regulation and mechanism of involvement of non-governmental parties, especially private parties, in the KSP process and JIGN mechanism in the communications space between the government, private, and non-governmental organizations;
2) Discussion on key issues in private sector involvement in KSP and JIGN processes (data confidentiality, data sharing protocol);
3) Proposed establishment of working group to explore & find road map related to key issues in private sector involvement in KSP and JIGN process.