{"id":1587,"date":"2022-06-08T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as-schneider.blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2022-06-07T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:22:00","slug":"sustainable-development-goals-and-how-suppliers-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-can-contribute-to-their-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as-schneider.blog\/2022\/06\/08\/sustainable-development-goals-and-how-suppliers-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-can-contribute-to-their-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"How suppliers in the oil and gas industry can contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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How suppliers in the oil and gas industry can contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a unanimous call for action by all countries of the world to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. The philosophy behind the SGDs recognizes that ending poverty is intricately linked with strategies that promote economic growth and address a broad range of social needs including health, education, social protection, and job creation. These strategies must be formulated while tackling climate change and ensuring environmental protection. This article presents a broad overview of the 17 SGDs and how the oil and gas industry can contribute to the realization of these goals. The policies and initiatives of an internationally established valve supplier to the oil and gas industry, AS-Schneider, for the realization of the 17 SGDS are presented and discussed.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sustainable Development Goals identify the most urgent problems of the world. They form a basis for international commitment and cooperation to address the interrelated issues of climate change, management of the world\u2019s fragile natural resources, promotion of peace and inclusivity, reduction of inequality and ensuring prosperity of economies. Developed at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, SDGs identified challenges that we face as humanity. In 2015, a set of 17 global goals, related to the environment, politics and world economy were agreed upon through a vote to drive the transformation of the world during the period 2015-2030.<\/p>

The 17 SDGs are summarized below:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Source: www.sdgs.un.org\/goals<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Who are the Sustainability Goals for?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that governments have the primary responsibility for implementing the SDGs in their respective countries. Governments must ensure implementation follow-up and review over the implementation period, at the national, regional and global levels. SDG-16 emphasizes that governments must \u201cbuild effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels\u201d to achieve the SDGs.<\/p>

The implementation process of the SDGs is also called localizing the SDGs. This means that in addition to the government, universities, the industry, institutions, independent organizations and individual people must work separately and jointly for the achievement of one or several goals. While governments mainly implement the goals through legislation, they must also form partnerships with academia, industry and other independent organizations to find new ways of shortening the path towards these goals. Finally, coordination between governments at the international level is also crucial. The SDGs emphasize the need for more well-to-do countries to partner with countries with access to limited financial resources.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Note:\u00a0<\/span>Sustainable development is the intersection of social development, economic growth and environmental protection.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is the relevance of the SDGs for business in general?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Business and industry have a key role to play in achieving the SDGs. Industrial development directly and indirectly supports several social objectives identified in the SDGs. These include employment generation, poverty eradication, social inclusion, gender equality, greater access to education, better health care and improved labor standards. SDG-9 sets the target to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation through increased investment in scientific research and innovation. \u00a0SDGs present an opportunity for leading companies to demonstrate how their business can help advance sustainable development, both by minimizing negative effects and maximizing positive contribution to the well-being of the people and the planet. Businesses must use the SDGs as a framework to shape and implement their strategies, goals and activities. Focus on implementing the SDGs can offer a range of benefits to businesses such as:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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