Sustainability
The Agenda 2030
On 25 September 2015, the UN Summit in New York adopted the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The 17 goals of the Agenda are to contribute to enabling all people worldwide to live in dignity.
We are committed to implementing Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are committed to concrete action and will document our achievements through indicators. As not all targets are equally applicable to companies, we will focus our efforts on the following:
Target 1.4
Ensure by 2030 that all men and women, especially the poor and vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources and access to basic services, land ownership and control and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technologies and financial services, including microfinance.
Target 3.8
Achieve universal health care, including financial risk insurance, access to high-quality essential health services and access to safe, effective, high-quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Target 4.3
Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university education, by 2030.
Target 4.4
Significantly increase by 2030 the number of young people and adults with appropriate qualifications, including technical and vocational qualifications, for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.
Target 5.1
End all forms of discrimination against women and girls anywhere in the world.
Target 5.2
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private sectors, including trafficking in human beings and sexual and other forms of exploitation.
Target 6.3
Improve water quality worldwide by 2030 by reducing pollution, ending dumping and minimising the release of hazardous chemicals and substances, halving the proportion of untreated waste water and significantly increasing reprocessing and safe reuse.
Target 8.2
Achieve higher economic productivity through diversification, technological modernisation and innovation, including through concentration on high value-added and labour-intensive sectors.
Target 8.5
To achieve productive full employment and decent work for all women and men by 2030, including young people and people with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
Target 9.5
Improve scientific research and strengthen the technological capacities of industrial sectors in all countries, and in particular in developing countries, by, inter alia, promoting innovation by 2030 and significantly increasing the number of persons per million engaged in research and development and public and private expenditure on research and development.
Target 11.2
By 2030, enable access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all and improve road safety, in particular by developing public transport, with particular attention to the needs of people in vulnerable situations, women, children, people with disabilities and the elderly.
Target 12.2
Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030.
Target 16.5
Reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms significantly.
Target 16.10
Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national law and international agreements.