James&Co Aligned With UN Sustainable Development Goals

The goals all countries, organisations and individuals should work together to deliver 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In summary, those SDGs are: Help End Poverty; Eat Better; Stay Well; Learn & Teach; Treat Everyone Equally; Save Water; Use Clean Energy; Do Good Work; Make Smart Choices; Be Fair; Love Where You Live; Responsible Consumption & Production; Act On Climate; Clean Our Seas; Love Nature; Make Peace; Come Together.

UN sustainable development goals

The Good Life Goals: Blueprint To Implement The Big Picture SDGsFollowing on from the UN release of the 17 SDGs, there was a collaborative effort of a number of parties to develop a blue-print for implementing 17 SDGs. The outcome of that collaboration set out The Good Life Goals. The Good Life Goals are a set of personal actions - 5 for each of the SDGs - that people around the world can take to help support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each SDG has an emoji and the Good Life Goals are articulated in respect of each.
Good Life Goals

A component piece of developing the Good Life Goals was a research study which concluded that:
  • 96% of people feel their own personal actions, such as donating, recycling or buying ethically, can make a difference to helping make the world a better place
  • 88% of consumers expect brands to help them make a difference

 

UN Ten Principles Of The UN Global Compact

The UN Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment, and anti-corruption:

a. Human Rights Principle

Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and

Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

b. Labor Principle

Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;

Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor;

Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labor; and

Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

c. Environment

Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;

Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and

Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

d. Anti-Corruption

Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.