SDG and UNGC content indices
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 as a universal call to action to address some of the worldʼs biggest challenges by 2030. Sonova has been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2016 and supports the achievement of the SDGs. Our hearing solutions help to improve the lives of millions of people. Beyond serving our consumers, we aspire to create benefits for the economy, the environment, and society. Against this background, we have identified those SDGs for which we have direct or indirect impact on at least one of the 169 targets. In the index below, we provide an overview of the SDGs where Sonova has an impact, the specific targets, and links to the relevant sections of this report.
Goal | Goal description | Sonova impact | Relevant SDG sub-targets | Relevant content on Sonova's SDG impact | ||||
SDG 3 | Good health & wellbeing | high | 3.8: “Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.” | |||||
3.C: “Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States.” | ||||||||
SDG 5 | Gender equality | medium | 5.1: “End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.” | |||||
5.5: “Ensure womenʼs full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.” | ||||||||
SDG 6 | Clean water and sanitation | low | 6.3: “By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.” | |||||
6.4: “By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.” | ||||||||
SDG 7 | Affordable and clean energy | low | 7.2: “By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.” | |||||
7.3: “By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.” | ||||||||
SDG 8 | Decent work and economic growth | medium | 8.2: “Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labor-intensive sectors.” | |||||
8.5: “By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.” | ||||||||
8.7: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labor, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms.” | ||||||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||||
8.8: “Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.” | ||||||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||||
SDG 9 | Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure | medium | 9.4: “By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities.” | |||||
9.5: “Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending.” | ||||||||
SDG 10 | Reduced inequalities | medium | 10.2: “By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.” | |||||
SDG 12 | Responsible consumption | medium | 12.2: “By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.” | |||||
12.4: “By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.” | ||||||||
12.5: “By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.” | ||||||||
12.6: “Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.” | ||||||||
SDG 13 | Climate action | medium | 13.1: "Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries." | |||||
SDG 16 | Peace, justice and strong institutions | low | 16.5: “Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.” | |||||
SDG 17 | Partnerships for the goals | low | 17.16: “Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries.” |
Below content index reflects the UN Global Compact principles and forms Sonovaʼs UN Global Compact Communication on Progress.
Topic | Number | Principle | Reference | |||
Human rights | 1 | Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; | ||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||
2 | Make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses. | |||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||
Labour | 3 | Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining; | ||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||
4 | The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour; | |||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||
5 | The effective abolition of child labour; | |||||
Working conditions in the value chain and affected communities' rights | ||||||
6 | The elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation. | |||||
Environment | 7 | Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges; | ||||
8 | Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; | |||||
9 | Encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies. | |||||
Anti-Corruption | 10 | Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery. |