Brussels, 30 August 2018 – Last month the World Business Council for Sustainable Development launched its first sectoral roadmap, the Chemical Sector Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Roadmap, alongside the United Nations’ High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York City.
During the past year, nine of the world’s leading chemical companies, Cefic and the American Chemistry Council came together to “explore, articulate and help realise the unique potential of the chemical industry to leverage its influence and innovation to contribute to the SDG agenda”.
The chemical sector roadmap identifies ten priority goals for the chemical industry and outlines 18 key opportunities where the sector can have a transformative impact across this agenda. The Roadmap offers a unique and collective vision for the sector on what the key impact opportunities to contribute to its most material SDGs and specific SDG targets are — from product innovation to process improvement through to innovative public-private partnerships. It also outlines tangible actions that the chemical sector may take to accelerate impact in the short-, medium- and long term in the run up to 2030
The roadmap serves also an invitation to others to get involved and to come up with “ideas on how to align projects or strengthen partnerships to accelerate SDG impact”.