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Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development (un.org)
Inner Development Goals
In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. However, progress is not happening fast enough, and we urgently need to increase our collective abilities to face and work effectively with complex challenges.
This is why the Inner Development Goals (IDG) were created – a non-profit, open-source initiative committed to fostering inner development towards more sustainable futures.
Benefit Corporation
Benefit companies are for-profit corporate entities that aim to balance out their profit-making purposes with the objectives of transparency, sustainability and the mission of having a positive impact on the environment.
Italy was the first European country to issue a regulation on benefit companies (in Italian “società benefit”), importing the model from the US.
B Corp
Certified B Corporations, or B Corps, are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
B Lab is the nonprofit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.
B for Good Leaders
The BFGL Cooperative exists to accelerate the transition towards a regenerative economy creating the conditions for a shared, durable prosperity. This will create social, environmental, and economic net positive value through a new model of regenerative leadership.
To enable this evolution, Business For Good Leaders commit to:
- embrace radical interdependence,the fundamental principle governing life on Earth, as the golden rule for decision-making, leading to a regenerative impact;
- consider at least the next generation of humans in every business decision;
- measure what mattersto integrate systemic value creation into our definition of profit;
- challenge extractive economic models and take a standfor the common good;
- mobilize finance as a catalystto transform the business perspective from short-termism to long-term shared value creation.
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
ICF is the world’s largest organization leading the global advancement of the coaching profession and fostering coaching’s role as an integral part of a thriving society. Through the work of its six unique family organizations (including ICF Foundation and Thought Leadership Institute), ICF empowers professional coaches, coaching clients, organizations, communities and the world through coaching.
International Coaching Federation- Professional Coaching Association
ICF Thought Leadership Institute (TLI)
TLI generates leading-edge, futures thinking on how coaching promotes societal well-being. By interweaving collective wisdom from worldwide experts, TLI content casts a vision for how coaching can shape a sustainable future for people and planet.
Thought Leadership Institute Global Digital Library — Thought Leadership Institute
ICF Foundation and the Ignite Initiative
ICF Foundation envisions the greatest possible contribution of coaching to a thriving society, connecting and equipping professional coaches and organizations to accelerate and amplify impact on social progress through coaching.
The Ignite Initiative was launched in 2017 by the ICF Foundation. This initiative leverages the collective power of ICF chapters, members and credential-holders to accelerate positive impact on humanity and the planet. Each Ignite Project empowers meaningful social impact through six-month, reduced-rate, coaching engagements to leaders, employees and beneficiaries of organizations supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The initiative comprises organizations that reach more than 16 million lives.
Climate Coaching Alliance
The Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA) was set up in 2019 and is focused on:
transforming our practice; transforming our impact; and transforming the profession.
CCA participates in a positive shift in human awareness to effect wider systemic changes in the world towards a truly regenerative future – “To give life to the forest of life”.
CCA influences the global professional coaching community to bring the deep and difficult questions of climate and ecological emergency into coaching conversations.
In a unique collaboration, 11 leading coaching, coaching psychology, mentoring and supervision professional bodies have signed a Joint Global Statement on Climate Change committing ourselves to a collective voice and collaborative action on the climate and ecological crisis.
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The IPCC currently has 195 members. Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. IPCC reports are a key input into international climate change negotiations.
Climate Reality Project
Former US Vice President Al Gore founded The Climate Reality Project to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society.
The Climate Reality Project recruits, trains, and mobilizes people of all walks of life to work for just climate solutions that speed energy transition worldwide and open the door to a better tomorrow for us all.