SDG sector roadmaps

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) looks to support its member companies and the wider business community in developing robust SDG roadmaps to help guide and inspire entire sectors as they seek to optimize their contributions to the SDGs.

Through its SDG Sector Roadmap project, WBCSD elaborated on this concept by publishing a framework providing a detailed methodology for how companies within a given industry can come together and explore their collective potential to advance the SDG agenda. ERM has been involved in the development of four completed SDG roadmaps and continues to work on roadmaps for three additional sectors:

• Chemical
• Indian cement
• Forestry
• Zinc
• Oil and gas
• Electric utilities
• Tires

This work builds off recommendations from the Business and Sustainable Development Commission’s landmark Better Business Better World report, which underlined the importance of roadmaps as a tool to help guide sectoral shifts to sustainable development in line with the SDGs.