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SUPPORTING THE SDGS

The SCR500 Index was presented at the UN in New York on April 17th 2017. It illustrates that within the largest 500 stock listed corporations from around the world, the global goals has been accepted as a new guiding principle. It also demonstrated that being invested in those stocks and companies supporting SDGs brings competitive returns: the cumulative return after 4 years is 53%.

At the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi in 2020, UNGSII and UN Habitat decided to team up with their SDGs Cities offering together with UNSDSN, UNICEF, UN Academic Impact, WHO, WHIS, and other SDG-related Excellence Partners.

UNGSII’s 25+5 SDGs Leadership Platform is designed for cities and indigenous communities, and the UN Habitat Cities programme will support Mayors and their teams implement the SDGs by 2025 as Lighthouses.

Implementation and learnings will be shared at yearly events: the SDG Champions Conference (which takes part in once of the 25 selected Cities), the UNGSII SDG Lab in Davos, UN Habitat Urban Forum etc.

These Front Runners such as Cottbus (Germany), Iasi (Romania) Kinshasa (DRC), Mendoza (Argentina), The state of San Marino, Sikkim (India) will help develop criteria and metrics inspiring the other 9975 cities with more than 100.000 citizens.