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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Our IDEX business strategy and material topics significantly overlap with several of the UN SDGs. For a closer look at the way that our internal initiatives drive global progress, see the table below. For a list of IDEX Material Topics, see the Material Topics section contained in this report.

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SDG TARGET INDICATOR IDEX MATERIAL TOPIC
5 – Gender Equality

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

Proportion of women in managerial positions.
For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 5.5.2.

Talent Management, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation

By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 6.1.

Proportion of population using safely managed drinking
water services.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 6.1.

Product Performance

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.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 6.3.

 

Proportion of domestic and industrial wastewater flows safely treated.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 6.3.1.

 

Product Performance

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.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 6.4.

 

Change in water-use efficiency over time.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 6.4.1.

 

Product Performance
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth

Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 percent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 8.1.

 

Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.1.1.

 

Product Performance

Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sector.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 8.2.

 

Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.2.1.

 

Product Performance

Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 8.4.

 

Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.4.1.

Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.4.2.

 

Responsible Supply Chain, Energy and Emissions

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.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 8.5.

 

Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.5.1.

 

Talent Management, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 8.7.

 

Proportion and number of children aged 5‑17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.7.1.

 

Business Ethics and Compliance

Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 8.8.

 

Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex and migrant status.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.8.1.

Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 8.8.2.

 

Environmental Health and Safety, Business Ethics and Compliance
9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 9.2.

 

Manufacturing value added as a proportion of GDP and per capita.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 9.2.1.

Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 9.2.2.

 

Product Performance, Talent Management

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.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 9.4.

 

9.4.1 CO2 emission per unit of value added.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 9.4.1.

 

Energy and Emissions
12 – Responsible Production and Consumption

Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 12.1.

 

Number of countries developing, adopting or implementing policy instruments aimed at supporting the shift to sustainable consumption and production.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 12.1.1.

 

Energy and Emissions

By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 12.2.

 

Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 12.2.1.

Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 12.2.2.

 

Responsible Supply Chain

By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 12.5.

 

National recycling rate, tons of material recycled.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 12.5.1.

 

Responsible Supply Chain, Energy and Emissions

Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 12.6.

 

Number of companies publishing sustainability reports.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 12.6.1.

 

Business Ethics and Compliance

Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 12.a.

 

Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing and developed countries (in watts per capita).

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 12.a.1.

 

Energy and Emissions
13 – Climate Action

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

For more information on this target, see UN SDG 13.2.

 

Total greenhouse gas emissions per year.

For more information on this indicator, see UN SDG 13.2.2.

 

Energy and Emissions
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