Communicating Long-term Value Creation | CFO Coalition for the SDGs

In order to raise capital to support SDG investments and ensure investor confidence in the SDG strategy, companies should communicate proactively and regularly how they integrate the SDGs into the core of their strategy and investments and how this creates value in the long-term.

Integrated communication about integrated SDG strategies and investments entails not only the identification of key SDGs in terms of positive and negative impact but also the identification of key SDG for value creation.
It is important to identify a subset of SDGs and targets that are directly related to value creation and differentiate it from those with only an indirect relationship.
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To communicate effectively, companies should first designate which of the 17 SDG and 169 targets are material and relevant for their business and its stakeholders and then explain the process of how their strategy and investments create value for shareholders and stakeholders. Thismean addressing the economic and financial results their integrated SDG strategy and investments, as well as the social and environmental outcomes.

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Integrated Approach to Materiality

Identifying relevant SDGs linked to a company’s core business through a materiality assessment and analysis is essential to understanding the link to value creation.

Economic and Financial Results of SDG Strategy and Investments

Companies should develop a process for understanding and reporting how their SDG strategy and investments create economic and financial value.

Impact on the SDGs

Companies should communicate how their SDG-aligned strategy and investments contribute to positive social and environmental impacts in line with the global goals.

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Integrated Approach to Materiality

Identifying relevant SDGs linked to a company’s core business through a materiality assessment and analysis is essential to understanding the link to value creation.

Economic and Financial Results of SDG Strategy and Investments

Companies should develop a process for understanding and reporting how their SDG strategy and investments create economic and financial value.

Impact on the SDGs

Companies should communicate how their SDG-aligned strategy and investments contribute to positive social and environmental impacts in line with the global goals.

Topics in this section

Communicating Long-term Value Creation

In order to raise capital to support SDG investments and ensure investor confidence in the SDG strategy, companies should communicate proactively and regularly how they integrate the SDGs into the core of their strategy and investments and how this creates value in the long-term.

Leveraging Corporate Governance for Accountability and Transparency

Strong and effective internal-corporate-governance mechanisms are pivotal to augment the scope, depth, and credibility of integrated SDG communications and reporting.

Building Investor Communication Channels

Integrated annual reports represent a repository of both financial and nonfinancial information that can be used for a variety of investor communications, with information customized for specific audiences while maintaining a consistent message.

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Communicating Long-term Value Creation

In order to raise capital to support SDG investments and ensure investor confidence in the SDG strategy, companies should communicate proactively and regularly how they integrate the SDGs into the core of their strategy and investments and how this creates value in the long-term.

Leveraging Corporate Governance for Accountability and Transparency

Strong and effective internal-corporate-governance mechanisms are pivotal to augment the scope, depth, and credibility of integrated SDG communications and reporting.

Building Investor Communication Channels

Integrated annual reports represent a repository of both financial and nonfinancial information that can be used for a variety of investor communications, with information customized for specific audiences while maintaining a consistent message.

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