The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) provide a globally agreed framework to map progress towards sustainable development at large. The SDG process explicitly calls on companies to address sustainable development challenges; assessing and communicating transparently about their impacts. The framework provides a general approach for integrating sustainable development into business operations by minimizing negative impacts and maximizing positive benefits on people and the environment, and reporting the outcomes.
UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, notes that we need “all financial actors to align investments with the needs of climate action and sustainable development”. Dasos Capital answers to this call through certified sustainably and climate-smart forestry, and by reporting about related sustainability performance. Starting in 2018, Dasos Capital reports on the core SDG-based indicators and metrics that capture our tangible and sustainable impacts on the economy, the environmental and society.
Reporting demonstrates our commitment to making sustainability investable, through value creation activities that account for core economic, environmental and social benefits. SDG reporting complements Dasos Capital’s current annual reporting as a signatory to the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI); the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It also further strengthens Dasos Capital’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts and contributes to informing all key stakeholders, and society at large, about the company’s work.
SDG reporting is also meant to inform current and possible future investors, who want sustainable investment targets that align with their investment strategies and indicators and create value while controlling environmental and social risks. Each indicator that we report on is carefully selected from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)’s IRIS catalogue and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.
Reporting on our SDG progress Dasos Capital continues to be at the forefront of meeting global investors’ needs for information on the company’s sustainable development contributions. Reporting on progress within the SDG framework also helps ensure that our forests contribute to a sustainable development pathway for our economy, society and planet.
For further information, please contact Brent Matthies, tel. +358 45 665 1445, brent.matthies(at)dasos.fi
