Mercuria CSR Report 2021 - Flipbook - Page 80
THE 2030 AGENDA FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development was adopted by all “United Nations (UN) member states
in 2015. It is a plan for action for people, planet and prosperity. Its scale and ambition are supported by
the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets with the objective of providing a holistic
framework for addressing the challenge of sustainable development.
Mercuria’s Agenda 2030 program has been devoted to the companies’ commitment to respecting the
SDGs since 2019. Mercuria is deploying a range of resources in support of its Agenda 2030 program,
notably an internal website, a newsletter, and has started the development of tools aiming at embodying
the Agenda 2030 objectives as an intrinsic facet of our company’s operation.
As reported in the 2020 Responsibilities Report, we began this part of our journey by first engaging with
our employees. We sought their direct perspectives on which SDGs they envisioned would be most closely
tied with Mercuria’s activities. This information was taken under advice by the organization’s leadership
to help in formulating some broader, company-wide goals. We also monitor the UN’s assessment of the
SDG’s globally in the context of our own. For example, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Report
2021 (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/) highlights that “investing in data and information
systems is not money wasted. Statistical offices around the world have embraced innovative approaches
and forged partnerships, improving the availability of data for evidence-based decisions.”[i] This is
one of the reasons Mercuria and its subsidiary Minerva Bunkering are contributing data to the Ocean
Data Platform initiative of the World Economic Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrialization Network
(https://oceandata.earth/).
By using its expertise as users of and suppliers to the global shipping market and as owners of a vessel
fleet, Mercuria and Minerva are sharing fuel data to provide increased transparency for environmental
impacts from shipping as well as promote data-driven solutions in green shipping. As the UN points
out in the 2021 UNSDG report ,“increased investments in national data and statistical systems and the
mobilization of additional international and domestic resources will be imperative if we are to build
back better from the crisis and accelerate implementation of the SDGs.”[ii]
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