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1.3 THE GROUP’S COMMITMENT TO THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SDGs
1.3 THE GROUP’S COMMITMENT TO
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Our adoption of the UN Global Compact almost a decade
ago marked the beginning of a journey of growth and increased commitment to guiding the way we do business and create value for shareholders and stakeholders in line with the Compact’s 10 principles.
Being part of a group of more than 12,000 companies and 3,000 non-business representatives from
more than 160 countries means we can compare and measure ourselves against our stakeholders who, like us, have decided to take up the challenge of achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda through a shared effort.
The role of the private sector in this journey is crucial, and the power of joint multi-stakeholder action is becoming ever greater. The past year has made it even more apparent that participatory actions, which leverage the strengths of all players in society, provide us with the tools we need to face unexpected challenges that have global, unpredictable impacts. With the same momentum, the next decade poses com-
plex but fundamental challeng-
es: increasingly rapid climate change, the direct and indirect impacts of international balances on human rights and labor, social fragility at the level of local communities and shared international rules that are increasingly needed in order to underpin future sustainable development.
“It is with pleasure and conviction that I confirm Maire Tecnimont Group’s commitment to the UN Global Compact. I also renew for 2020 our intention to integrate the 10 Principles underpinning the UN Global Compact into our business, at all levels. The everyday actions taken in our offices and on our construction sites, with all our stakeholders, are geared towards the full, concrete integration of respect for human rights, the well-being of workers in our guarantee of high standards of working conditions, the fight against corruption in all its forms and attention to the environment and a sustainable future. This is our way of doing business while creating value. This is our responsibility, which we uphold not only out of respect for people and the planet, but also because we know that only sustainable action in line with the 10 UNGC Principles will lay the foundation for long-term business success. The next decade will be an important test for sustainability. As we have done over the past ten years, we will be tackling this by participating in the UN Global Compact, in the firm belief that the choices of each economic player are essential, but that it is only with the consistent commitment of all that significant and lasting changes can be generated.”
Pierroberto Folgiero
Chief Executive Officer Maire Tecnimont Group To create the change we want to achieve, it is essential that our
business, in order to be sustainable, moves day by day in the di-
rection of the Paris Agreement, not only by making long-term commitments, but by taking action in our daily activities and in the choices we make on a local scale. “Making global goals local business” is the statement that best represents our approach.
Within the scope of the UN Global Compact, close collaboration and active involvement with the initiatives of the Global Compact Network Italy and interaction with participating companies is
therefore fundamental. After our upgrade to “Participant” member of the UN Global Compact, and our membership of the Board of Directors of the Italian Network in recent years, in 2020 we took another step forward in this process by signing the Women’s Empowerment Principles promoted by the UN Global Compact and UN Women.
The 7 principles not only provide a frame of reference for the main focus points on which the private sector must concentrate to make gender equality a reality, they also clearly and concretely mark out the actions we are committed to pursuing in order to achieve inclusion and gender equality in the workplace, in communities and in the marketplace.
OUR INVOLVEMENT
INCLUSION
AND GENDER EQUALITY
IN THE WORKPLACE, IN COMMUNITIES AND IN THE MARKETPLACE Our growing involvement with the UNGC is supporting the strong push we want to make towards achieving the
goals of the 2030 Agenda. The Sustainable Development Goals on which we can actively intervene are the 12 we identified in 2017, but our role as a business player can also serve to fulfil a further 2 SDGs (10 and 16). Below is a map summarizing the objectives to which our business will contribute:
MAIRE TECNIMONT COMMITMENT TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of 7 principles that offer guidance to businesses on how to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. The WEPs are a concrete tool to activating pathways dedicated to achieving the goals set by the 2030 Agenda and defined by the Sustainable Development Goals.
By joining the WEPs community, the company is signalling its commitment from the highest level, confirming its intention to work collaboratively in
multi-stakeholder networks in order to promote business practices that make gender equality a
reality.
Maire Tecnimont signed the WEPs on 6 July 2020 during the Business & SDGs High-Level Meeting, Gender Equality event organized by the Global Compact Network Italy. In doing so, it joined more than 4,500 signatories worldwide, and was among the first from Italy’s industrial engineering sector.
