SEMINAR & WORKSHOP

MEASURING THE IMPACTS OF SDGs
MENSURAÇÃO DE IMPACTOS DOS ODS

February 3^rd and 4^th, 2020

University of São Paulo

SUBSCRIPTION (OPEN SESSIONS, February 3^rd): click here. 

PRESENTATION: 

Concerns over global health and environmental degradation has required progressive companies to include sustainable development goalsin their strategic decision criteria. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda has been a driver for promoting innovation for sustainability among several industrial sectors both locally and globally. However, it is still not clear how to deal with the complexity of measuring the positive impacts of SDG adoption to thewider society. Such difficulty is partially due to differing interpretation as to what is meant by impact as well as differences in socio-economic contexts in which innovation takes place, lack of transparency, uncertainties, and tensions among social, environmental and economic indicators. For example, in practice tensions exist between short-term economic gains and long-term social and environmental benefits. Nevertheless, there are synergies that arise from sustainability, such as the financial value of stakeholder positive reactions to an organisation's environmental efforts. 

Additional difficulties are expected when dealing with ‘turbulent’ social and economic environments due to for example, the rise of fake news, political polarization, climate crises and controversial technology innovation. These turbulences affect the ways in which indicators attempt to convey information to industry and policy-makers.Although challenging, measuring the impact of the adoption of SDGs by companies is crucial for more effective organisational management and public policy development.

As a part of a project supported by the University Global Partnership Network (UGPN) and organised by the University of Surrey (UK) and the University of São Paulo (Brazil), this workshop aims at identifying what, why and how to measure the impact of SDGs implementation by industry, as well as clarifying the meaning of impact.

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SEMINAR PROGRAMME - OPEN SESSIONS (3 February 2020):

Venue: FEA-USP, FUNCADI Room (First Floor, Library Building) 
Address: Professor Luciano Gualberto Avenue, 908 - Butantã - São Paulo/SP

SUBSCRIPTION: click here. 

13h30 - 14h00: Registration 

14h00 - 14h45: Opening Session - Flavio Hourneaux Junior & Marly Monteiro de Carvalho (University of São Paulo)

14h45 - 15h30: Plenary Sessions - Stelvia Matos (University of Surrey) 

15h30 - 16h30: Plenary Sessions “SDGs in scholars' view” - Stephen Morse & Mercio Cerbaro (University of Surrey)

16h30 - 17h00: Closing Sessions - Flavio Hourneaux Junior & Marly Monteiro de Carvalho (University of São Paulo)


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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME – INVITEES ONLY (4 February 2020):

Venue: FEA-USP, SAFRA Room (First Floor, Library Building) 
Address: Professor Luciano Gualberto Avenue, 908 - Butantã - São Paulo/SP

9.00 – 9.30: Welcome presentation (by all)

9.30 – 10.00: Introduction to the workshop (by Stephen Morse). Invitation for participants to divide into groups of 5 to 6 people/group

10.00 – 10.45: Rich Picture based analysis of the impacts arising from SDG adoption in Brazil

10.45 – 11.15: Coffee break

11.15 – 11.45: Plenary presentations

11.45 – 13.00: Identification of the main impacts arising from SDG implementation and indicators that can be associated with them

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch and networking opportunity

14.00 – 15.00: Plenary presentations

15.00 – 16.45: Discussions

16.45 – 17.00: Closure (by all)