ISO/UNDP PAS 53002:2024
What is ISO/UNDP PAS 53002?
The ISO/UNDP guidelines for the SDGs (ISO/UNDP PAS 53002) are a guidance document to help organizations contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They have been developed in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide organizations with a unified approach to systematically manage and optimize their impact on sustainable development across various operational aspects.
Why are the ISO/UNDP guidelines for the SDGs important?
Those guidelines are crucial for promoting a holistic approach to sustainable development, enabling organizations to contribute positively to the SDGs. They provide a structured framework to maximize positive impacts and reduce negative ones, particularly for vulnerable groups. Through proactive measures and by embedding sustainable development into business operations and decision-making processes, they ensure a balanced approach to economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Who are they for?
The guidelines are relevant to organizations in all sectors. They are aimed at top level decision-makers who can use them to determine how to make a tangible positive impact based on their own unique circumstances.
Benefits
- Aligns organizational strategies with sustainable development goals
- Enhances stakeholder engagement and societal contribution
- Improves sustainability reporting and transparency
- Supports risk management related to sustainability issues
FAQ
Organizations in both the public and private sectors worldwide – large or small, new or well-established – seeking to integrate SDG-related strategies into their operations.
The guidelines complement existing sustainability standards by providing a focus on aligning organizational strategies and operations with the SDGs as a whole. It complements standards such as ISO 14001, which focuses on environmental management systems, and ISO 22000, which addresses food safety management, as well as ISO’s circular economy standards, including ISO 59020. Together, these standards enable organizations to enhance their sustainability performance across various dimensions.
The ISO/UNDP guidelines for the SDGs are intended to help shift an organization from SDG alignment to placing SDGs at the core of business operations.
The guidelines were developed by an international group of ISO and UNDP experts brought together by ISO member for Denmark, Danish Standards. Danish Standards holds the Secretariat of the Technical Committee for the guidelines: ISO/PC 343, Sustainable development goals management.
A Publicly Available Specification is published to respond to an urgent market need, representing either the consensus of the experts within a working group, or a consensus in an organization external to ISO. As with Technical Specifications, Publicly Available Specifications are published for immediate use and also serve as a means to obtain feedback for an eventual transformation into an International Standard.
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General information
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Status: PublishedPublication date: 2024-09Stage: International Standard published [60.60]
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Edition: 1Number of pages: 39
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Technical Committee :ISO/PC 343ICS :13.020.20
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