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P. A. C. da Rosa and M. Feilstrecker
The UN Agenda 2030 is the plan drawn up by world leaders in which countries
share responsibility for the global common good and commit themselves to the
seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which goes through the social,
environmental and economic dimension (BMU 2018).
The SDG 9—Industry, innovation and infrastructure—has as one of its goals
modernizing the infrastructure and rehabilitate industries, pursuing to make them
sustainable, using resources in a more efficient way, and adopting clean and environmentally adequate technologies, and industrial processes by 2030 (ONU BR 2018a).
The SDG 12—Sustainable consumption and production—has the capacity to
make feasible the reach of many of the other ODS in an integrated and embracing manner, as they act on changes in production and consumption patterns. This
implies cleaner and more efficient production practices, training, innovation and
technological change across the entire value chain of products and services, as well
as behavior change and consumer choices, along with public sector procurement
strategies (ONU BR 2018b).
The Brazilian Sustainable Production and Consumption Plan (PPCS), launched
in 2011 by the Ministry of the Environment in partnership with several organizations, entered the second cycle of 2016–2020. The main goal is to foster changes
in the current paradigm of production and consumption, considering, among the
thematic axes, sustainable public procurement, sustainable industry and solid-waste
management (ONU BR 2018b).
The concern with sustainable purchasing has gained worldwide importance over
the last years, culminating in the recent publication of a specific standard, the NBR
ISO 20400: 2017: Sustainable Purchases - guidelines, elaborated by ABNT (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas), responsible for the elaboration of technical
standards in Brazil. According to this pattern, sustainable purchases are “purchases
that have the greatest possible positive environmental, social and economic impacts
throughout the life cycle and that seek to minimize adverse impacts” (ABNT 2017).
The SDG 17—Industry and university partnerships, collaborative initiative - aim
at strengthening the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership
for sustainable development. According to NBR ISO 20400: 2017, examples of joint
initiatives include sectorial programs whose goal is to generate adequate working
conditions in the supply chain, promote more sustainable alternatives and share audit
data.
According to a study presented by Ecosense (2017), in the last 15 years there
has been an increase in sectorial initiatives for supplier management, as well as in
the amount of integrated actions among industries, joining efforts to achieve efficiency in sustainability monitoring, and cutting associated costs. In this sense, we
can mention several joint activities, such as the establishment of standards, instruments and positioning in common public affairs amongst companies, conducting
training, monitoring and collaborative audits.
Even observing an increasing number of collaborative initiatives related to suppliers’ management, especially at international level, it is possible to notice that
regarding to specific initiatives in the environmental segment; the scope of audits is
concentrated mainly in regions of Europe and North America.
P. A. C. da Rosa and M. Feilstrecker
The UN Agenda 2030 is the plan drawn up by world leaders in which countries
share responsibility for the global common good and commit themselves to the
seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which goes through the social,
environmental and economic dimension (BMU 2018).
The SDG 9—Industry, innovation and infrastructure—has as one of its goals
modernizing the infrastructure and rehabilitate industries, pursuing to make them
sustainable, using resources in a more efficient way, and adopting clean and environmentally adequate technologies, and industrial processes by 2030 (ONU BR 2018a).
The SDG 12—Sustainable consumption and production—has the capacity to
make feasible the reach of many of the other ODS in an integrated and embracing manner, as they act on changes in production and consumption patterns. This
implies cleaner and more efficient production practices, training, innovation and
technological change across the entire value chain of products and services, as well
as behavior change and consumer choices, along with public sector procurement
strategies (ONU BR 2018b).
The Brazilian Sustainable Production and Consumption Plan (PPCS), launched
in 2011 by the Ministry of the Environment in partnership with several organizations, entered the second cycle of 2016–2020. The main goal is to foster changes
in the current paradigm of production and consumption, considering, among the
thematic axes, sustainable public procurement, sustainable industry and solid-waste
management (ONU BR 2018b).
The concern with sustainable purchasing has gained worldwide importance over
the last years, culminating in the recent publication of a specific standard, the NBR
ISO 20400: 2017: Sustainable Purchases - guidelines, elaborated by ABNT (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas), responsible for the elaboration of technical
standards in Brazil. According to this pattern, sustainable purchases are “purchases
that have the greatest possible positive environmental, social and economic impacts
throughout the life cycle and that seek to minimize adverse impacts” (ABNT 2017).
The SDG 17—Industry and university partnerships, collaborative initiative - aim
at strengthening the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership
for sustainable development. According to NBR ISO 20400: 2017, examples of joint
initiatives include sectorial programs whose goal is to generate adequate working
conditions in the supply chain, promote more sustainable alternatives and share audit
data.
According to a study presented by Ecosense (2017), in the last 15 years there
has been an increase in sectorial initiatives for supplier management, as well as in
the amount of integrated actions among industries, joining efforts to achieve efficiency in sustainability monitoring, and cutting associated costs. In this sense, we
can mention several joint activities, such as the establishment of standards, instruments and positioning in common public affairs amongst companies, conducting
training, monitoring and collaborative audits.
Even observing an increasing number of collaborative initiatives related to suppliers’ management, especially at international level, it is possible to notice that
regarding to specific initiatives in the environmental segment; the scope of audits is
concentrated mainly in regions of Europe and North America.