Most relevant Accenture High priority SDG targets relevant for this area: ESG material issues: Supply Chain • Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity • Responsible Buying • Human Rights IN THIS CHAPTER: • Working Conditions • ESG Management Responsible procurement • Nature, Biodiversity & Wildlife 5.b Enhance the use of enabling technology, in 12.2 Achieve the sustainable management and efficient particular information and communications technology, use of natural resources. Driving supplier sustainability to promote the empowerment of women. Most relevant Principles of 13.2 Incorporate measures to fight climate change into the UN Global Compact: 8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure policies, strategies and planning. working environments for all workers… Supplier inclusion Human Rights 16.5 Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all and sustainability • Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization their forms. protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of and employment and gross domestic product… 16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels. • Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in 10.2 Empower and promote the social, economic human rights abuses. and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, 17.16 Enhance the global partnership for Labour disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or sustainable development, complemented by other status. multi-stakeholder partnerships… • Principle 4: Businesses should uphold the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour; • Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and • Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation. Environment • Principle 8: Businesses should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility. Anticorruption • Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery. United Nations Global Compact: Communication on Progress 2020 | 41