FGV Annual Report 2018

17 ESTABLISHED INTEGRATED AND COMPREHENSIVE IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 01 02 05 03 07 06 04 08 09 ANNUAL INTEGRATED REPORT 2018 ASSESSING OUR MATERIAL MATTERS SETTING OUR MATERIAL MATTERS TO THE GLOBAL CONTEXT In recent years, we have benchmarked our sustainability efforts against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which consist of 17 global goals towards ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring the people enjoy peace and prosperity by the year 2030. 193 countries are signatories of the SDGs, including countries in ASEAN where the SDGs’ movement continues to gain traction. In Malaysia, the SDGs Roadmap Phase 1 (2018-2020) is being developed to align the implementation of the SDGs with the 11 th Malaysia Plan. As global megatrends such as population growth, depletion of resources and epidemic diseases continue to emerge, the business landscape is presented with rapidly changing and unparalleled risks and opportunities. Consumers and investors, who now have information at their fingertips, are also placing greater pressure on businesses, especially those which are reliant on natural resources such as ours, to take responsibility for the impact we create on society and the environment. As a forward-looking business built on a legacy of sustainable development, inclusiveness and the uplifting of rural communities, we are committed to addressing these challenges and playing a role in ensuring the long-term well-being and prosperity of the planet and its people. Against this backdrop, we believe in achieving sustainable development by incorporating the SDGs and its targets into our operations to meet the growing expectations from the public. We also see this as a viable approach to help strengthen our sustainability practices and improve our business performance in the long-term. It also provides us with business opportunities, in areas including food & agriculture, and energy & materials, to be created with the achievement of the SDGs. We have identified 12 SDGs which we believe we can contribute to the most through our business activities. These cover areas throughout our value chain as well as the communities, human rights and the environment. We have further mapped these against the Six Capitals of value creation, as reported in our Management Discussion & Analysis section. In doing so, we aim to provide our Stakeholders with a clear view of our efforts to conduct our business beyond the bottom line and contribute to sustainable development. The SDG targets we are aligned to and their relationships to the Six Capitals are as follows: FINANCIAL CAPITAL MANUFACTURED CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL NATURAL CAPITAL INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL SOCIAL & RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL For further details on how we aligned the SDG targets to the Six Capitals can be found in the Management Discussion & Analysis on pages 31-55