Sustainable Development Goals

Wesfarmers supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs present a broad sustainability agenda focused on the need to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice and respond to climate change. While they primarily target governments, the SDGs are designed to rally a wide range of organisations and shape priorities and aspirations for sustainable development efforts around a common framework. The SDGs recognise the key role business can and must play in achieving them. As part of our materiality study, Wesfarmers has identified 15 SDGs where, by the nature of the business we are in, we feel we can maximise our impact on a global scale. We have indicated at the top of each page throughout this website where we have addressed an SDG.

Wesfarmers recognises achieving the SDGs can present opportunities for business, but the opposite is also true. Not reaching the SDGs can have negative consequences for companies. That is why we acknowledge our stakeholders need to know the actual and potential positive and negative effects business has on contributing to the SDGs and the data that sits behind work in these areas must be credible, high quality and built on our materiality process.

Goal	Wesfarmers Sustainability PRIORITy / Material Issue
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere	Economic and community contributions Product quality and safety standards Data and cyber security Tax transparency Ethical sourcing and human rights
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages	Employee health, safety and wellbeing Climate adaption, resilience and transition Circular economy Product quality and safety standards
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls	People development, diversity and inclusion Advancing reconciliation and rights of indigenous peoples Ethical sourcing and human rights Economic and community contributions Governance, compliance, conduct and ethics
Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all	Circular economy
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all	Climate adaption, resilience and transition Circular economy
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all	People development, diversity and inclusion Ethical sourcing and human rights Economic and community contributions Climate adaption, resilience and transition Circular economy Employee health, safety and wellbeing Governance, compliance, conduct and ethics Advancing reconciliation and rights of indigenous peoples
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation	Economic and community contributions
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries	People development, diversity and inclusion Ethical sourcing and human rights Tax transparency Economic and community contributions Advancing reconciliation and rights of indigenous peoples
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable	Circular economy
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns	Circular economy Product quality and safety standards Climate adaption, resilience and transition
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts	Climate adaption, resilience and transition Circular economy
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development	Climate adaption, resilience and transition
Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss	Climate adaption, resilience and transition
Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels	Data and cyber security Employee health, safety and wellbeing Ethical sourcing and human rights Governance, compliance, conduct and ethics
Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development	Tax transparency

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