Rabobank’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

In this SDG report Rabobank demonstrates how they contributed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations in 2017, with a special focus on the themes of Climate, Smart Agriculture and Reducing Food Waste. Rabobank considers these themes to be key instruments to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the decades to come.

In addition to Rabobank's efforts on these two themes, they consider SDG 17 to be key (Partnerships for the Goals), since they are convinced that the objectives of the United Nations can only be achieved when companies, NGOs, non-profit organisations and governments work together. Rabobank already collaborates intensively with organisations, including UN Environment, World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and many other clients and organisations. Together with WWF, in 2017 Rabobank organised a conference entitled ‘Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17: what makes a partnership successful?’ The conference focused on the sustainable collaboration which the bank and the environmental organisation started six years ago, and on the role of entrepreneurs in making food production more sustainable.