Business, environment and sustainable development.

Retos y compromisos.

Abstract

In 2000, the United Nations issued the Millennium Declaration, providing for eight targets to be achieved by 2015, with the objective of reaching partnerships between states and individuals to ensure objectives such as eradicating hunger and poverty, equality and sustainable economic development. For 2015, following the results and commitments of the 2012 Rio’s Conference, the United Nations issues a Declaration extending the sustainable development goals to seventeen, with the aspiration to achieve these goals for individuals and for the planet by 2030, within the framework of what has been called the 2030 Agenda.  In order to meet these objectives, both at the global and national levels, it is essential to develop partnerships for democracy and the development of economic activities aimed at achieving the satisfaction of social needs and the preservation of the environment, in order to seek the protection of human rights, ensuring intergenerational equity, so that our future generations can develop in an environment and with the use of resources in similar and even better conditions and opportunities than present.  In this sense, companies assume the fundamental role of take a series of commitments for generating profits from the company, inwards and outwards, cultivating compliance and giving primacy to cost benefits, starting and with the support of managers who govern and exercise leadership within corporations.