Sustainable Development Goals in Future

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Sustainable Development Goals in Future
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Abstract
This research work is a detailed analysis of sustainable development goals. The major
purpose of the paper is to investigate and analyse the development of sustainable goals
initiatives. Developing sustainable goals considering organizational objective has now been
an utmost requirement. Thus, to learn how business develops its sustainable goals today,
Tesco Ltd has been considered in the analysis. Research aims to investigate and identify the
sustainable development goals set by supermarket organization like TESCO in UK. Study
aims to investigate the importance of sustainable development goals for the future businesses.
To learn about the sustainable development goals, primary data was required; thereby, study
included quantitative data collection method. Twelve close –ended questions have been
developed to help audience give the responses. In order to perform the survey, almost 50
individuals of the organization Tesco were selected. Findings indicate that by understanding
the needs of developing sustainable development goals, Tesco has started implementing
sustainable goals that cover a wide geographical and demographical areas but maintaining a
stable economy is a barrier to sustainable development goals.

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Acknowledgement
On the completion of the report, I must say the fact that working on sustainable development
goals helped me to gain knowledge in different field of sustainability in business. However, I
must thank a number of people who helped me to work the dissertation successfully and I
acknowledge that without their help and support, this work remains incomplete. Firstly, I
thank my supervisor who helped me to build the structure of dissertation. I thank my
colleagues for helping me to collect journal articles. I also thank my parents and friends for
encouraging me to complete this dissertation work.
Thanking you all,

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Table of Content
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................3
1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
1.1 Background to research...............................................................................................3
1.3 Research Aim and Objectives..........................................................................................5
1.4 Research Questions..........................................................................................................6
1.5 Dissertation Structure and chapter overview...................................................................6
1.6 Summary..........................................................................................................................7
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW...................................................................................8
2.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................8
2.1 Pillars of sustainability today...........................................................................................9
2.2 Business and Sustainable Development Goals..............................................................14
2.3 Importance of Sustainable Goals for Business...............................................................15
2.4 Global Challenges..........................................................................................................17
2.5 Role of business in addressing such barriers..................................................................17
2.6 Businesses that have applied sustainable development goals........................................19
2.7 Neo-Liberal Economic model and Radical inequality...................................................23
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................24
3.1 Introduction....................................................................................................................24
3.2 Research Philosophy......................................................................................................24
3.3 Research Approach........................................................................................................25
3.4 Research Design.............................................................................................................26

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3.5 Data collection method..................................................................................................27
3.6 Research Instrument and Setting....................................................................................28
3.7 Applied process for the sampling method in the study..................................................30
CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION................................................31
4.1 Introduction....................................................................................................................31
4.2 Quantitative Data...........................................................................................................31
4.3 Discussion......................................................................................................................54
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK.........................................................57
5.1 Conclusion......................................................................................................................57
5.2 Research Limitation:......................................................................................................58
5.3 Future work....................................................................................................................59
References................................................................................................................................60

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List of Tables
Table 1: Poverty rate is significantly creating the trigger for sustainable development..........33
Table 2: Reducing the poverty rate could stabilize the economy............................................35
Table 3: Addressing nation’s poverty lead to sustainable markets..........................................37
Table 4: Environmental degradations are a major threat to the achievement of sustainable
development.............................................................................................................................39
Table 5: Little Helps Plan of Tesco is able to set the target to make sustainable products
accessible and affordable for all...............................................................................................41
Table 6: Science-based climate change targets hold the potential to cover Tesco’s operations
and supply chain.......................................................................................................................42
Table 7: Pressure to economic wellbeing driving short-term unsustainable exploitation.......45
Table 8: Stable levels of economic growth is key to sustainable development goals..............47
Table 9: Gap in modern accounting practices is not to include the cost of damage................48
Table 10: Human sustainability encompasses the development of skills................................50
Table 11: Tesco’s UN Women Empowerment Principle is effective enough.........................52
Table 12: Tesco Armed Forced Network and Disability Network is an essential initiative....54

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List of Graph
Graph 1: Poverty rate is significantly creating the trigger for sustainable development.........34
Graph 2: Reducing the poverty rate could stabilize the economy...........................................36
Graph 3: Addressing nation’s poverty lead to sustainable markets.........................................38
Graph 4: Environmental degradations are a major threat to the achievement of sustainable
development.............................................................................................................................40
Graph 5: Little Helps Plan of Tesco is able to set the target to make sustainable products
accessible and affordable for all...............................................................................................42
Graph 6: Science-based climate change targets hold the potential to cover Tesco’s operations
and supply chain.......................................................................................................................44
Graph 7: Pressure to economic wellbeing driving short-term unsustainable exploitation.......46
Graph 8: Stable levels of economic growth is key to sustainable development goals.............48
Graph 9: Gap in modern accounting practices is not to include the cost of damage...............49
Graph 10: Human sustainability encompasses the development of skills...............................51
Graph 11: Tesco’s UN Women Empowerment Principle is effective enough........................53
Graph 12: Tesco Armed Forced Network and Disability Network is an essential initiative...55

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Topic- Sustainable development Goals- A case study of Tesco, UK
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction
It has been identified that development of sustainable goals have become a significant
global concern fuelled by corporates and supermarket across the globe. Besides the
successful implementation of business, sustainability of the environment is highly significant
business requirement as business can only run effectively when it has environmental support.
Considering the rapid degradation of the environment, businesses today find an urgent need
for the world to seek a more sustainable path. Moreover, according to the Agenda for
Sustainable Development, sustainable development goals must provide a clear framework for
the collective actions to protect the future. It is worth stating that businesses have enormous
role to play and they are often being called upon by government as well as citizen to take
part. The large corporate bodies like the supermarkets are in the rush of developing suitable
sustainable goals for the coming future. So, to analyse the issue, this study considers the
operation of TESCO, UK and its sustainable development goals initiatives. The fundamental
purpose of this study is to investigate and analyse the development of sustainable goals
initiatives taken by the supermarket giant TESCO in UK.
1.1 Background to research
In the context of sustainable development, Pätäri et al. (2016) mentioned that a
commitment to sustainable development could be compatible with enduring commercial
success. This means that there is a direct relationship between firm’s performance and
involvement in the sustainable practices. The later can positively influence organization’s
performance. So, playing a positive role in the society need not to be for the financial
outcomes (Payne and Raiborn 2001). Organizations that usually make a solid or genuine