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4.4: Increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
4.A: Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive.

Urban&Civic impact

• Supporting good quality local jobs for people living in Urban&Civic local areas. 
• Provision of focused training and apprenticeship opportunities to help upskill young, local people. 
• Investment in the development of Urban&Civic employees, encouraging personal empowerment and stimulating growth in learning though formal and on-the-job training.
• Delivery of high-quality community infrastructure including educational facilities. 

Relevant targets

7.1: Ensure access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services. 
7.2: Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. 
7.3: Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

Urban&Civic impact

• Commitment to achieve net zero carbon in our own business operations with an ambition to extend that goal to capture all direct and indirect emissions generated by our sites. 
• Pushing the highest energy efficiency standards and implementing flexible energy strategies based on highly efficient sources to reduce operational carbon. 
• Deployment of renewable energy on our sites and prioritisation of “green” electricity tariffs. 

Relevant targets

8.5: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, and equally pay for work of equal value. 
8.6: Substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training.

Urban&Civic impact

• Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship through the Master Developer (MD) model, embracing an agile operating model which allows us to continually evolve. 
• Supporting good quality local jobs including upskilling young people. 

Relevant targets

9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure to support economic development and human wellbeing. 
9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises into value chains and markets.

Urban&Civic impact

• Provision of resilient outdoor space, utilities and extensive green, grey and blue infrastructure. 
• Prioritising local suppliers, particularly small and medium-sized (SME) businesses, to stimulate prosperity for local communities. 
• Collaboration with trusted partners to create places that are designed to last, flexible and adaptable to respond to a changing climate, new technology and new ways of living. 

Relevant targets

10.2: Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all. 
10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, promoting appropriate policies and action in this regard.

Urban&Civic impact

• Crafting sociable and inclusive places that bring people together. 
• Delivering community programmes with local parishes, councils, school boards and trusts. 
• Supporting good quality local jobs for people living in Urban&Civic local areas. 
• Fostering an inclusive workplace which encourages personal empowerment and seeks to nurture a happy and productive workforce which feels valued. 

Relevant targets

12.2: Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources. 
12.5: Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

Urban&Civic impact

• Maximising the incorporation of key circular economy principles in our sites to ensure efficient use of natural resources. 
• Reduction of construction waste generated on our sites through effective management and diversion of any unavoidable waste from landfill. 
• Monitoring of environmental factors during construction, demolition and excavation activities. 

Relevant targets

13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related hazards and natural disasters. 
13.2: Integrate climate change measures into strategies and planning.

Urban&Civic impact

• Enhancing the climate resilience of our operations through effective management of the physical risks associated with climate change and the acceleration of our net zero carbon transformations.
• Provision of extensive green infrastructure which contributes to overall ecological enhancement and also forms part of our climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy.

Relevant targets

15.1: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats and halt the loss of biodiversity and protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.

Urban&Civic impact

• Biodiversity net gain pursued on all our sites for stronger and more resilient local ecosystems. 
• Delivery of landscape which brings demonstrable benefits in terms of ecological enhancement, carbon reduction, and wider health and wellbeing benefits associated with access to nature.