Navigator on UN SDGs
17 UN SDGs are the most important benchmark in our making both strategic and day‑to‑day management decisions. Committed to the Company’s mission and values, which are underpinned by our Strategy to 2025, we look to contribute to, and monitor the progress against, the targets of our eleven priority UN SDGs.
The Company is among the most highly‑engaged participants of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. The UN first named PhosAgro a Global Compact LEAD company in 2019.
For more information on SDGs, see the Commitment to UN Goals section of the Company’s website
Target 2.4
Our key programmes
- Increasing sales efficiency;
- Improvement of the product mix;
- Programme to develop digital services for farmers.
Targets 3.4 and 3.9
National project
- Demography: Sports as a Way of Life federal project.
Our key programmes
- Safety culture improvement programme;
- Minimising pollutant emissions per unit of output;
- Social benefits and employee guarantees;
- DROZD (Educated and Healthy Children of Russia).
For more information, see: People development Industrial safety Environmental review Contributing to local communities
Target 4.4
National projects
- Demography: Sports as a Way of Life federal initiative;
- Education: promoting engineering professions;
- Culture: establishing cultural and educational museum facilities.
Our key programmes
- School–college/university–facility educational model;
- Cooperation with universities and Russian and international R&D centres;
- Promotion of retraining and professional development;
- Improving safety competencies.
For more information, see: Research and education People development Industrial safety Contributing to local communities
Targets 6.1 and 6.3
Our key programmes
- Initiatives to boost water use efficiency as part of the Company’s Water Strategy;
- Participation in international initiatives (CEO Water Mandate and Water Resilience Coalition).
For more information, see: Environmental review
Targets 8.3, 8.5 and 8.8
Our key programmes
- Comprehensive production development programme;
- Incentives and rewards system;
- Our Favourite Cities programme;
- Green procurement programme and ESG assessment of suppliers.
For more information, see: Strategy 2025 Supply chain People development Industrial safety Corporate governance
Target 9.1
Our key programmes
- Logistics infrastructure development programme;
- Our Favourite Cities programme;
- Process Mining development.
Target 11.3
National project
- Housing and Urban Environment: Creating a Comfortable Urban Environment federal project.
Our key programmes
- Our Favourite Cities programme;
- Promotion of entrepreneurship.
For more information, see: Contributing to local communities
Target 12.4
Our key programmes
- Programme to promote circular economy elements, including the use of phosphogypsum in farming and other industries;
- Improvement of production processes;
- Green procurement programme and ESG assessment of suppliers;
- Initiatives to boost water use efficiency as part of the Company’s Water Strategy.
Targets 13.1 and 13.2
Our key programmes
- Energy Efficiency Programme;
- Delivering on the Climate Agenda project;
- Green procurement programme and ESG assessment of suppliers;
- Application improvement.
Target 15.1
Our key programmes
- Comprehensive programmes to assess and preserve biodiversity at the Cherepovets site and the Volkhov and Kirovsk branches of Apatit;
- Partnership with UN FAO in advancing sustainable farming;
- Carbon farm project in the Vologda region run jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences to arrange, among other things, for the regional monitoring of GHG emissions.
Targets 17.16 and 17.17
National project
- Housing and Urban Environment: Creating a Comfortable Urban Environment federal project.
Our key programmes
- Cooperation with universities and Russian and international R&D centres;
- Collaboration with UN organisations (FAO, UNESCO, UN Global Compact);
- Joining efforts with the governments and municipal authorities in the Russian regions in which the Company operates.
For more information, see: Customers and product management Research and education Contributing to local communities