The coronavirus pandemic has significantly hindered progress toward achieving the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, M&G Investments warns. The 17 SDGs aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity by 2030. They were launched five years …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for ammonia emissions has been published by Teagasc. The publication is titled “An Analysis of the Cost of the Abatement of Ammonia Emissions in Irish Agriculture to 2030,” and …
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his government is committed to reduce poverty from 24.3 percent to 19 percent by 2023. He was virtually speaking at the High-Level Side Event to the UN General Assembly Session titled, “Poverty at Crossroad: …
Participant Published 2020/09/23 Time period September 2019 – September 2020 Files Links Format Part of a sustainability or corporate (social) responsibility report Differentiation Level This COP qualifies for the Global Compact Active level Self-assessment Includes a CEO statement of continued support for …
24 Sep 2020, 09:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Photo: Achim Melde / DBT Germany is set to vote for a new government in autumn 2021. After 16 years at the helm of Europe’s largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel …
When Susan Cook-Patton was doing a post-doc in forest restoration at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland seven years ago, she says she helped plant 20,000 trees along Chesapeake Bay. It was a salutary lesson. “The ones that grew …
This week, as part of Climate Week NYC, which runs alongside the UN General Assembly, UK is sharing its ambitious commitments for the environment, the climate and clean energy: 22 regions, 452 cities, 1,101 businesses, 549 universities and 45 of …
In a world ravaged by COVID-19, transparency, focus, collaboration and customer-centricity should be core operating values for businesses — particularly fashion firms. For companies like Athleta and Nisolo, both B Corp-certified and centered around sustainability, the pandemic brought the need …
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 23, 2020– CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center real estate investment trust (REIT), today announced a pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040 through the reduction of carbon emissions across the company’s global data center …
Somali refugees are pictured at the Ifo refugee camp in eastern Kenya on Aug.7, 2011. Climate change contributed to low rain levels in East Africa in 2011, making global warming one of the causes of Somalia’s famine. Jerome Delay/AP Why …
A common refrain from Republicans and others who have dragged their feet on pushing the United States toward carbon neutral status is that such action wouldn’t change anything since China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, wouldn’t do the same. On …
If a barefoot giant were to take a walk through your neighborhood on the hottest days of the year, where would he step to avoid being burned? This was the question Arizona State University researchers posed to residents in three …
These days, there’s a lot of incentive for businesses to operate in an eco-friendly and sustainable way. It really is a win-win: your business stays aligned with changing regulations, your reputation is strengthened, and your bottom line is improved. For …
In my role as Global Director for Sustainability, Security and Safety at Keysight, like many others, I note the exceptionally extraordinary year that 2020 has become. Starting in January, I led Keysight’s Global Crisis Management Team as incident commander for …
There are lively discussions going on, centered on improving publicly-traded company disclosure and reporting – and especially ESG reporting…that is, storytelling about the company’s “non-financials” (in accounting-speak). The proliferation of ESG / sustainability reporting frameworks, standards, information platforms, industry guidance, …