Sustainable Development

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Cotton Farming

Building Prosperity from the Ground Up: Helping Farmers Thrive

This article explores how smallholder cotton farmers can build long-term prosperity through traceability, climate resilience, and inclusive supply chains. Highlighting CottonConnect’s approach—from regenerative farming to digital tools—it makes the case that empowering farmers is essential to global sustainability. When farmers thrive, businesses prosper—and prosperity becomes a shared outcome.
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Young Leaders Driving Environmental Change Win The Iris Prize 2025

The Iris Prize 2025 celebrates young environmental leaders driving change in Mongolia, Mexico, and the Philippines. With £718,000 in support since 2022, the award funds youth-led projects tackling air pollution, river restoration, and marine conservation. The initiative highlights the urgent need to back youth innovation for a sustainable future.
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Views from the Global Goals Summit on Business Fights Poverty’s New Report: Making the Five Bridges to 2045 a Reality

At this year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, a number of sessions turned their attention to the launch of our new Five Bridges to 2045: How Business Can Build a Fairer, More Resilient Future. Eighteen experts from our global network took part in online sessions and an in-person event hosted with Barclays in New York, where representatives from Ikea, Natura, Vodafone Foundation, ABF Sugar and Fundación Paraguaya shared their perspectives on how to bring the report’s vision of embedding social impact and sustainability into core business closer to reality.
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Collaborative Climate Action

Collaborative Climate Action Starts with Workers

Climate change is already harming garment workers—especially women—through extreme heat, flooding, illness, lost wages, and increased violence. RISE’s new research reveals how climate risks cascade through workers’ lives and offers actionable steps for brands and manufacturers. The call is clear: climate action in the garment sector must start with listening to workers.
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The Power of Participatory Radio with Hannah and Meshack

The Power of Participatory Radio with Hannah and Meshack

Listen to this podcast conversation to learn about The Power of Participatory Radio. Social Impact Pioneers – Meshack Kitungu Kawinzi and Hannah Davis share how one of the world’s oldest and most trusted communication tools, radio, is being harnessed to change lives and strengthen communities.
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How Can Companies Turn Sustainability into Jobs, Livelihoods and Lasting Business Value?

How Can Companies Turn Sustainability into Jobs, Livelihoods and Lasting Business Value? Hosted with Novonesis This Insights Paper explores how companies can translate sustainability
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What Bridges Must Business Build to Deliver a Fairer, More Resilient Future?

Watch this session that unpacks our “5 Bridges to 2045” framework using real-world examples that explore practical strategies for connecting business functions, aligning environmental
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How Can Companies Turn Sustainability into Jobs, Livelihoods and Lasting Business Value?

Watch this Fireside with Novonesis to examine how businesses can embed sustainability into strategy, moving beyond risk and cost management to creating jobs, strengthening
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Reimagining Housing in Ibiza

This report examines Ibiza’s escalating housing crisis, marked by inaffordability, displacement, underutilisation, and fragmentation, and identifies its structural drivers, from speculation and seasonality to regulatory blindspots. Drawing on surveys of over 1,000 residents and international case studies, it sets out 60 actionable proposals across three pathways: market-driven business initiatives, government-led policies, and community-based models like cooperatives and land trusts. Practical strategies include mobilising vacant stock, strengthening regulation, supporting seasonal workers, and piloting collective ownership. With (Ma) Laboratorio de Transformación Sostenible and Business Fights Poverty, supported by the Government of the Balearic Islands and EU NextGeneration funds.
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Five Bridges to 2045: How business can build a fairer, more resilient future

This report argues that companies should harness their core operations to create inclusive, resilient livelihoods by 2045, responding to today’s intertwined geopolitical, economic, and climate disruptions. It sets out a five-bridge framework—with practical priorities and cases—for: integrating social impact into core functions, aligning environmental and social agendas for a just transition, evolving governance and incentives, connecting decision-makers to those closest to the issues, and scaling cross-sector collaboration. With the Business Fights Poverty Institute.
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Open Source, Open Learning: Unlocking Innovation for Social Impact

Innovation thrives when knowledge is shared. In this piece, Chris Lawrence explores how open learning—rooted in humility, transparency, and collective wisdom—can unlock solutions to global challenges. Moving beyond open source technology, he argues for a business philosophy that values shared experience and human connection to foster lasting social impact and inclusive innovation.
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The Future of Climate Action: Youth Leadership and Systems Change with Penelope and Hassan

Social Impact Pioneers: Penelope Gregoriou & Muhammad Hassan Dajana explore how the young leaders reshape climate action & social innovation
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Mark Horoszowski & Alam Bains

Empowering Social Innovation with Mark Horoszowski & Alam Bains

Mark Horoszowski and Alam Bains of MovingWorlds talk behaviour change, empowering social innovation and taking volunteering to another level.
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Impact Credits Can Revolutionize Poverty Alleviation

Tradeable impact credits—like those issued on the Common Good Marketplace—are transforming how businesses fund global poverty alleviation. With verified outcomes, clear valuation, and rigorous auditing, these credits enable companies to invest in real results and receive measurable social returns. This article explores the promise of impact credits as a tool for scalable, accountable, and high-impact funding.
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Stef Engels

Reimagining Development Through Business with Stefan Engels

Meet Stefan Engels, an international development leader with a remarkable cross-sector journey—from corporate boardrooms to grassroots innovation hubs across Africa. Now based in Nairobi, Stefan brings nearly two decades of experience working at the nexus of private sector development, inclusive business models, and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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Enabling a Fairer Transition and Climate Response

A project to build the resilience to climate change of coastal communities in Sierra Leone, and a partnership with world-leading researchers on how the private sector can contribute to a fair and just energy transition, are just two examples of AXA XL’s work on social impact. As part of managing the risks and seizing the opportunities of the transition and navigating the extreme weather events from a changing climate, AXA XL are working to deliver positive social impact for people and communities around the world and accelerate an inclusive transition.
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In the Face of Headwinds, Look to Partnerships

In the nonprofit sector, the phrase “stronger together” has never been more relevant. As organizations face mounting challenges—from funding cuts to political uncertainty—there can be a tendency to turn inward. However, for purpose-driven organizations to thrive in the face of adversity, it will be essential for them to leverage this season of change as an opportunity to build and strengthen effective partnerships, thereby maximizing their impact.
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EU Anti-Greenwashing Law is Developing Fast: Credible Sustainability Systems Can Maximise its Potential

The EU Green Claims Directive (GCD) will outlaw false environmental claims, regulating consumer trust, truthful business and meaningful sustainability action. Credible sustainability systems will be vital in corporate adaptation to the GCD. Influencing companies’ claims work, they can create positive impacts for people and planet. In Part Two of ISEAL’s credibility series, Vidya Rangan, Policy and Engagement Director and Patrick Mallet, ISEAL’s Innovations Director, reveal why credible claims are so vital.
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Josh Wheeler - Changing the Climate Conversation

Changing the Climate Conversation with Josh Wheeler

In this episode, we welcome Social Impact Pioneer Josh Wheeler — founder of Be Broadcast, award-winning broadcast PR strategist, and one of the UK’s leading voices on reshaping how we talk about climate change and how to move the conversation from climate fear, stalling and inaction, to something everyone can take positive action on.
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Reducing Child Labour in Palm Oil: A Model for Business-NGO Collaboration

A pioneering partnership between Planting Naturals, APT Action on Poverty, and MAPCO has reduced child labour by 70% in Sierra Leone’s palm oil sector. By combining ethical sourcing, community-led development, and inclusive finance, this collaboration shows how businesses and NGOs can drive sustainable change through shared responsibility and grassroots engagement.
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