Sustainable Development

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

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AI is Working for Women Entrepreneurs — But Only at the Edges. For Real Benefits, We Need Targeted Action.

AI is helping women entrepreneurs save time, but not yet unlock the full growth potential of their businesses. Drawing on research across 3,000 women entrepreneurs in 66 countries, this article explores why AI adoption remains concentrated in marketing and communications, and what targeted action is needed to turn AI from a helpful tool into a genuine driver of resilience, productivity and growth.
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The Missing Link in Water Stewardship: Why Gender Equity is Not an Add-On

As water scarcity intensifies, businesses must rethink not only how much water they use but who is most affected by its depletion. This article explores why gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) are essential to effective corporate water stewardship, helping companies reduce operational risks, strengthen community trust and build more resilient, equitable water management strategies.
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Good Intentions Don’t Transform Supply Chains. Better Design Could.

Despite growing commitments to gender equality, many supply chain programmes struggle to deliver real outcomes for women. This article argues the problem is not motivation but design. By rethinking how gender initiatives are structured—embedding context, capability, and evidence from the start—companies can move beyond participation metrics and create meaningful, lasting change in global supply chains.
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Tackling Ibiza’s Housing Crisis Through Cross-Sector Collaboration, with Yvette, Sofia and Anna

In this episode, three Social Impact Leaders: Sofia Ribas, Anna Olivia Spenner Hernández, and Yvette Torres-Rahman, share insights from their groundbreaking research into Ibiza’s housing crisis and explore practical solutions to make living on the island viable year-round.
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Public-Private Partnerships Can’t Be Optional – They’re the Key to Achieving Sustainable Development

Public-private partnerships are essential to tackling interconnected global challenges, from climate resilience to inclusive economic growth. Drawing on ten years of TRANSFORM’s work across 19 countries, this article explores how collaboration between business, government and impact enterprises can scale innovation, strengthen livelihoods, and deliver sustainable solutions that reach millions of people worldwide.
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Together for 2026: Navigating a Shifting Social Impact Landscape

As social impact becomes more complex, politicised and contested, businesses and practitioners are rethinking how change is led and communicated. Drawing on insights from Business Fights Poverty’s Together for 2026 forum, this article explores how organisations can move beyond acronyms, build trust locally, integrate impact into core decision-making, and sustain leadership resilience in an uncertain global landscape.
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Making Environmental Action Second Nature

Making Environmental Action Second Nature

Climate action often fails not from apathy, but from poor design. This article argues that the most powerful environmental impact comes from embedding sustainability into everyday systems—especially finance. By making climate-positive choices automatic rather than effort-based, businesses can drive durable behaviour change and shift outcomes at scale.
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The Business of Coral Reefs with Sam Teicher

Social Impact Pioneer, Sam Teicher talks the business of coral reefs, running impact businesses, investors and innovation.
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Talent Development, Social Impact & the Future of Work with Banalata, DHL Group

How to bring business talent development and social impact to get the best outcomes. Social Impact Pioneer Banalata Sen, Global Head of GoTeach at DHL Group shares her wisdom.
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Together for 2026

At the start of every year, the Business Fights Poverty community comes together to explore how we can collectively navigate the opportunities and challenges
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Social Impact from Big Picture to On-the-Ground Action with Darsh Myronidis, Virgin Group

Social Impact Pioneer, Darshana Myronidis, Director of Sustainability, Virgin Group talks Social Impact: big picture to on-the-ground action
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Reimagining old IT equipment before it becomes waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity

Reimagining Old IT Equipment Before It Becomes Waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity

As support for Windows 10 ends, millions of corporate laptops risk becoming e‑waste. London social enterprise SocialBox.Biz shows how businesses can repurpose redundant IT devices with open-source software, cutting emissions while tackling digital exclusion. Partnering with charities, companies can turn “old kit” into a lifeline for people facing homelessness, poverty and isolation, and strengthen ESG performance.
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Trailblazers and Transformers How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact

Trailblazers and Transformers: How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact

With less than five years left to achieve the SDGs, a new UN Global Compact Network UK report benchmarks how six high-impact UK business sectors are performing. While companies show strong social sustainability progress, environmental action still lags. The findings offer a roadmap for aligning strategy, policy, and investment to accelerate UK leadership on the SDGs.
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Adapting to the Changing Aid Landscape

Corporate foundations stand at a pivotal moment in global development. As abrupt cuts to government aid flows create life-threatening gaps, this new report explores how corporate foundations can help shape a more financially sustainable approach to tackling poverty and inequality worldwide. Drawing on the latest data, global financing trends and insights from the development community, it highlights the scale of the challenge, rising needs, falling ODA, shrinking FDI and escalating debt, and the profound human impacts these shifts are already causing. With Standard Chartered Foundation and the Business Fights Poverty Institute.
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How Can We Put People at the Heart of Climate Action

How Can We Put People at the Heart of Climate Action: Reflections from Belém and Beyond This Insights Paper explores how climate action becomes
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Environmental Justice and Multidimensional Poverty: Intersectoral Climate Action

This article explores how climate change deepens multidimensional poverty and why environmental justice must be central to policy and business. It calls for joint, intersectoral solutions to tackle overlapping vulnerabilities and highlights the role of the private sector in driving social and environmental resilience.
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From Promises to Implementation

In this COP30 follow-up conversation, Jamie Coates, CEO of Wise Responder, guest professor at Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), and the Business Fights Poverty representative
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Climate Resilience for Micro-Retailers: Why this is Your Next Strategic Priority

Micro-retailers are vital to local economies and brand ecosystems, but many face repeated disruption from climate shocks. A new report from Business Fights Poverty and Mastercard Strive explores how digital financial tools can fortify, navigate and recover from climate risks, creating stability for low-income entrepreneurs and strategic value for financial institutions and supply chains.
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How Business Can Drive Climate Action

Fabio Marques, from Fundação Dom Cabral, outlines three essential pathways for businesses to strengthen their role in climate mitigation and adaptation during COP30. Part
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Youth Voices at COP30

On the final day of COP30 in Belém, Flavia & Raquel from Fundação Dom Cabral reflect on why young people must not only talk
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