Sustainable Development

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

How to ensure communities gain the full benefit of a sustainable economy

In this video, Georgina explains what she has learnt about how we can ensure communities gain the full benefits of a sustainable economy. Also, she gives her advice to business and other organisations about how to support and engage with individuals and communities to better collaborate for a more sustainable future.
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Climate Justice 2021 – Day 2 Webinar 1

Our live panel from COP27 explored “Empowering Women Through a Just Transition,” discussing gender equality in the energy sector, the importance of listening to
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Climate Justice 2021 – Day 2 Webinar 2

Our webinar explored “Women and the Net Zero Economy: Business Opportunities and Challenges in Supply Chains,” discussing the role of companies in promoting gender
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Carbon accounting madness makes a mockery of the UK’s net zero plans

The race to go ‘net zero’ is top of the agenda at this month’s COP26 in Glasgow. The latest United Nations’ Climate Change Conference is widely thought to be our last chance to get countries to commit to necessary cuts in greenhouse gases (GHG) and avert unstoppable climate collapse. But government targets to make the UK carbon neutral by 2050 could be worthless if current carbon accounting systems aren’t radically reformed.
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How to build more resilient business models

James Payne is Associate Director for Transformational Strategies at Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainability non-profit. For more than 25 years Forum for the Future has been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the transformation towards a sustainable future.
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Climate Justice 2021 – Day 1 Webinar 1

Our webinar explored “How do Businesses Put People at the Heart of Climate Action?” and discussed the significance of climate justice, benefits of corporate
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Climate Justice 2021 – Day 1 Webinar 2

Our webinar explored “Connecting Investment, Climate Action and Social Justice” and discussed climate insurance for smallholder farmers, enabling resilience through investments, and mobilising investors
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Business and forest communities can work together – Kinari Webb

Communities and business can save forests explains Kinari Webb. Why stopping deforestation is about the people.
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Beware the greenwasher: 5 steps towards genuine corporate climate action

As we head into COP26 in Glasgow, we hope to see corporate climate commitments grounded in real actions that cut emissions sharply and rapidly by the end of this decade and support a just and resilient transition.
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The Green Stoplight, a practical way to involve people in climate action

Populations in vulnerable contexts disproportionately bear the consequences of climate change, however, their voice is often silenced by other issues or approaches to the topic. Find out how the Green Stoplight provides a framework to break down environmental action into small and doable steps to then unite communities in hopes of influencing public policy.
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Edward Cameron

What is climate justice and why should we care about it? Meet Edward Cameron. Edward has dedicated his career to understanding, delivering, and advocating for climate justice. He has a PhD in the topic and is the founder of the International Institute for Climate Justice.
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This COP26 it’s time to listen to farmers and workers

The eyes of the business world have been trained on Glasgow for COP26. The environment is increasingly topping the agenda for boardrooms at the biggest companies. At the UN’s recent biodiversity conference in China the chief executives of Unilever and H&M were among those calling on governments to take significant action to reverse the collapse of our ecosystems.
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The role of social procurement for inclusive value chains

By definition, social procurement leverages the purchasing power of companies to achieve broader social impact objectives. It goes beyond responsible sourcing which integrates and manages ESG criteria into the procurement process. Instead, it focuses on buying goods, materials, or services from social businesses with the explicit intention to create net positive impact.
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At COP26, the Future of our Farmers and our Food is at Stake

A new report, titled Fairtrade and Climate Change and conducted by researchers from VU Amsterdam and Bern University of Applied Sciences on behalf of Fairtrade, is explicit in identifying how climate change will impact specific regions and Fairtrade crops. Above all, it presents a clarion call for immediate and comprehensive climate action.
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How cooperatives benefit smallholder farmers with Hileena Eshetu and Mark Blackett

Smallholder farmers and agribusiness are benefiting from market ecosystem alliances. Hileena Eshetu and Mark Blackett from AMEA explain how. Hear about cooperative farming, access to business supply chains and resilience.
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Investing in poverty reduction and global growth with Alicia Phillips Mandaville

How do you effectively spend billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money to help fight global poverty? And how do you invest for climate resilience and account for the unknown such as the risks of pandemics? We hear from Alicia Phillips Mandaville who is the Vice President of the Department of Policy and Evaluation at The Millennium Challenge Corporation (the MCC)
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Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action: 3 Reasons Business Must Care

We’re just over two weeks away from a critical milestone in the fight against climate change. The UK will host the COP26 climate conference, bringing together countries to enhance their commitments for the first time since they made them under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Zahid Torres-Rahman shares 3 reasons why business must put people at the heart of climate justice.
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Equality, justice, and investment in nature must be at the heart of the corporate climate response

With the release of the latest report from the IPCC on climate science, the planetary emergency sirens are sounding louder than ever. And as the world awaits the outcome of crucial international climate talks in Glasgow, momentum is building for ambitious global action that delivers net-zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than 2050.
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Walk with Push, talk with Push, in the push for climate justice

In December 2009, Push embarked on his first long walk – his ‘Walk for Climate Justice’ – from Oxford, UK, to Copenhagen, Denmark, to raise awareness of the issues of climate change and poverty in advance of the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen, COP15. In 2011, he repeated this effort in another Walk for Climate Justice in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, to call attention to the plight of small producers such as coffee growers in an era of climate change. This walk was supported by the Karnataka Growers Federation (KGF) and Centre for Social Markets (CSM), and reached 30,000 people directly, and through radio he was able to reach a million listeners a day!
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Let’s learn from local communities and step up more to create climate and social impact

An article from the latest edition of CLUED-iN, giving hands-on insights on how exactly inclusive businesses are already living up to climate and social impact expectations ahead of COP26, and what is needed to help other entrepreneurs to step up.
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What do we mean by "Sustainable Development"?

Join us in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals to combat poverty through innovative and scalable solutions that drive global progress.

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