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sustainable development and ESG

Why We Must Bring “Development” Back into Sustainability Conversation More Than Ever

As ESG faces backlash, it’s time to reconnect sustainability with human development. Lourdes Montenegro of the World Benchmarking Alliance argues that companies must align sustainability with real-world progress—like livelihoods, safety, and resilience. Using data from the updated SDG2000 list, she calls for reframing ESG as a tool for inclusive development, not just environmental performance.
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Closing the Healthcare Gap: Scaling Hybrid Solutions for Low-income Communities

Hybrid healthcare models—combining in-person and digital care—are closing critical gaps in low-income communities. The Swiss Re Foundation’s Entrepreneurs for Resilience 2026 programme is now accepting applications from ventures using this hybrid approach. Selected finalists will receive funding, technical support, and visibility to help scale impact and deliver essential care where it’s needed most.
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Empowering Young Green and Social Entrepreneurs: A Call to Collective Action

Young green and social entrepreneurs are vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, but face barriers like funding gaps, market challenges, and regulatory hurdles. Youth Business International (YBI) and Development Solutions urge governments, financial institutions, and stakeholders to prioritize investment, legal support, and training to empower these innovators.
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Housing Resilience

Investing in Better Housing can Build the Resilience of 40% of the World’s Population

Global estimates measure a $3-4 trillion investment gap for adequate housing. By shifting resources directly to those in need for housing improvements, the private sector can play a major role in reducing the safety and health risks traditionally associated with informality in order to protect lives, assets, and wellbeing.
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Strengthening Gender Equity in the Voluntary Carbon Market

Integrating gender equity into the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) is crucial for ensuring both environmental and social sustainability. Carbon credit projects that empower women, particularly in developing regions, achieve better and more lasting climate outcomes with the potential to meet multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By prioritising gender, businesses can strengthen project integrity and contribute to lasting community resilience.
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Companies today face the challenge of maintaining ambitious social and environmental innovation while navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. During a hybrid workshop hosted by Meta at the Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, experts discussed strategies for businesses to remain committed to positive impact without letting compliance requirements hinder innovation. This summary highlights five key insights from the session, offering actionable guidance for businesses, governments, and civil society to collaborate effectively in advancing sustainable development goals while ensuring regulatory compliance. Speakers: PANELISTS: Amanda Gardiner, Head, ESG, Meta Lazaro Tiant, Sustainable Investment Research, Schroders Caroline Rees, President, Shift Alija Blackwell, #STMIC Fellow, New America and US National Lead Futures Methods From Around the World, School of International Futures (SOIF)
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As the world accelerates towards a low-carbon future, the mining sector is crucial in providing the metals and minerals essential for green technologies. However, mining’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must extend beyond environmental sustainability to encompass economic, social and governance aspects. The following insights outline how mining for the energy transition can address the full range of SDGs, offering actionable strategies for stakeholders in mining companies, the communities in which they operate, investors, policy makers, NGOs and their supporters. The insights were developed during the workshop which took place within the Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit 2024. Speakers: PANELISTS: Richard Morgan, Head of Government and International Relations (UK, Middle East and Africa), Anglo American Dr. Gracelin
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Ensuring Mining for the Low-Carbon Energy Boom Addresses the Full Range of the SDGs
Watch this Hybrid Workshop with Anglo American and IFC (a member of the World Bank Group) on behalf of the WBG Climate Smart Mining initiative, to explore how businesses and their partners can ensure that the pursuit of minerals essential to clean energy has a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people across the supply chain. PANELISTS: Richard Morgan, Head of Government and International Relations (UK, Middle East and Africa), Anglo American Dr. Gracelin Baskaran, Director for Project on Critical Minerals Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Arsalan Mahtafar, Head of J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution, J.P. Morgan Agathe Bukasa, Executive Director, The Fair Cobalt Alliance Mpumi Zikalala, Chief Executive Officer Kumba Iron Ore, Anglo American MODERATOR: Arjun Bhalla, Global Climate Advisory Lead, IFC
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SMEs and UN Sustainable Development Goals

How SMEs Can Gain a Competitive Edge by Embracing UN SDGs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can achieve a competitive edge by adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Embracing sustainability offers numerous benefits, and the UN Global Compact Network UK’s SDG Playbook provides practical steps to help SMEs successfully integrate these goals into their business models.
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