SDGs Archives

Business as Usual – Or Business with Purpose?

As we launch our new strategy, Laura Kelly, Director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, considers how the private sector can respond to development and environmental challenges – and how IIED can support business to deliver positive change.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Corporate Impact, Finance and Investment, Global Goals

May 14, 2019

Neil Gaught

This podcast with management consultant and author Neil Gaught provides insight into what it takes to deliver business purpose authentically and embed it meaningfully and consistently across business.

Global Goals

April 1, 2019

Why Addressing Gender-Based Violence is an Imperative for Business Today

Why is addressing gender-based violence (GBV) a key issue, which should be on the business agenda? Business Fights Poverty’s Challenge Author, Chiara Condi, talks about why eliminating GBV is essential to reaching all other UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Gender, Gender-Based Violence, Global Goals, Innovative Business Models

March 27, 2019

Businesses and Social Change: We’re At The Starting Point, Not The Finish Line

More than three-quarters of people worldwide want CEOs “to take the lead on change” instead of waiting for the government to act, according to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer. Is this a good idea for society? What would this kind of leadership look like, and how could it be achieved? The past can provide answers.

Global Goals

February 27, 2019

The Tide is Coming in for Indonesia’s Seaweed

Do you know much about seaweed farming? No? Well, neither did we until our interest was piqued by a story in The Jakarta Post about a development project in Indonesia.

Agriculture, Gender, Global Goals, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

February 21, 2019

2019: Why Business Should Still Care About the Sustainable Development Goals

James Gomme, Director, SDGs at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) shares six themes for what promises to be a critical year for reflecting on progress and scaling ambition.

Global Goals

January 30, 2019

BCtA at 10: Inclusivity for All in an Ambitious New Call to Action

On the milestone of its 10th anniversary, Business Call to Action reflects on how the inclusive business landscape has changed over the past decade, and looks forward to what lies ahead

Global Goals, Innovative Business Models

January 23, 2019

How Can We Produce Enough Protein to Feed 10 Billion People?

The world has a long path to travel to provide its growing population with the quantity and quality of protein needed, at affordable prices and in a manner that is both sustainable and optimal for health. A year of research and dialogue among stakeholders of the World Economic Forum has begun to suggest a four-part roadmap for making this future of protein a possibility.

Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Global Goals

January 16, 2019

Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019: Embedding Purpose into Business

We’re back at Saïd Business School on 11th July for our annual flagship event, Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019, with the theme of embedding purpose authentically into business. Apply for a place, nominate yourself or a colleague to be one of our featured speakers, or become a Business Fights Poverty Ambassador. #BFPOXF19

Global Goals, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

January 15, 2019

Amanda Gardiner

Amanda Gardiner, Vice President of Global Sustainability & Social Innovation at the world’s largest education company Pearson joins us for this week’s Spotlight interview.

Education, Global Goals

January 14, 2019

‘Total Stakeholder Value’: Is This a New Purpose that Can Drive Necessary, Systemic Change?

Business and societal failures have arisen from flawed economic and financial theories, and a skewed, systemic, perspective of purpose and value. A new book argues that we can create a socio-economic system in which all organisations are encouraged and incentivised to generate lasting value for all human stakeholders

Global Goals, Innovative Business Models

January 8, 2019

How can we build the skills and knowledge that are vital to achieving sustainable development?

Education is at the heart of human progress and central to the Sustainable Development Goals. In our latest report, we explore how business can contribute more to education and training for sustainable development. Ultimately, the skills of the future are skills for sustainable development.

Education, Global Goals

December 19, 2018

Beyond Certification: The Systemic Impacts of Sustainability Standards

Voluntary sustainability standards have the potential to deliver impacts that go beyond individual certified operations and effect wider systemic changes, according to new research published by WWF and ISEAL. These ‘systemic impacts’ help to create an enabling environment for production and consumption practices that benefit people and the planet, and contribute toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Global Goals

December 12, 2018

International Retail Therapy Creates New Jobs

A conversation with Martha Estrada, owner of SuperCo of Guatemala City, and a Bpeace Fast Runner, and Nat Love, a U.S. retail expert and a Bpeace Skillanthropist.

Conflict and Peace, Global Goals

December 10, 2018

Towards Solving the SDG’s Funding Gap: UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative

The UN Environment Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) Global Roundtable took place in Paris recently, an event dedicated to mobilising the financial sector to deliver a sustainable financial system. UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative, “Rethinking Impact to finance the SDGs”, was launched, and explores avenues to closing the SDGs funding gap.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Finance and Investment, Global Goals

December 5, 2018

Careen Abb

This week Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership interviews Careen Abb, leader of the UN’s Positive Impact Initiative.

Finance and Investment, Global Goals

November 27, 2018

Partnerships – All Talk and No Action?

Does the cost and complexity of partnerships mean that most organisations should focus more, and collaborate less?

Global Goals, Partnerships, Water and Sanitation

November 26, 2018

Dr Donal Brown CBE

Donal Brown is arguably a good man to have in a crisis. Having been awarded his CBE for leading the UK taskforce during the devastating Ebola outbreak in 2014, he is now turning his attention to climate resilience for small holder farmers in some of our poorest regions.

Agriculture, Global Goals

November 21, 2018

It’s Time to Move: 5 Ways We Can Upgrade Our SDG Navigation Systems

The state of the online infrastructure that underpins the sustainable development agenda today is lacking. Despite the momentum that’s been built, the standards, tools and systems required to facilitate individual and collective action are often missing. TPI and C-Change share a plan to collectively bring SDG infrastructure and online systems into the 21st century.

Global Goals, Partnerships

November 19, 2018