sustainable development News
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Sustainable Development Congress
Kurita Middle East attended the 11th Annual Sustainable Development Congress Week in UAE from July 22 to 24th. Watch a short video about Mr Dave Johnson´s speech at the Alleem Congress: Sustainable Innovation for Needs in the Water Industry . Click here to access the video ...
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The 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development
The United Nations general assembly for determining a new sustainability agenda, commenced in New York today. Member states will formally adopt the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 accompanying targets resulting from the largest consultation process the UN has conducted in its 70-year history. The goals, which promote human rights, gender equality and peaceful and just societies, ...
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World Bank, UNDP and Countries Discuss SDG Implementation Factors
On the sidelines of the 2016 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), officials from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and governments discussed experiences with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) so far, and identified factors to consider for their implementation. The meeting, titled 'Lessons for implementing the 2030 Agenda: the ...
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Water and sustainable development the focus of Zaragoza Expo
From 14 June to 14 September, the Spanish city of Zaragoza will host an International Expo on 'Water and Sustainable Development'. Nine themed weeks (the first of them being 'Water and Land') will take place over the 93 days of Expo in which scientists and experts will reflect and discuss on water-related issues. There will also be an Agora devoted to citizenship participation and a 'water ...
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UNESCO Launches Education Atlas for Monitoring SDG 4
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched a collection of interactive maps presenting global and thematic indicators to monitor achievement of the targets in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, which calls to "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all." The ‘eAtlas for Education 2030' is ...
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Overcoming cultural barriers to sustainable development
'Moving towards a sustainable society means overcoming perceived barriers such as high consumption. A new report argues that policy makers can and must play a central role in this cultural evolution. The study uses an evolutionary framework to analyse the barriers to societal sustainability. The framework views culture as composed of three elements: worldviews, institutions and technologies. ...
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HLPF Ministerial Segment Opens, Continues Focus on No One Left Behind
The Ministerial Segment of the 2016 session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) opened with a day of keynote speeches, discussion of main messages from the first week of HLPF proceedings, and panel discussions on the theme 'Ensuring that no one is left behind.' Highlighting key outcomes from the previous week's discussions, Jürg Lauber, Permanent ...
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Water critical to Sustainable Development Goals
Tomorrow, 193 world leaders will commit to 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Without water, however, these goals cannot be achieved. SIWI will be in New York to further amplify the importance of water to the global development agenda. The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015, in New York, convened as a high-level ...
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Water, climate change and sustainable development
At the Climate Change Committee's Fourth Thematic session on Tuesday, MEPs and experts discussed the complex links between global warming and the world's water. Water scarcity, climate change and sustainable development, it was agreed, are issues which are closely linked and cannot be successfully tackled in isolation. 'Water is one of the sources of climate change, but it is also an indicator of ...
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Environmental cooperation, a platform for sustainable development
Analyzing the relationship between environmental sustainability and commercial competitiveness and identifying opportunities for regional cooperation were the subjects of the North American Workshop on Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness held this week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and its Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). ...
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First SDG Report Provides Benchmark for Progress
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report 2016 and the Global SDG Indicators Database during the Ministerial Segment of the 2016 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The report provides an overview of progress on each of the 17 SDGs, while the Database provides country-level data on the SDGs used to compile the annual UN ...
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Allianz sustainable development report 2010
Allianz CEO Michael Diekmann launches the German insurer"s Sustainable Development Report 2010 and reflects on the challenges the insurance business and the world at large will have to face in the years ahead. In 120 years of managing risk for our clients all over the world, Allianz has faced countless challenges. No small number of those challenges were caused by people themselves. The failure ...
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Andre Marcu joins WBCSD
We are pleased to announce that Andrei Marcu, president of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), will join the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The precise date of the move has not been finalized yet due to the open situation for his succession at IETA. Mr. Marcu will assume the role of Senior Managing Director of the Council's Energy & Climate ...
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HLPF Considers National Monitoring, Countries in Special Situations
Everyone is responsible for implementing the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, participants stressed throughout the first week of discussions of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). Key messages emerging from these discussions highlighted social inclusion as critical for sustainable development, and the importance of addressing inclusion in education, labor and ...
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UNRISD Launches Consultations on Social Policy Benchmark
The UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) unveiled a draft version of its flagship report on social policy innovations towards implementation of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, inviting comments through an online consultation process. The report addresses: understanding transformative change; trends and innovations in social policy; care policies; social and solidarity ...
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UNEP Inquiry Highlights Green Finance in 13 Developing Countries
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System has published a report highlighting the diverse experiences of 13 developing countries in directing finance toward sustainable development aims. Launching the report to coincide with the 2016 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), UNEP emphasized the need for ...
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Arab business leaders commit to reduce energy and water consumption by 20% by 2012
Business leaders from the Arab world have agreed on staunch commitment to advance and adhere to the principles of environmental responsibility and cleaner production, and set a target to reduce the consumption of energy and water in their operations by 20% by the year 2012. This commitment was announced in a declaration issued at the end of the Corporate Environmental Responsibility Summit, ...
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Business solutions based on scientific analysis
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) today announced an innovative collaboration to ensure future business solutions are based on the best scientific analysis. The collaboration signals, for the first time, that the WBCSD has committed to integrating scientific analysis and resilience ...
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WBCSD Elects Peter Bakker As Its New President
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today announced that its Executive Committee has approved the appointment of Peter Bakker as its new President effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Bakker, the former CEO of Dutch logistics giant TNT, succeeds Bjorn Stigson, who will retire. The appointment comes at an important time for the WBCSD, a CEO-led, global coalition of some 200 ...
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What gets measured gets done - WBCSD launches measuring impact framework
Business knows that 'what gets measured gets done.' In this spirit, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launches the Measuring Impact Framework to help companies measure and assess the impact of their business activities on economic and broader development goals wherever they operate. The Framework includes 3 components: Business case for measuring impacts ...
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