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Snigdha Kumar Helps Digit & Oportun Make Financial Health Achievable

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Snigdha Kumar , our Head of Product Operations at Digit , has had a passion for financial inclusion since her academic days and throughout her career. powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone. SOURCE: Oportun. About Oportun . Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is an A.I.-powered

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Should ESG Investors Own Cryptocurrency?

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Investors, for their part, should consider the nuances of individual digital currencies and weigh the pros and the cons in the context of their own sustainability goals. These issues are being hotly debated within the crypto community, as well as by policymakers, corporations and other entities around the world.

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We Need to Stop Talking About the Years Our Kids Lost in School.

3BL Media

Before the pandemic, I spent years as a digital nomad working for the Peace Corps, traveling the world and immersing myself in some of the best education systems to see what we could learn from them. That led me to South Korea, where I taught through two pandemics: the H1N1 virus in 2009 and MERS in 2015.

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Are You Ready To Change the Way You Think About Climate Action?

3BL Media

The telecommunications industry can have a big impact by enabling an accelerated digital transformation across all industries. Research being done by academics such as Christine Wamsler and others at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies highlights the importance of how we think about the problems before us.

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Sofidel: Building a Better Future

3BL Media

Sofidel dedicates particular and constant attention to the training of the new generations, especially at a time when the ongoing digital revolution, Industry 4.0 and the new needs for sustainability are profoundly innovating the paper sector, with repercussions on production, products, logistics and distribution.

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SDSN Explores an Asia-Pacific Perspective on World Happiness Report 2023

Sustainable Development Network

In 2009, Bhutan convened 70 education experts from around the world to help develop a project on “Education for Gross National Happiness.” "If a nation has such a vision," he continued, "how does the education system actualise that vision?" billion USD in commercial and catalytic capital for SDG-linked initiatives.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

Similar requests for advisory opinions are currently ongoing at the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where different states, NGOs, and academics are offering their views. Itlos is expected to be referenced in the decisions in those cases.