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Sentinel Cities for Public Health

Stanford Social Innovation

Routinely surveying local stores for lead-containing products has resulted in the removal of over 30,000 hazardous consumer products from NYC store shelves since 2010. How can we replicate and scale up NYC’s model to address the global crisis of lead poisoning?

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Great Bear Sea's blueprint for doing business with nature

Corporate Knights

Over the next 20 years, Great Bear Sea funding is expected to seed 200 new businesses supporting 3,000 jobs in sustainable fisheries, manufacturing and processing, marine stewardship and research, transportation, ecotourism and more. A 2010 analysis of the forests and wetlands surrounding Vancouver found that these provided $5.4

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. Shuying Xu.

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Reshaping Business Responsibilities: Navigating Changing Legislation and Best Practices in Supply Chain Sustainability and ESG Management

3BL Media

Of note: Dodd-Frank – Conflict Minerals : In 2010, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue rules requiring certain companies to disclosure their use of conflict minerals if those minerals are “necessary to the functionality or production of a product” manufactured by those companies. The Act directs the U.S.

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Let the Innovation Flow

Chris Hall

Water is essential for our health, well-being, and the global economy. Innovative irrigation technologies are emerging to reduce water waste and improve crop yields, offering a potential solution to one of the most water-intensive sectors of the global economy. Watertech companies secured US$1.2

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Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future

GreenBiz

Our goal is to take this 'whole-of-government' approach and turn it into a 'whole-of-economy' approach. Delivering those contributions will require bold and urgent action — nothing less than transforming important sectors of the global economy, especially when it comes to how we generate power and move people and goods.

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Understanding Deglobalization: What the Backlash to Trade Liberalization Means for Business Growth and Global Inequality

James Militzer

An acceleration in export-led manufacturing growth followed in East and Southeast Asian economies such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan. High-income economies were also strong advocates — and indeed beneficiaries — of trade liberalization in its early stages.