Daniel Burrus

JULY 1, 2015

And with exponential advances in technology being reached with each passing year, the pace at which the global economy is changing has increased proportionally. Over the past several years, the overall pool of law school applicants has dropped significantly; between 2014 and 2015, the applicant pool shrank by a whopping 8.5%.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2015, Babban Gona gave those smallholders a 30 percent ownership stake in the company through a Farmer Trust (each Trust Group comprises of three to five farmers with a leader who receives business and agronomy training). Similar efforts to advance these ideas continue today driven by individual enterprises, philanthropy, and government.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Founded in 2015, SBTi was formed as a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 17, 2022

percent of the global economy is circular. A great example is the Ericsson Radio System from 2015, with already included features to enable upgrading to 5G added to avoid early replacements. SOURCE: Ericsson. DESCRIPTION: Csaba Balogh , Strategic Product Manager. Natasha Djordjevic , Strategic Product Manager. Currently, only 8.6

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scott Tew, VP Sustainability: With the call to triple renewables deployment and transition energy systems away from fossil fuels, Dubai may be the most significant COP since the Paris Agreement in 2015. More than 200 nations—and on the sidelines, just about every major global brand—came together and said it’s time to change.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C C target set out under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Decarbonizing the global economy means lessening our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing dramatically our use of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4% billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 in just two years from 92.8 billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Anti-Financial Crime Market abuse, fraud, and money laundering is an enormous problem across the globe that costs trillions of dollars and contributes to systemic risks to the global economy. Significantly, ESG reporting is now being incorporated into formal accounting standards.

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: When the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) was launched in 2015, the goal was to recruit 100 companies. By Juergen Mueller | Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. SOURCE: SAP.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The current global economy produces enormous wealth, but it also creates tremendous inequality, social exclusion, and environmental destruction. The 2030 Agenda, unanimously adopted by UN Member States in 2015, provides guidance for addressing these global challenges.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A cross-cutting theme of the Congress was the need to align road infrastructure management and development with efforts to address several complex and intersecting global development challenges. The warmest eight years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The 2021 Progress Report, ‘ Scaling Urgent Corporate Climate Action Worldwide ’, found that companies committed to cut emissions in line with climate science now represent US$38 trillion of the global economy, more than one-third of global market capitalisation (up from 20% in 2020). Grounds for optimism.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects.

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Revi’s meeting with Mayor Kadir Topbaş was significant, in particular, for the global campaign on an Urban SDG. Mayor Topbaş is a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and is the President of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Nowhere is this paradox more present than in our global economy through transnational supply chains.” In recent years, governments have introduced legislation to hold business and accountable for exploitation that occurs in global supply chains such as the EU, USA, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Japan.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 13, 2022

The initiative has grown exponentially since the first pioneers set targets back in 2015. According to the report , 2,253 companies with a combined market cap of one third of the global economy – a total of $38trn – are now working with the SBTi. . G7 – and indeed all governments – should take note.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“While some progress has been made since our initial assessments in 2022, banks are not moving fast enough to meet global climate goals,” said Simon Dietz, Research Director at the TPI Centre and Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography at LSE.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2015, when a group of us met to ensure the voice of forward-looking business was heard at the crucial COP21 Paris Climate negotiations, this observation felt painfully familiar. Such initiatives were virtually inconceivable in 2015, and today they are primed for rapid expansion.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Natural gas will remain an important fuel source to meet total energy demand for the time being, decreasing by only 13% in 2030 (from 2015 levels), until hydrogen, e-gas and biogas are ramped up,” the Allianz report noted. “As But the EU isn’t turning its back on gas.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The 2015 agreement set long-term goals for limiting global temperature rise and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While each country is responsible for its own contributions, the collective framework ensures a global push toward the same objectives. Multilateralism on climate change has landed significant achievements.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 3, 2021

In addition, those wishing to order coffee from Roar Gill can opt for afforestation projects and deliveries to be carbon offset in key coffee growing nations. How to Avoid Greenwashing?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Decarbonizing the global economy must not lead to further human rights violations. Homes demolished as a mine expands into a city In the heart of the city of Kolwezi long-established communities have been destroyed since a vast open-pit copper and cobalt mine was reopened in 2015. But climate justice demands a just transition.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 27, 2015

On July 13-16, 2015, member states convened in Addis Ababa for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. The Action Agenda provides a strong foundation for aligning financing flows and policies with the post-2015 agenda, and includes concrete commitments. ▶ Remarks by Treasury Secretary Jacob J.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

According to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the number of climate-responsive projects funded by private sources of capital in emerging markets has been decreasing by around 10% each year since 2015. There’s no doubt that the climate-conscious consumer is rising as a force across global economies and capital markets.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

i(c)), but action to fully implement this objective has been mostly deferred since 2015 when it was penned. More money flows to fossil fuel-related investments than to mitigation and adaptation in over 50 global economies , which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change labels a “persistent misallocation”.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nature underpins societal wellbeing by providing basic life support services and material goods such as soil, air, water, food, fuel, and fibre 1 , so the impacts of nature loss are wide-reaching and threaten the foundations of our global economies, livelihoods, and food systems 2,3. Díaz, & H. IPBES secretariat. 6 Ceballos, G.,

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Taskforce of Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) requirements These are international standards which are intended to embed climate-related financial reporting into mainstream corporate reporting cycles across the wider global economy. This could lead to faster innovation and a more competitive market.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 27, 2020

He contrasted Korea's experience responding to MERS in 2015, and the lessons learned to mount a stronger response to COVID-19. Jae-Seok Kim , Member of the COVID-19 Committee of the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine and Professor at the Hallym University College of Medicine, shared South Korea's perspective ( slides ).

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

The early success of South Korea and other Asian countries might also be explained, at least partly, by their recent experience with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2015. This article was initially published on Apolitical.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. More than 70 countries , including the biggest polluters — have set a net-zero target, covering about 76% of global emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

COP26 concluded on 13 November amidst widespread disappointment from environmental commentators about a lack of significant progress on the promises made in Paris in 2015 – even disbelief at a failure to commit to fulfilling many of those past promises.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 6, 2024

By Zainab Raji In a globalized economy, remittances are a pivotal financial flow for developing economies.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The science is clear that the health of the planet is declining at rates never seen in human history and that it is putting our global economy at risk, as well as undermining human health and well-being, societal resilience, and progress towards the SDGs. The survey can be completed here.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For years, there has been a steady stream of visions aimed at reforming, rethinking, reimagining, reinventing, redefining and rebooting the operating system that drives capitalist economies. And that while many at the lower rungs of the economic ladder are slowly moving up, those on the upper rungs are moving up much, much faster.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

Globalization has broadly been a catalyst for global growth For a number of LMICs, the expansion of international trade in the second half of the 20th century was an integral part of their economic transformation. As a percentage of GDP, trade grew from roughly one quarter of the world economy in 1960 to over one half by 2015.

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