3BL Media

JULY 7, 2022

Our ambition is to create attractive, inclusive and sustainable workplaces where our employees are motivated, engaged and deliver results. SOURCE: Essity. SUMMARY: Essity’s employees work every day all over the world to improve well-being. We break taboos and contribute to solutions that are good for the individual and for the planet.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

Our commitment to being a good corporate citizen goes back to our founding, and we have been taking action on sustainability for many years. 2021 ESG Brand Highlights. 2021 ESG Brand Highlights. With a donation of $100,000 to the ACE Foundation, the Company supported the hospital network’s vital work. over that time.

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3BL Media

MARCH 28, 2022

A CALL FOR GOVERNMENTS, CORPORATIONS, AND CITIZENS TO EMPOWER GIRLS ACROSS THE WORLD; BREAK SYSTEMIC BARRIERS THAT KEEP PEOPLE IN POVERTY; AND TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. SOURCE: Global Citizen. SUMMARY: With the Support of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Extending its Open World™ philosophy to its traveler experience and community and environmental impact, Expedia Group commits to advancing a more responsible, open and accessible travel industry. Now is the time to innovate the existing model. Now is the time to innovate the existing model. SOURCE: Expedia Group.

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3BL Media

JUNE 17, 2022

SUMMARY: Report highlights Dow's comprehensive advancements across, and within, important areas of environmental protection, social progress, and accountable governance. Provides convenient access to data and disclosures aligned with key ESG reporting frameworks. SOURCE: DOW. DESCRIPTION: MIDLAND, Mich.,

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

In an economy where legacy suppliers have been slow – or outright reluctant – to create significantly greener products and systems, entrepreneurs like these are forcing the issue, taking huge risks to develop greener batteries, smarter buildings, less toxic energy sources and climate-friendly business models. Case in point: the no.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The donation comes from Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund , a roughly $420 million fund that the company created in July 2020 to help small businesses stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic. which have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. SOURCE: Wells Fargo.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Global economic policy over the last two years has been all about recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Tech companies across the globe have been impacted by this slowdown in venture capital funding.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2022

To accomplish these goals, networks need to be put in place at scale, fast and affordably. According to ITU’s latest State of Broadband report, an estimated 2.7billion people still do not have access to connectivity. MSMEs have often been left behind in the rush to digitalize during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The shift toward virtual work, commerce and community during the COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated issues of accessibility online. Once the pandemic boosted digital-first consumer interactions, companies got serious about accessibility — some for the first time. Words by Amy Brown. SOURCE: TriplePundit.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 13, 2021

For the first time since Heads of State of all 193 UN member countries agreed on these universal goals at a historic summit in 2015, the annual report shows a reversal in progress. The report was written by a group of authors led by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, President of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 9, 2022

The company’s impact strategy is driven by the vision of transforming health care in 100+ communities through a sustainable value-based primary care model. The impact report reflects agilon health’s vision and commitment with its physician partners to transforming health care in 100+ communities through value-based primary care.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

SDSN had a busy 2021 where a number of our networks, programs, and teams supported the progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. All this work was featured in our virtual Zero Emissions Solutions Conference alongside the first week of COP26.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Nicole Etchart, CEO of impact-led manager NESsT, explains how the regenerative agriculture practices of local communities in Latin America hold the key to transforming food systems. For the first time, COP28 will see agriculture and food take centre state. Food systems contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The pressure to raise money, measure success, and chart growth is relentless; time to connect with others is scarce. About one in four nonprofit CEOs vacates their post annually and 72 percent report some degree of burnout at any given time. Leaders of color face additional challenges.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2016, the final report from the UK Review on Antimicrobial Resistance , chaired by Lord Jim O’Neill, estimated that 10 million people could die each year by 2050 as a result of AMR-related illnesses. Davies is also the UK’s special envoy on antimicrobial resistance.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 5, 2024

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. By Fan Li & Sally Ren Disability is part of being human. China is no exception to this global issue.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Carbon Engineering – founded by a Harvard professor – has created technologies to suck carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere, for underground storage or processing into synthetic fuels. They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis. In Squamish, B.C.,

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2022

Currently, we’re facing a problem that is global in scale, that disproportionately will impact youth, and that adults mostly created: the climate crisis. Currently, we’re facing a problem that is global in scale, that disproportionately will impact youth, and that adults mostly created: the climate crisis.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

You cannot be faulted for failing to notice the long list of environmental wins that occurred in 2021. We are bombarded with apocalyptic predictions that seem to celebrate defeatism, however, contrary to the prognostications of the ubiquitous prophets of doom, we still have time to act. The fight to defend facts and democracy.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

New York, NY, September 17, 2020: SDSN Youth , the official youth initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and one of the world’s largest global networks of young professionals with more than 750 member organizations from 85 countries, is set to begin a search for a new Director.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

Sasha Dichter, CEO of 60 Decibels, outlines the need to talk about social impact measurement. A 2021 survey of 356 institutional investors from BNP Paribas found that 58% align with SDGs linked to social factors, compared with 89% who prioritise the environmental considerations. Net zero to net impact.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 27, 2022

Such a shift couldn’t come at a more important time for organizations addressing acute threats to climate, health, our social fabric, and world democracy. Such a shift couldn’t come at a more important time for organizations addressing acute threats to climate, health, our social fabric, and world democracy.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As of 2022, ANIP has impacted more than 100 social entrepreneurs and provided more than 1 million BRL (roughly $190,000) in seed capital for projects led by social entrepreneurs from disadvantaged communities like Jardim Angela. He was selected for the program and it opened a new world for him.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

The impact of human rights abuses in portfolio companies and their supply chains is becoming more apparent to investors. Anti-modern slavery legislation is in its infancy and investors must rely on myriad sources of information to identify and mitigate the risk of slavery and forced labour in investee companies and their wider supply chains.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

2021 proved to be a bumper year for global M&A, which according to Refinitiv Data, surpassed $5.8 But one can assume, in the cases of for-profit businesses, the acquisitions are mostly strategic in nature and either create a better competitive alternative or help navigate obstacles standing in the way of future growth.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

After successful events at COP22 , COP23 , COP24 , and COP25 , this year, SDSN virtually hosted the Zero Emissions Solutions Conference (ZESC) , formerly the “Low-Emissions Solutions Conference,” on the sidelines of COP26 from November 1-5, 2021.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

How Systems Thinking Can Help Businesses Address Social and Environmental Issues This article by Ju Young Lee is part of “ The Basics ” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics. In 2021, Tesla’s market share in the U.S. GM is not alone.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

SDSN and our network partners hosted a variety of events alongside the UNGA. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the vital role of companies in achieving the goals, including mitigating the sector’s harmful impacts on human and planetary health and supporting broader SDG achievement.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Ashish Jha said of the predictable and preventable COVID-19 death toll in the United States that “ We got the medical science right. By Conor Seyle. The 2008 banking crisis cost the country of Iceland a larger percentage of its economy than any country has lost in any previous financial crisis. So why wasn’t it predicted?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The ripple effects of Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have sent food and energy prices soaring to record highs, while unprecedented climate disasters are fueling widespread and devastating disruptions with historic levels of rain, heat, drought, fires and storms impacting almost every corner of the world.

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ESG Today

MARCH 22, 2023

By: Anton Derkach, Ignacio Fantaguzzi, Neil Pearse, and Micah Smith – McKinsey & Company Technological, economic, regulatory, and geopolitical forces are driving a rapid evolution of the global energy landscape. On one hand, increasing urgency around climate change and decarbonisation is driving the transition to cleaner energy sources. [1]

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At COP26 in 2021, the first Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) was signed , signalling a historic step-change in the developed world’s focus on funding the climate transition in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). gigatonnes of carbon emissions over the next 20 years.

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James Militzer

JUNE 22, 2022

Vincent and the Grenadines—has taken a beating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, if developed strategically, the renewables sector could create valuable employment in a region which has struggled to provide technologically-minded and ambitious young people with attractive job opportunities. Kitts and Nevis, St.

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Summary and recording of the SDSN Belgium & CIFAL Flanders webinar, held on 8 February 2021 SDSN Belgium and CIFAL Flanders organised an online event about the alignment of the European Recovery with the SDGs, discussing both the EU recovery as a whole and the recovery plans in Belgium in particular.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 29, 2021

C Global Warming Report clearly signaled the critical need to limit global warming below 1.5 °C C by 2030 in order to limit the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. Several countries are working on transformative strategies and innovative policy frameworks in preparation for the UN decade of action ahead.

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