Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

On 2 November 2023, SDSN Portugal was officially launched by NOVA University Lisbon , Centre of Engineering and Product Development (CEIIA), and Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF). SDSN Portugal has already kicked off efforts to advance the SDGs locally.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Planning framework guidance for carbon assessment to be adjusted to be in line with the Paris Agreement. Developing a shared understanding of the sector’s share of the UK carbon budget. The post Urgent action on carbon measurement needed, according to academic group first appeared on Envirotec.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 5, 2016

The Government of Morocco will host the conference in partnership with UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and ICLEI.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Cascale has already set a 45 percent reduction target for the textile, apparel, and footwear industry by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement. Formerly known as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Cascale owns and develops the Higg Index and a unified strategy for industry transformation.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Within Agenda 2030, the action program for people, the planet and prosperity (signed in September 2015 by the governments of the 193 member countries), Sofidel intends in particular to contribute to pursuing the following Sustainable Development Goals (Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs). Health And Well Being.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The vital role that sustainable battery value chains play in meeting the Paris Agreement targets linked to the electrification of transport and power sectors was highlighted during multiple high-level conversations at COP27. The appointment is effective from April 2023 and the term will run until December 2024.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Established in collaboration with Virtua Health, a 15,000-person academic health system, Healthy Neighbor extends access to integrated clinical and social care for hypertension and diabetes management within Camden, New Jersey. billion in research and development directed toward pioneering medical innovations for millions globally.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 20, 2022

Normal 0 false false false false EN-US ZH-TW HI 18 June 2022, Taipei : In the first of four consecutive announcements, the Tang Foundation announced the winner of the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, Prof. The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Paris Agreement of 2015 highlighted the urgent need for a global transition towards more sustainable business practices, specifically use of carbon-free sources of energy.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In the words of Rob Moore, Associate Director at think tank E3G, the World Bank’s and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual meetings represent the ultimate occasion to “break the impasse on the big gulf” that separates developing countries from providers of climate finance. We know that [developing countries’] needs are in the trillions.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The 22nd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) successfully brought together climate experts, NGOs, and high-level government delegates to operationalize the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. SDSN academics and member universities interacting at the country level are well positioned to support this process.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As the largest UNFCCC Conference of Parties to date, COP28 presented a unique opportunity for universities to take an active role in shaping the implementation of the Paris Agreement around the world, starting firstly on their campuses.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 23, 2018

Edouard Husson, Vice-President of PSL, opened the event and reiterated the institution’s commitment to sustainable development: “we must develop through training, not only knowledge but also the skills to act tomorrow. This is our mission as a university.”

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In order to explore such parallels, Springer Nature (SN) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) partnered to convene a series of virtual roundtable discussions. These issues have clear parallels to the climate crisis, which like the COVID-19 crisis, must be met with a profound sense of urgency.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This workshop was made possible with the generous support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This year’s conference theme was The World in 2050: Looking Ahead for Sustainable Development.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. Many of them address the obstacles faced by real companies in their quest to develop technology, products and services aimed at reducing emissions, combating climate change and achieving environmental sustainability.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While the PRI and the industry have adopted the principle of ESG integration as a doctrine, academics have treated it as a hypothesis, looking for data to test it and determine if it holds true, particularly the link between ESG integration and financial performance. And can we really still call it “impact”? Work with governments.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

The Church of England Pensions Board and Dutch asset owner PGGM had already declared their support for a Follow This resolution calling for the oil and gas major to align its Scope 3 emissions reduction target with the Paris Agreement. Perhaps ominously for asset managers, she added: “Asset owners sit at the top of the value chain.”

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 4, 2018

On March 5-7, the City of Edmonton will host the first-of-its-kind CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, where scientists, policymakers, researchers, and development experts will gather to advance global understanding of climate change, its impacts on cities, and the critical role localities play in solving this challenge.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In the words of Rob Moore, Associate Director at think tank E3G, the World Bank’s and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual meetings represent the ultimate occasion to “break the impasse on the big gulf” that separates developing countries from providers of climate finance. We know that [developing countries’] needs are in the trillions.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 28, 2022

The new Western Balkans network will work to mobilize the region’s academic and research institutions, and leverage their strengths to help realize the SDGs and the Paris Agreement; as well as the shared ambition of an EU accession. SDSN Western Balkans (WB) recently held its official launch event on Mar 3, 2022.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 10, 2017

2016 was a year full of action, excitement and surprises in the arena of sustainable development. The widespread interest in the World Happiness Reports, of which this is the fourth, reflected growing global interest in using happiness and subjective well-being as primary indicators of the quality of human development.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As media investigations reignite the debate on the viability of carbon offsets, academics argue for wider stakeholder engagement and changes to carbon accounting approaches to build robustness. trillion sustainable development financing gap means VCMs need to play a role, says Marcelle. The massive US$5.2

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The report estimates that the climate adaptation finance needs of developing countries are ten to 18 times larger than existing international public flows – over 50% higher than previous predictions. Twenty-four percent of assessed countries said they have developed a NAP, and 46% intend to do so in the near future.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

NDCs are expected to be a key focus at COP28 due to the advent of the Global Stocktake , which will benchmark countries’ efforts to reduce emissions since the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Recent academic and industry research also casts doubt on the efforts of asset managers and owners to act swiftly and decisively to decarbonise their portfolios and encourage portfolio companies to accelerate their net zero transitions plans. The whole economy is developing a wisdom. A carbon price is key,” he said.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s interesting to see the investor uptake, [as the finance industry’s] history of thinking has been more reductive – make simplified assumptions and come up with tractable and mathematical models.”

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Despite hopeful economic signals in renewable technology markets, climate media outlets have been clear on the simple fact that the national climate commitments made to date under the Paris Agreement simply don’t add up to meet the emissions cuts necessary to keep global temperatures under 1.5C.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Summary and recording of the SDSN event on the sustainability of the European Recovery and the role of knowledge institutions, held on 22 October 2020 SDSN’s online event of October 22, 2020 focused on the alignment of the European Recovery Plan and the European Semester with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

If the proceeds are channelled to renewable energy projects, infrastructure renewal, energy efficiency initiatives, or research and development, windfall taxes could serve to accelerate the low-carbon transition. Windfall wisdom questioned.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 13, 2022

Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Kazakhstan was officially launched on June 8, 2022, on the premises of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University. The event was welcomed by contributions from academics and research institutes through roundtable discussions with members from SDSN Kazakhstan.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

The white paper was developed by the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) and funded by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, and Midlands Energy Hubs, and the MCS Charitable Foundation.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

While most cases have been brought in the US, climate litigation is taking root all over the world, with about 17% of cases now being reported in developing countries, including small island developing states, the report noted. A notable example if the Held v Montana case.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Just nature transition should be placed “at the heart” of UK agricultural, climate and nature policy engagement, academic report says. Transition to a sustainable UK agriculture sector is being undermined by a failure to factor the social impacts of addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, according to authors of a new report.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The idea of net zero gained attention at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, with the goal for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , many countries made binding commitments to reduce their country’s emissions in line with these limits. Other companies develop a plan (Step No.

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