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Sovereign Wealth Funds’ Social Focus

Chris Hall

However, investing in social sustainability has several challenges, including difficult geopolitical environment in many countries, as well as a perceived lower rate of return and higher risk. They can also lead in the adoption of best practices, such as governance, transparency and ethical investment.

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Top 10 Business Sustainability Issues of 2023

B the Change

Social sustainability requires considering their needs. There’s a need for examples of organizations with “successful social justice strategies and processes,” wrote a North American academic. Get Started: What Is Social Sustainability provides an overall framework for action. Sustainable Finance 10.

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IWBI Launches WELL for Residential Program With 25 Pilot Participants and Nearly 30,000 Enrolled Homes

3BL Media

WELL’s holistic, evidence-based approach has provided a roadmap for organizations to promote social sustainability performance and enhance their ESG strategy. Projects can earn the WELL Residence seal for residences upon completion of third-party review and verification of selected strategies.

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Social Safeguards “Critical” to EU Taxonomy

Chris Hall

The taxonomy outlines environmental economic activities that the EU considers to be sustainable. . Investors, sustainability experts and academic institutions have regularly called on policymakers to ensure social factors are taken into consideration to enable a just transition to a greener economy. Fitting in .

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A Measured Approach

Chris Hall

Cohen cites academic research showing that the rising tide of ESG-led investment flows has already shifted the valuation of companies in favour of those that have better environmental performance. When ESG [investing] has reliable measurement, we will begin to see investment decisions made in a different way,” he says.

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Aligning the European Recovery Plan and the European Semester with the SDGs

Sustainable Development Network

He noted that the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis was based on the notion of economic sustainability, whereas little attention was given to the notion of social sustainability. On the one hand, SDSN Networks work on generating knowledge and evidence on sustainable development for the attention of policymakers.

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Why the degrowth debate is growing

EJOLT

Today, “degrowth economics” is an activist academic discipline with dozens of top-quality peer reviewed papers , widely translated books like ‘ Degrowth. Ten years ago only a few professors and some activists used the word “degrowth” as alternative to the neoliberal model of perpetual economic growth.