Green Project Management

MAY 11, 2017

In this installment of our series on the SDGs, we look at #13 of 17, Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. I am going to approach this SDG a bit different from the others in the series because this is a heavily debated topic. First. Climate Change is real. Few debate […]. The post Sustainable Development Goal #13 of 17 and Project Management, Climate Action. appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 24, 2017

Every organization, no matter what they do or whom they serve, is constantly watching for ways to increase the value of what they offer. Anticipation and being anticipatory is a very powerful strategy with which you can boost your overall value. That comes from understanding your customers’ present and future needs more thoroughly to leveraging the enormous impact of new technology and market disruption.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 28, 2017

The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on their successful localization. Namely, on the capacity of countries to adapt these global goals to their local realities, and, from that perspective, to identify significant and impactful actions to achieve them. Localization exercises imply open discussions and knowledge sharing among stakeholders, key local actors, and organizations with deep capacity and expertise on sustainable development projects.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? China, India and South Korea are. . Here are news information I collected today on the very subject. All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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CSR International

MAY 19, 2017

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Green Project Management

MAY 23, 2017

The Rise of Sustainability (Non-Financial) Reporting I am often asked what I do for a living. When I explain that I work in sustainability I usually get an “oh, ok.” followed by a “what does that mean?” Therein lies the challenge. Sustainability is a broad topic. For us at GPM, we address global environmental, economic, and […].

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 11, 2017

Organizations that have adopted an anticipatory mindset and culture enjoy a variety of powerful advantages over those that rely on strategies that simply aren’t as effective as they once might have been. Agility is one such strategy—the often vaunted capacity to react to change as quickly as possible to address problems and changing market conditions.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 17, 2017

Even the most traditional, by-the-book organizations share a common goal with their more forward-thinking counterparts and competitors: How to stay in front of market trends. The obvious advantage to keeping ahead of the curve is that you know what your customers currently value—and, just as important, what they’re likely to embrace in the future. The trouble is, that particular challenge is becoming more acute all the time.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 26, 2017

On Tuesday, May 16th, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Northern Europe and the Maritime Cluster of West Sweden together launched the Oceans Solutions Report at the Solution Initiative Forum (SIF) Oceans in Gothenburg, Sweden. Our oceans are key to well-being and social and economic development worldwide. At present, as much as 40% of our oceans are heavily affected by human activities.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 24, 2017

Please join us in Berlin on Monday, May 29th, from 19:00-20:00, for the launch of the Amazon Solutions Platform. The platform aims to to geo-reference the best practices of public, private, and civil society stakeholders and promote scientific, technical, and academic understanding of sustainable development. The Amazon Solutions Platform , a new initiative of the SDSN Amazonia, was recently launched in Berlin on Monday, May 29th, 2017, at the Impact Hub Berlin.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 23, 2017

by Guido Schmidt-Traub Challenge To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implement the Paris Climate Agreement, G20 countries will need to undertake profound transformations of their energy systems, food production, industry, cities, and ocean management: The world will use more energy, but energy-related greenhouse gas emissions must fall to zero by 2070 at the latest to stay within 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 3, 2017

The SDSN and IIASA are launching the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy (FABLE) Initiative to develop consistent global and national pathways towards sustainable land use and food systems by 2050. Land use choices affect five critical areas of sustainable development: (i) food production, (ii) greenhouse gas emissions, (iii) biodiversity conservation including forest conservation, (iv) freshwater availability, and (v) air and water pollution.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 2, 2017

By Derek Ouyang, Lecturer, Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative, Stanford University and Sandra Ruckstuhl, Program Manager, SDSN Introduction San José, California was selected as a model city for the new USA Sustainable Cities Initiative (USA-SCI) in 2015. This project, led by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), brings together academic institutions and key urban stakeholders to localize the UN’s newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals —a series of global asp

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2017

Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, made headlines recently as it launched its Project Gigaton , an effort to help its supply chain go green and cut by a billion metric tons its carbon footprint. . This is a first both in the approach and the magnitude of this initiative. We have seen for the past few years large American companies push hard towards more energy efficiency and renewables to reduce their own costs and environmental footprints.

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Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 23, 2017

by Marianne Beisheim The next G20 Summit will take place in Hamburg on 7/8 July 2017. Under the Chinese Presidency, the G20 adopted the Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the 2016 Summit in Hangzhou. The 2030 Agenda had been signed by heads of state and government during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2015. The German Presidency is now planning a ‘Hamburg update’ of the G20 Action Plan.

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