April, 2019

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Solve Problems and Innovate as an Anticipatory Leader™

Daniel Burrus

Anticipatory Leaders understand that we are at a unique point in human history, filled with waves of disruption and opportunity. We are doing things today that were impossible just a few years ago. If you look at the Hard Trends that are shaping the future, you can easily see that we will be doing things two years from now that are impossible today.

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Indonesia SDG Symposium

Sustainable Development Network

Sustainability Science and Solutions in the era of the SDGs On 29 April, 2019, SDSN Indonesia co-hosted a symposium at the National Library of Science of Indonesia to explore the role of science to support the SDGs, and to launch the SDG Hub at the University of Indonesia. This Hub was created to encourage a collaborative approach to implementing the SDGs.

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Meet Fairphone, the Ethical and Sustainable Smartphone

Causeartist: Sustainable Technology

Fairphone is a social enterprise that is committed to developing a fairer smartphone. The company was founded with the aim of creating a more sustainable and ethical supply chain for the electronics industry. The company works with partners across the supply chain to improve working conditions and environmental sustainability.

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Why the circular economy is the necessary next step

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

Plastic littering in the oceans. Climate change. Biodiversity loss and extinctions. These are just a few examples that make it evident that we are putting more strain on the Earth than it can handle. Several of the nine so-called planetary boundaries are reaching the zone of uncertainty, or even the zone where irreversible damage is done. On the upside, more and more initiatives are launched that are pushing in the right direction.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Innovative Ways Environmental Engineers Are Fighting Air Pollution

AAEE

Global economy spends more than a whopping $5 trillion on annual basis in indoor and outdoor combat against air pollution. With every human made war, there is a human thought solution. Thus, air engineering has taken a stance forward towards researching and performing tasks that understand, monitor, regulate and solve air pollution. Glasgow, The ‘Sens(e)ible’… The post Innovative Ways Environmental Engineers Are Fighting Air Pollution appeared first on AAEE.net - Environmental Engineering.

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Need a Lyft? Why the IPO blew a tire

MSCI

A week into the highly publicized IPO for Lyft Inc., the ride-sharing company, it’s hard to say it went exactly as planned.

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Indonesia SDG Symposium: Sustainability Science and Solutions in the era of the SDGs

Sustainable Development Network

On 29 April, 2019, SDSN Indonesia co-hosted a symposium at the National Library of Science of Indonesia to explore the role of science to support the SDGs, and to launch the SDG Hub at the University of Indonesia. This Hub was created to encourage a collaborative approach to implementing the SDGs. As one of the world’s largest economies, Indonesia has a critical role to play in the implementation of the SDGs.

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Uber, Lyft, and competition

Ryan Baker

The below article wonders if Uber/Lyft will ever be profitable. Seems likely to me they will. It's the belief that their promises aren't as grand as they make that will lead to that. When investors stop believing that, they'll stop funding discounts, and profitability will emerge seemingly spontaneously. It's probably less than what Uber is promising, as there will be competition.

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Why the circular economy is the necessary next step

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

Plastic littering in the oceans. Climate change. Biodiversity loss and extinctions. These are just a few examples that make it evident that we are putting more strain on the Earth than it can handle. Several of the nine so-called planetary boundaries are reaching the zone of uncertainty, or even the zone where irreversible damage is done. On the upside, more and more initiatives are launched that are pushing in the right direction.

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Amazon Solutions Forum / Convocatoria de Soluciones Innovadoras

Sustainable Development Network

portugues abaixo Achieving the SDGs by 2030 requires collaboration and interdisciplinary action from all sectors (public, private, academic, international organizations, and civil society). To advance progress in the Amazon region, the SDSN Amazon has posted a call for solutions from SDSN Members, to be presented in an online forum in the summer of 2019.

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

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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New Series Profiles how Sub-National Data Efforts Support SDG Achievement

Sustainable Development Network

In 2018, the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative ( LDA-SI ) selected five recipients for a microgrant program , aimed at developing sub-national solutions to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) monitoring. You can now read a synthesis report and project overviews from the grantees documenting data localization efforts in Aruba, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Colombia, Patiala (India), and Los Angeles (the United States).

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FEEM & SDSN Workshop: Roadmap toward Total Decarbonization in 2050

Sustainable Development Network

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and SDSN co-organized the “Roadmap toward Total Decarbonization in 2050” workshop that was held at FEEM’s headquarters in Milan on 2-3 April. Paolo Carnevale, FEEM Executive Director, Domenico Siniscalco, Morgan Stanley, and Jeffrey Sachs, SDSN Director, opened the workshop which gathered seventy technical experts from all over the world.

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Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States

Sustainable Development Network

Available now, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States provides a “legal playbook” for deep decarbonization in the United States, identifying well over 1,000 legal options for enabling the United States to address one of the greatest problems facing this country and the rest of humanity. It is based on the technical analysis in “Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States” by Jim Williams and the U.S. team of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.

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Food and Land-Use Coalition (FOLU) Launched in China & India

Sustainable Development Network

The Food and Land Use (FOLU) Coalition recently launched two new programs of work in India and China. In China the FOLU Platform will be coordinated by WRI China and is building on the ongoing work of the FABLE Consortium , which is led by the Center for Agricultural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and brings together experts from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University , Peking University , China Agricultural University and Tsinghua University.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Augmented Reality Defined with Opportunities

Daniel Burrus

Several years ago, I started using an augmented reality (AR) app for my smartphone whenever I ventured into the mountains. It was quite useful; I could point my device at any mountain to see information overlaid on the image. When I moved my device around, the information changed to correspond with what I saw. Google Glass was an early example of AR glasses.

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Don’t Miss AR’s Amazing Opportunities

Daniel Burrus

Augmented reality (AR) is a new industry growing at an exponential rate, loaded with opportunities for job creation. It offers a playground for entrepreneurs who want to use the certainty of Hard Trends to their advantage. What’s most exciting about AR is that it is much easier to develop than virtual reality (VR), which requires a lot of programming and photo-realistic graphics in order to create a fully immersive virtual world.

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2019 SDG Happiness Festival

Sustainable Development Network

Jakarta, 27-28 April, 2019. For the second year in a row, the SDG Happiness Festival was hosted in Jakarta with support from the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), SDSN Southeast Asia, Project Semesta, and United in Diversity (UID). The festival is inspired by the SDG Pyramid to Happiness , an initiative led by the UID which frames the 17 SDGs according to the three pathways to happiness rooted in Balinese belief, Tri Hita Karana.

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Why the circular economy is the necessary next step

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

Plastic littering in the oceans. Climate change. Biodiversity loss and extinctions. These are just a few examples that make it evident that we are putting more strain on the Earth than it can handle. Several of the nine so-called planetary boundaries are reaching the zone of uncertainty, or even the zone where irreversible damage is done. On the upside, more and more initiatives are launched that are pushing in the right direction.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Leaving out the little guy (adds up)

Ryan Baker

Excited about New York's new building energy efficiency measures, but a little worried about how it was done. There are too many exemptions here. Focusing on only large buildings (over 25,000 square feet) leaves half of emissions untargeted. Leaving out low-income housing keeps the utility bills for low-income renters high. This kind of exemption is a bad idea.

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Housing affordability and ownership bias

Ryan Baker

If we want housing affordability, we'll have to confront our bias toward home ownership. While it has some sound reasoning, it's a brush applied too broadly. The expression of this bias has often done real harm to lower income individuals and families. It's not possible to have constant, high appreciation of home values and affordable homes. It's not possible to have affordable rents and unaffordable homes (without subsidy).

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Big cities require good transit (or they're not really big at all)

Ryan Baker

Effective public transport increases the productivity of a city. Somewhat obvious, but the scale is not. A city without effective public transport is a smaller city. The network effects of being able to connect with others who might spawn ideas and opportunities are diminished by not having effective transport. Transit systems that rely upon buses without priority, which have their service level cut by the congestion of personal automobiles at peak times, suffer as a result.

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New York Congestion Charge

Ryan Baker

Chicago should also pursue congestion (road) pricing. Using a personal vehicle on city streets consumes limited road space we all paid for, creates pollution and other effects we all have to live with. When one alternative (transit) consumes these services at a much lower rate, and produces the negative effects at a much lower rate, it's unfair for the higher consumption/externality behavior to pay the same rate.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.