Green Project Management

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Sustainable Development Goal #9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation In this installment of our series on the SDGs, we look at #9 of 17. This goal encompasses three key aspects of sustainable development: Infrastructure, innovation, and industrialization. Two specific targets that are outlined are for the three aspects are […].

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There has never been a shortage of trends, and it’s predictable that, as we near the end of every year, a new batch of trends will be published. The real problem for you is figuring out which ones will happen. I have been publishing a list of top trends since 1983, and if you have been a subscriber to my newsletter for decades, you know they have been highly accurate.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 23, 2016

SDSN Spain (REDS) launched the Spanish edition of the SDG Index & Dashboard in Madrid on December 12. The event had two main objectives: to present the SDG Index , a global report and country ranking prepared by SDSN and the Bertelsmann Foundation in July 2016; and to assess where Spain is situated in this ranking and why. In addition, REDS wanted to give an opportunity to the different representatives of the state, regional and local administrations, as well as the business sector, to prese

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EJOLT

DECEMBER 21, 2016

This blog was first published at [link]. By Sofia Avila. In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth.

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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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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The high number of retail executives and owners who think that the good, old days of brick-and-mortar retail are behind us amazes me; and if you were to ask them to name the one company that has caused the largest number of retailers to close up shop, they would say that it’s Amazon. Now, as they say, turnabout is fair play. Internet behemoth Amazon now plans to dive headfirst into the grocery store market.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Like someone who balks at throwing out a threadbare T-shirt unfit to wear in public, many organizations are slow, or even hesitant, to upgrade their legacy system technology. The reasons for this can vary from the fact that all of their systems are running on it, to the time and expense of modernization, to a more watered-down rationale: “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?”.

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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. This COP was unique for a variety of reasons, not least of all for introducing the first Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) hosted by the Government of Morocco and co-organized by SDSN, the World Bu

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Malaysia Takes Leading Role on Sustainable Development Malaysia established itself as a leader in the global effort to promote sustainable development with the official launch of the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development at Sunway University. The Center is the first of its kind in Asia. The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Sri Mohd.

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