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

Academics

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.

Supply Chains

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.

Climate Change