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Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use

Sustainable Development Network

A landmark report by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) , Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use , is the first to assess the benefits of transforming food and land use systems worldwide, as well as the mounting costs of inaction – calling on global leaders to act now and advancing the economic case for change.

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FOLU Growing Better Report Launches in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, and Germany

Sustainable Development Network

The Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) recently launched its landmark report Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, and Germany.

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Concrete actions to increase the sustainability of food and land still missing from COP26 climate pledges 

Sustainable Development Network

A new report by SDSN’s Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker explores the extent to which key countries include transformations of food and land systems—necessary to meet both climate and Sustainable Development Goals—in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted before COP26.

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The Role of Sustainable Development Solutions Networks (SDSNs) in the protection of the environment

Sustainable Development Network

Society, Economy and Environment are the three pillars for sustainable development, therefore, environmental protection is expressed directly through Goals 13 (Climate action), 14 (Life Below Water), 15 (Life on Land) and indirectly through Goals 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

Placards and microphones weren’t the only tools they used. Ten days earlier, seven Ontario youth appeared in court virtually to challenge the provincial government’s decision to gut its climate targets in 2018. “We Presented by. The oceans are rising and so are we,” chanted a chorus of climate strikers marching through Manhattan.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

This along with an end to fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 is the timeline business needs to help get us on track. As we approach the critical final stages of COP26, the We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to take bold decisions to keep the 1.5°C Anything less will simply not be enough to put us on track for 1.5°C.

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