Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This summer, it entered a technical recession after enjoying years of growth that outpaced much of the region. Other countries with deals include Bangladesh, Botswana, Indonesia, Jamaica and the Philippines. “As The country has had six presidents and several overhauls of congress since 2016.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2022

Let’s start by taking a closer look at the potential users of digital financial services – in this case, women living in rural areas of Bangladesh. According to 2017 Findex data , men are twice as likely as women to have access to both a mobile phone and internet in Bangladesh.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Syed Munir Khasru (Chair, SDSN Bangladesh, Chairman, IPAG, and Co-chair of Task Force 2 & 9, G20 Indonesia), the first session was moderated by Dr. Venkatachalam Anbumozhi (Director of Research Strategy and Innovation, ERIA). Lukas (Chairman, Indonesian Artificial Intelligence Society) - on behalf of SDSN Bangladesh.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 23, 2021

Press coverage was particularly prominent in Australia, Bangladesh, Finland, Italy, and Thailand. As in previous years, this latest edition has received far-reaching media coverage across the globe, including on the BBC , the Guardian , and Washington Post.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 15, 2020

FM Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Emerges as Regional Leader in SDG Global Ranking , Caspian News Azerbaijan outranks neighbors in UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Index , News.Az FM Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Emerges as Regional Leader in SDG Global Ranking , Caspian News Azerbaijan outranks neighbors in UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Index , News.Az

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Business and financial activities in “ APAC ”, the Asia / Pacific Basin Region are vital to the economies of the rest of the world. Think of the region’s leading sovereign economies…in order of magnitude, consider the impact of the economies of China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia (the top economies). May 24 2021.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Simon-Thorsten Wiebusch, Country Divisional Head, Crop Science Division of Bayer for India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka said: “Bayer’s commitment to rice cultivation is two-fold. Additional benefits expected from the program include water savings, soil health improvement, and enhanced community livelihoods for smallholder rice farmers.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Busy traffic at a central part of the city in Dhaka, Bangladesh (image credit: Shutterstock / Dmitry Chulov). A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. The researchers also found 1.5-

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2023

Since 2018, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and HERproject have been working together to scale up digital wages for garment factories and workers like Champi in Bangladesh, Egypt and Cambodia. Women represent nearly 60% of the garment workforce globally, reaching 80% in some regions.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 26, 2023

In the wake of September 2022’s Transforming Education Summit and the ESD-Net launch, UNESCO has organized sub-regional and regional meetings to convene relevant stakeholders to advise countries in the development and implementation of “country initiatives” to mainstream ESD into national sustainable development efforts.

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James Militzer

MAY 17, 2022

We might be appalled at the wages paid to workers in Bangladesh or Vietnam, but on closer inspection, it’s a fair exchange. In Bangladesh, the average wage in the factory and manufacturing sector is US $205 per month. times more expensive than it is in Bangladesh. where the cost of living is 6.1

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Regions that are already overwhelmed by climate shocks will be doubly hit. El Nino is likely to be disastrous for many African regions. The region has faced one of its worst droughts in over seven decades, and so El Nino may bring much-needed rain and alleviate some of the drought’s life-threatening effects.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

“It’s integral that governments are able to work with stakeholders to ensure that the measures that are being implemented for resilience and adaptation are done at a systemic not just an asset level to take account of inter-regional factors, for example,” she says. billion in funding overall.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Annual report shows the rapid expansion of the SDSN networks program and the impact of its 47 national, regional and thematic networks. While the overall membership of SDSN has grown by 17% compared to 2020, the number of knowledge institutions joining SDSN networks has almost doubled in certain regions (eg. SDSN Mexico).

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 26, 2022

A group of five selected global innovators from SDSN’s National and Regional Networks presented their breakthrough efforts, from Bangladesh, Cyprus, Thailand, Turkey, Colombia. The G-STIC conference, which hosted the GSF, was a great success, welcoming 3900 participants from 125 countries and 390 speakers onsite and online.

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James Militzer

APRIL 29, 2024

We recently concluded a project in Bangladesh — the Pushti Ambassadors Partnership — which aimed to increase women’s economic empowerment and improve nutrition in rural areas.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 20, 2023

Investment in energy infrastructure in Asia is vital to deliver low carbon transition across the region and bring its global carbon cost of GDP in line with the global average. The response is a “global partnership” with the region to deliver the technology and capital its needs to mitigate its impact on climate and nature.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2024

Advancing Asian opportunities Founded in 1991, Matthews has more than three decades of investment experience in Asia and launched its first dedicated sustainable strategy in the region in 2015. Since then, the manager has continued to build out its investment and analytical resources.

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James Militzer

JUNE 15, 2023

When, contrary to all expectations, a little-known experiment in the Bangladesh hinterland became the largest off-grid electrification program in the world , many people were amazed. ” Much of the information I discuss in this article is based on my research at the World Bank and in Bangladesh. Vijay Iyer. (I

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

In the same region, the largest volcanic region on Earth -with almost a hundred of volcanoes – was very recently uncovered. Last year I blogged about a study mentioning the possiblity for the entire Middle East region – half a billion people – to become unhabitable because of climate change.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Growth alone cannot be the measure for success, when it comes to securing full and productive employment – as Linda Germanis, Private Sector Engagement Specialist for the UN-DP in Bangladesh, and Brittany Burns, Director of Strategy at Fashion for Good, discuss in this episode.

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3BL Media

APRIL 26, 2024

Since then, we have successfully obtained this certification in all our sewing facilities in the Dominican Republic, and we are on our way to achieving it in our other regions of operation as well. For instance, our facilities in Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Bangladesh are equipped with on-site health clinics.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And yet remarkably few regions, even in wealthy countries, have useful, up-to-date flood maps because of the cost and difficulty of creating them.”. Layers of Landsat information for a selected region and specified timeframe identifies temporary and permanent water bodies while integrating site-specific elevation and land-use data.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2022

With the watershed project helping to make farming viable in the region, it was equally important to ensure local women had the ability to earn income. A key part of the project was involving local women and setting up self-help groups (SHGs) that included education on women’s rights and skills development.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Taxonomy regulations have been launched in the ASEAN region, Colombia, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. High-level guidance has also been published in Bangladesh. Also, geographically, there are inconsistencies and gaps because getting data from certain countries or regions remains a challenge.”.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 29, 2021

Bangladesh was the most improved. Despite its wealth and technological prowess, the US ranks 30th out of 37 OECD countries. Finland ranked number one. The US has made little to no national government efforts to implement the SDGs or to incorporate them into any sectoral action plans, national budget, or guiding documents. We must do better.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 2, 2022

Overall, East and South Asia is the region that progressed most on the SDGs since their adoption in 2015. Bangladesh and Cambodia are the two countries that progressed most on the SDGs since 2015. Yet even these countries face major challenges in achieving several SDGs. Christian Kroll | c.kroll@alumni.lse.ac.uk

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This week, representatives from eight very diverse countries (Bangladesh, Columbia, Ghana, Mongolia, Nepal, Paraguay, Rwanda, and Senegal) convened in Kigali, Rwanda to discuss priority data needs; specifically, the kinds of timely (even real-time) data they need to effectively track sustainable development.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 13, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA Other findings of the Sustainable Development Report 2021 East and South Asia has progressed more on the SDGs than any other region, both since 2010 and since the adoption of the goals in 2015. Some of the countries that progressed most also started from lower baselines.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2022

But though this reality is discouraging, both for African women and the continent’s—and eventually the world’s—economy, it can provide a promising new development opportunity for the region, provided the right steps are taken by leaders and the public alike. Rachita Sharma is the CEO of Girl Power Talk. Photo courtesy of Vu Hoang.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Alex Fischer of Oxford University presented his research on the interoperability of data relating to water quality in Bangladesh. The first panel session, chaired by TReNDS co-chair Shaida Badiee of Open Data Watch , focused on lessons from SDSN’s Reconciling Development Data Solution Initiative.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2023

Sydney, Australia (seventh place), or example, engaged very actively in the survey this year and was able to move up 19 positions from its rank last year by showing it has robust sustainability policies, coming up right below Oceania leader Auckland (sixth), with their best-in-region climate adaptation and resilience policies.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2023

Whether investigating the use of forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region, starvation wages at Bangladeshi sweatshops or sickness caused by pollution from mining operations in the Amazon, CORE would bring offenders to heel and help ensure that conditions improved. The agency has been hobbled in a number of ways.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Making the best use of process digitisation can save a lot of time and money — as long as digitisation is adapted to the realities of last-mile regions, and especially to rural ones. BRAC , one of the largest NGOs in the Global South, provides an example of the business impact of boosting the inclusion of underserved customer segments.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In particular, investors need support grappling with the localised nature of adaptation-related risks, says Vicky Sins, WBA’s Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead. “Even though climate adaptation goals are determined at a global level, they need to be translated and executed across specific regions and sectors,” she adds.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 14, 2022

During Evergreen Week, teams throughout the company showed appreciation for each other and demonstrated why Regions is the best place to work. SOURCE: Regions Bank. Every September, Regions sets aside a special week to celebrate its associates. Then he added, “If you’re new to Regions, you’re in for a real treat.”.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

To some, the most important effect of globalization has been the rise in global living standards through the expansion of the middle class and the sizable reductions in poverty in countries — such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bangladesh — that have leveraged export-oriented production and trade to their advantage.

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