3BL Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Wine and Agricultural Ethical Trade Association T/A WIETA was the first South African social standard, established in 2002, to establish an appropriate social auditing methodology for fruit and wine suppliers in South Africa. For more information, visit www.tcgfssci.com. About The Consumer Goods Forum.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 15, 2023

Founded more than 25 years ago , Cisco Networking Academy continues to be one of the longest-standing IT skills-to-jobs programs of its kind, in the world. Change has always been at the core of the Networking Academy program’s offerings. I am thrilled to share the five Cisco Networking Academy Golden Bridge Award Winners for 2023.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity. Science Based Targets Network, 2020. Liesl Truscott. Thu, 12/03/2020 - 01:00. This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 24, 2023

Purpose has driven Cisco Networking Academy—one of the world’s longest-running IT skills-to-jobs education programs—for the last 25 years. Opportunities must be available “for all,” and this continues to motivate our programs, platforms, and curriculum at Cisco Networking Academy. Educating the learners who connect the world.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the involvement of 32 partnerships, the fund will enable organisations in the UK to connect with countries including the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, India, Singapore and South Africa to boost space research and new tech investment. What type of space projects will receive the funding?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 7, 2023

With every facet of the event’s production driving local economic investment, skill training and youth entrepreneurship, the first Move Afrika concert signalled the launch of a five-year incremental tour schedule that will pioneer a world-class music touring circuit across the continent, changing the face of live entertainment in Africa.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This year’s report shows the growing global role of the SDSN, the world’s leading network of knowledge institutions, and the expansion of the program to 50 national, regional, and thematic networks. The Networks program of SDSN launched its first network in 2013 and has experienced continuous growth ever since.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

gigatonnes of carbon emissions over the next 20 years. Working out these specifics takes time, adds Katherine Stodulka, Chair of the Blended Finance Taskforce, a global coalition housed by Systemiq and launched in 2017 to tackle barriers to net zero. “The JETP funding mechanism must work for the country [in question],” she says.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bank team members are also participating in networking events and teaching financial education classes to YBLA youth. After graduation, he launched a video production business. But it was a 2019YBLA mission trip to South Africa to build a home where Roddey’s creativity truly took root. Lauri Mumford is one of them.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The appointment follows the launch last year of PwC’s new global strategy , The New Equation, focused on helping clients build trust across a wide range of topics that are important to their stakeholders, and delivering sustained outcomes.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

The government of South Africa, in partnership with several other just energy leaders, is working to accelerate the decarbonization of the South African economy. Innovative ventures The Futur-e project is an initiative launched by Enel Group, a global energy company, with a focus on facilitating a just energy transition.

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2023

In 2021 and 2022, we launched new campaigns and initiatives that focused on challenging narratives about mental health and encouraged civic engagement, while continuing to explore issues of racial justice, the climate crisis, public health awareness, and more. The film won an Emmy and a Peabody Award in 2021.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2022

After five years running everything from procurement to distribution to licensing in the UK arm of Nando’s, a South African fast-food chain with more than 1,200 locations in 30 countries, South Africa-born Gary Campbell thought he knew the business of large-scale food delivery inside and out.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

New WBE research from KWR Water Research Institute in the Netherlands, one of the first organisations to launch a sewage surveillance programme, was also presented. South Africa launches WBE programme. The sewage water curve ‘reacts’ about a week before hospital admission. The interviews can be viewed here.

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2022

However, these organizations typically struggle with critical business challenges and need support in areas such as strategic planning, developing business processes, and growing their network. We have recently launched an online version of the entrepreneur program and we are expanding it not only in South Africa, but globally.”.

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3BL Media

MAY 18, 2022

SIZA, the Sustainability Initiative of South Africa, is enabling the South African agricultural sector to become a global leader in sustainable farming, ethical trade, and environmental stewardship. The aim is to encourage continuous improvement in practices over time. For more information, visit www.tcgfssci.com.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 22, 2022

SDSN had a milestone year where we celebrated our 10-year anniversary and launched our new Secretariat office in Kuala Lumpur. A number of our networks, programs, and teams supported the progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Take a look back at 2022 with us.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2023

This was also true at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt in November, where a central thrust was negotiating what’s called loss-and-damage funding for the Global South based on the devastating impacts of historic emissions from the Global North on many of the world’s poorest cities. Cape Town 57. Abidjan 59. Nairobi 61. Johannesburg 66.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In Indonesia and South Africa, for example, coal still fuels over 50% of all power generation. A case study in coal retirement The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) was launched in 2021 to help developing nations end their reliance on fossil fuels — especially coal — and shift to cleaner energy sources.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

SDSN had a busy 2021 where a number of our networks, programs, and teams supported the progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. The 2021 Networks in Action report, launched in November, features all the major accomplishments of these national, regional and thematic networks.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 12, 2023

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched the +1 Global Fund , a network-based platform that leverages peer nominations to discover small, earlier-stage organizations in the Global South. Across Africa, Guzakuza connects and supports women facing food system challenges.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The platform’s successful launch in 2023 significantly improved the scalability of Darsel’s program in Jordan and allowed it to rapidly grow from under 100 schools to over 2000. Cisco’s collaboration with Darsel is now focused on replicating its success in other countries, including Nigeria and India where 100-school pilots are ongoing.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 15, 2022

The University of Pretoria launched the new national network during a hybrid event at the Future Africa campus. On 2 March 2022, the University of Pretoria (UP) launched the SDSN South African Network during a hybrid event at the prestigious Future Africa campus.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 1, 2019

Its framework was developed by The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). The initiative’s outputs include Regional Decarbonization Pathways Reports and a White Paper, which were discussed at the first Pathways Project Webinar on July 24, 2019.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After a successful first edition in 2022, and due to the great interest shown by SDSN’s network’s universities to reiterate the experience, four of the universities who ran in 2022 have signed up again: Tsinghua University in China , the University of Göttingen in Germany and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Five universities participated in this first edition: Tsinghua University (China), University of Pretoria (South Africa), University of Göttingen (Germany), Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Arizona State University (USA). The winning solution will be awarded 10,000 USD for further development and implementation.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

There are 69 eligible low-income countries who stand to benefit from the reallocation of SDRs, many of which are in Africa. Africa accounts for just 3-4 percent of global emissions, yet finds itself on the frontlines of the effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

One clear finding from this year’s report is that its impact on health disproportionately affects poorer regions, with exposure levels particularly high in cities in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The approach, which reduces dust, particulates, and the use of coal, is seemingly now being rolled out across South East Asia.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2022

Our national network has grown to include 40 local collaboratives in urban, rural, and tribal communities that are home to more than 3 million young people. Central to this is a shared framework that the OYF network has refined over time, containing seven components: Collaborating for impact. Building effective pathways.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 11, 2023

Less than 5 percent of overall international humanitarian funding reaches local organizations, and, for example, research by the Bridgespan Group shows that African organizations get only about 11 percent of all philanthropic funding invested in Africa.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s imperative, too, that international and local non-profits come together to create networks that will lobby for change and push disengaged stakeholders to engage and transform. Public institutions must also lead and coalitions between state-owned companies, private industry will be critical.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment, which launched in 2019, has been a model for this pre-competitive collaborative approach to driving action in the U.S. From the outset, leaders of the PCFWC intended to build and prove a model that could scale.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

“Climate tools have gone from being used for exploratory analyses to now being really central, not only in climate disclosures under TCFD, but also in regulatorily mandated stress tests,” said David Carlin, TCFD Programme Lead, UNEP FI, speaking at a webinar to launch the report. “In Technology innovation.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Over time, rural women of India, as women of many Global South communities, have found ways to leapfrog legal, societal, and colonial constrictions chiseled on their lifeworld and longings. Be it through WGWLO in South Asia or La Via Campesina in South America.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 19, 2021

SDSN and our networks hosted a number of events alongside the UN's High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). We invited our networks and the SDG community to join us at the following events, which SDSN hosted or were organized by our partners. Event summaries are below.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 12, 2023

The latest net zero signals of change include a solar boost for South Africa’s grid and a successful energy efficiency trial for UK companies. GFANZ confirmed that the chapter will launch in June, and will support local financial institutions to decarbonize their investments and help the country to meet its net zero goal.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

SDSN and our network partners hosted a variety of events alongside the UNGA. Launch of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition September 16, 12:15 - 13:45 EDT | Watch the full event. Below you'll find recordings and summaries of those events. Decarbonizing the world energy system by mid-century to meet the 1.5°

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