In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission coined the term “planetary health” to focus on interactions between environmental and human health. Since then, groups such as the Lancet, The Planetary Health Alliance and the U.N. Health and Environmental Linkages Initiativehave given growing attention to the influence of environmental conditions on human health. Most recently, the United Nations Environment Program published…
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Global Compact Türkiye Sürdürülebilir Finansman Bildirgesi Güncellendi
Global Compact Türkiye finansman kuruluşlarının kredilendirme politikalarına sürdürülebilirlik ölçütlerini yerleştirmelerinin, sürdürülebilirlik olgusunu geniş kesimlere ulaştırmada önemli rol oynayacağına inanıyor. Bu kapsamda hazırlanan ve 2017 yılında Akbank, Garanti Bankası, ING Bank, İş Bankası, Şekerbank, Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası ve Yapı Kredi tarafından imzalanan “Global Compact Türkiye Sürdürülebilir Finansman Bildirgesi” Türkiye’de finans sektöründeki mevcut uygulamaları daha ileri…
Sustainable business is good business: Creating financial tipping points for the Global Goals
Almost four years into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is clear that the actions we are taking are not transformational enough, nor at the scale and pace needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In some critical areas, we actually are moving backward. Take women’s empowerment as an example. We are…
Private firms have ‘critical role’ in sustainable development
GRI challenges governments and companies to work closer together on SDG reporting. Amsterdam, 3 April 2019 – GRI chairman Eric Hespenheide has called for greater cooperation between businesses and governments to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Following the GRI Board of Directors holding their bi-annual meeting in India, GRI today (3 April) partnered with the Bombay Stock Exchange to hold a special dialogue event in Mumbai entitled…
GRI and the UN Global Compact announce continued collaboration to advance business reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals
Amsterdam, 21 February 2019 — GRI and the United Nations Global Compact have announced their continued partnership to develop best practices for corporate reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), empowering businesses to prioritize SDG targets and measure and report on progress. The Action Platform on Reporting on the SDGs, led by the two organizations, was…
UN Unveils Alliance to Combat the ‘Destructive Practices of Fashion’
The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion – launched last week at the UN Environment Assembly – seeks to halt the environmentally and socially destructive practices of fashion. The alliance hopes it will “harness the industry as a driver for improving the world’s ecosystems.” The alliance says it will analyze the efforts of UN agencies, identify…
United Nations World Water Development Report 2019
Commemorating World Water Day, a pivot event will be hosted on 19 March 2019 at the Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations Office at Geneva. During the event, the United Nations World Water Development Report 2019 will be launched and the winner of the Stockholm Water Prize announced. Source: http://www.unwater.org/launch-of-the-un-world-water-development-report-commemoration-of-world-water-day/
Integrating the Global Goals into day-to-day business operations (Peter Bakker & Tim Mohin)
The United Nations developed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 with the idea of institutionalizing “a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges facing our world,” according to the United Nations website. They replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)…
Report: Companies Committed to UN Global Compact Perform Better Across Supply Chains
EcoVadis, a provider of business sustainability ratings, has published a new report on sustainability performance comparisons between organizations who have committed to the UN Global Compact principles vs. those that have not. Taking a deep dive into performance across key themes of environment, labor and human rights, business ethics and sustainable procurement, EcoVadis found that committed companies…
Sustainability: Commission presents a reflection paper on a more sustainable Europe by 2030
Brussels, 30 January 2019 As part of the debate on the future of Europe, launched with the Commission’s White Paper of 1 March 2017, the Commission is today publishing a Reflection Paper on a Sustainable Europe by 2030. Announced as a follow-up to President Juncker’s 2017 State of the Union Address, today’s Paper forms…
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