Please see below recent sustainable development-related change. (Each headline relates to one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.)
See also:
- What's New? - Sustainability
- What's Changing? - Environment
- What's Changing? - Nature
- What's Changing? - Regeneration
- On Development
- On the SDGs
Our World in Data developed SDG-Tracker.org, which aims to provide a clear way to track global, regional and national progress across the 17 Goals, 169 Targets, and 232 Indicators of the SDGs. A recent update is now live in the tracker. Gaps in data availability remain: where there is no known data for a given indicator, OWID marks this clearly and invites users to notify them if there is data for these indicators that they may have missed. This open approach aims to support the UN in developing the most comprehensive coverage of how we're doing in our progress to 2030.
July 2024
- It is hard to measure individual effects on the environment, but one tool that could help map potential impactful changes is the Sustainable Consumption Index. The index uses data-driven insights to help individuals and decision-makers in business and government assess and implement carbon emission reduction efforts. Decision-makers could use the Index’s models to gain a more holistic view of the emissions impact of consumers’ purchasing decisions, enabling them to maximise impact when designing products and policies that support and incentivise shifts toward more sustainable choices.
May 2024
- Companies are pulling back on mentions of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in their financial reporting, according to an analysis by Bloomberg. There was a 60% drop in mentions of ESG in the US and a 10% drop in Europe in the financial filings of the top 100 companies there.
January 2024
- An article in the Harvard Business Review identified a moment of change for Chief Sustainability Officers, relevant to anyone working in corporate sustainability. Until now companies have been setting targets, communicating them and working towards them. (Relatively) quick wins have been made, and the harder stuff, the expensive stuff and the transformational stuff is what is left.
September 2023
- Back in 2015, every single UN member state agreed to a set of 17 development benchmarks to achieve by 2030 that would help fight climate change while also fostering economic growth. Halfway to the deadline, the UN’s own report on the progress painted a bleak picture. Progress on half of the targets is insufficient, and another 30% have stalled or even regressed. The number of people living in extreme poverty, for example, is rising for the first time in a generation and is on track to reach 575 million by 2030.
October 2022
- The Economist warned that the contradictions in ESG are becoming brutally clear. It is the mission of companies to generate long-term value for their investors. That might sometimes align with the aim of decarbonisation. Unfortunately, it will often be more profitable for a business to dump costs, such as pollution, on to society than to bear them directly. And in places without a consensus on climate policy, getting involved in greenery can bring clashes with both regulators and investors. Unless governments resolve the dilemma, ESG is doomed to fall short on actions.
September 2022
- The pandemic wiped out years of progress toward achieving the 17 SDGs, the UN's blueprint for making the world a better place by 2030. There’s no way the deadline will be met at the current pace, which is why UN chief António Guterres has made the UN General Assembly's 2022 agenda all about rescuing the SDGs. COVID particularly hurt SDG No. 4 - to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all - because extended school lockdowns and unequal access to remote learning meant many kids learned less or nothing at all, which will lead to them having fewer opportunities as adults. noted Quartz.
March 2022
- In the early 2000s, when the internet was fast becoming integral to the lives of ordinary people, most businesses had to make a choice. They could change what they did or how they did it, often radically. Or they could stick to the status quo and try to weather the storm. Quartz asked: what happened to those that didn’t adapt, like video-rental giants and booksellers that didn’t take online rivals seriously? Many are gone. We may now be at a similar inflection point when it comes to sustainability. Sustainability might once have been seen as a nice-to-have, but not any more. Now, the combined pressure from customers, employees, prospective employees and regulators puts companies at another crossroads: either tackle and reduce the damage they do to the planet and its people, or risk going out of business entirely.
September 2021
- Sustainability is rapidly remaking whole industries, blurring and in some cases obliterating boundaries between industries, and generating new waves of growth. The scale of the disruption that will play out over the next few decades, along with the opportunity it creates, will be enormous Just the push to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C will drive a massive transformation of the global economy and require investments totaling an estimated $100 trillion to $150 trillion by 2050, estimated BCG.
- SDG Goal 1 is to end poverty, but over 100 million people were pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020. Goal 3 is to end gender equality, but 10 million girls will be at risk of child marriage over the next ten years as a direct result of the pandemic.
May 2021
- The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is a proposed amendment to the EU’s sustainability reporting requirements. The CSRD will considerably expand the scope of non-financial reporting requirements to both cover more companies and require more comprehensive disclosures. The CSRD - which is due to come into effect in 2023 - is timely, as growing concerns about corporate greenwashing prompted calls for stronger regulatory action in the US and UK.
- Future Today Institute identified leading practices in sustainable metrics:
- The current hottest startup in Silicon Valley? Backed by legendary investors at Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, Watershed’s platform helps companies measure, reduce and report their CO2 emissions. Its big differentiator: granular, supplier-level data rather than benchmarked averages. Go deep on their vision here.
- Partnering with Mastercard, the Swedish startup Doconomy’s 2030 Calculator allows brands and manufacturers to calculate the environmental impact of their products. 90 million customers can now see it in action thanks to Klarna showing carbon footprint information to its 90 million shoppers.
- Pachama uses lidar, satellite images and AI to verify and monitor the carbon benefit in a particular forest at any given time, enabling its customers to buy trustworthy carbon credits.
- Stella McCartney partnered with Google to measure the impact of specific raw materials in relation to key environmental factors such as air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water scarcity
March 2021
- Technologies that capture carbon and turn it into a source of value are accelerating; driven by partnerships, venture financing, and government programmes. Carbon removal may be an important new tool for CEOs who want to shift corporate sustainability from a reporting-led function to a value-led focus. For EY, rapidly advancing technologies are driving a new question when it comes to sustainability: is merely becoming carbon neutral enough?
February 2021
- Investors are becoming increasingly more concerned about the environmental, social and governance consequences (ESG) of their investment decisions, with sustainable funds drawing over $51 billion in new investments in 2020 — more than double the previous record, according to a Morningstar report. Younger generations, in particular, want more than just a financial return, per The Economist. Morgan Stanley research finds that those under 35 are twice as likely to sell a stock if they consider a company to be environmentally or socially unsustainable.
January 2021
- McKinsey argued that the growth opportunities that a green economy portends could be substantial. Global investment company BlackRock noted in its 2021 Global Outlook that, “contrary to past consensus,” it expects that the shift to sustainability will “help enhance returns” and that “the tectonic shift towards sustainable investing is accelerating.” Green growth opportunities abound across massive sectors such as energy, mobility, and agriculture. Just as digital-economy companies have powered stock-market returns in the past couple of decades, so green-technology companies could play that role in the coming decades.
December 2020
- Countries and companies had been making steady progress, but a 2020 UN report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) showed a painful reversal in almost every indicator. For the first time in 20 years, the number of people in extreme poverty rose. Hundreds of millions of jobs were lost or reduced. Women in particular took a hard hit on decades of progress toward equality in the workplace.
- From 2020 onwards, for the latest developments, see What's New? - Sustainability.
May 2020
- It’s a lot easier to put purpose above profit when cash is flush and times are good, argued the FT. Now that companies’ standard operations are being upended by the coronavirus pandemic, we’re going to see just how much they value their sustainability goals - and whether those goals survive when a business is just trying to stay afloat. In recent years there was more interest in responsible capitalism than ever before. Between 2017 and 2020 there was a jobs bonanza in stewardship and sustainable investing teams. Corporate leaders called for unprecedented carbon emission reductions. How will those trends change in the post-pandemic era? Will social responsibility overshadow environmental responsibility as companies emerge from the crisis?
January 2020
- It no longer looks a faraway deadline: 2030 is when the world is supposed to meet the Sustainable Development Goals aimed at making the world a fairer, cleaner, safer world for all.
- The SDG500, backed by a coalition of public and private organisations, NGOs, and a private equity firm, is a blended finance initiative set to invest $500 million in businesses working to achieve the SDGs.
- The World Benchmarking Alliance named the 2,000 most influential companies for a sustainable future in an effort to measure the private sector's impact and efforts in sustainability.
- The Standard Chartered SDG Investment Map examined investment opportunities associated with three SDGs: clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy and industry, innovation and infrastructure.
- The private sector isn't engaging enough with the development community to advance the SDGs, according to a new report by Devex. "Leading the Charge on the SDGs," produced in partnership with Verizon, uncovers some of the most compelling best practices that CEOs and other corporate leaders can adopt to advance the SDGs.
- Further reading:
- SDG 00. Making sustainability our standard - BlackRock
- SDG 01. Chinese province: Just 17 of our 80m people now live in poverty - BBC News
- SDG 02. Famine Deaths Have Plummeted Globally - Beautiful News
- SDG 02. How We Are Beating Hunger in 5 Graphs - HumanProgress
- SDG 07. New membrane enables us to harvest 'osmotic' energy from water - Big Think
- SDG 07. Renewable Energy Prices Hit Record Lows: How Can Utilities Benefit From Unstoppable Solar And Wind? - Forbes
- SDG 12. How proptech can improve the energy performance of buildings - Raconteur
- SDG 13. "Australia: you have just experienced the future - Ed Hawkins on Twitter
- SDG 13. Apocalypse Becomes the New Normal - The New York Times
- SDG 13. CEOs: time to act on climate change to build an inclusive, sustainable world - EY
- SDG 13. Climate risk and response - McKinsey
- SDG 13. Democracies are ill-suited to deal with climate change - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Hottest decade ever recorded ‘driven by man-made climate change’ - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Ignoring climate risk is more costly than grappling with it - Financial Times
- SDG 13. See how climate change has impacted the world since your childhood - ABC News
- SDG 13. This is how people around the world view climate change, according to a European Investment Bank survey - World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. What Do People Really Believe About Climate Change? - HBR
- SDG 14. Hidden Worlds in our Oceans - WEF Davos 2020
- SDG 14. Sustainable fisheries: Navigating a sea of troubles with advanced analytics - McKinsey
- SDG 14. UN Envoy: ocean changes like science fiction - Raconteur
- SDG 14. What’s the catch? - Trade negotiators have missed a deadline to help protect fish stocks - The Economist
- SDG 15. Maps of nitrous oxide emissions, a potent greenhouse gas - Quartz
- SDG 15. This is how trees could help solve the climate crisis - World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. We Might Not Be Planting the Right Kinds of Forests - WIRED
- SDG 15. What is desertification and how is it impacting climate change? - World Economic Forum
December 2019
- SDG 00. SDG Challenge 2019 - PwC
- SDG 02. Zimbabwe facing man-made starvation, says UN expert - UN News
- SDG 06. The business of water scarcity - Quartz
- SDG 07. Dutch Company to Light a Million Nigerian Homes With Solar - Bloomberg
- SDG 07. Renewable energy milestone reached in 2019 - Financial Times
- SDG 07. The Cost of Solar and Wind Energy is Plunging - Beautiful News
- SDG 13, Planting trees alone will not stop global warming - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Could Air-Conditioning Fix Climate Change? - Scientific American
- SDG 13. Firms that analyse climate risks are the latest hot property - The Economist
- SDG 13. On thin ice - COP25, the UN climate talks in Madrid, ends in a sad splutter | Science and technology - The Economist
- SDG 13. Poor scores - Climate change has made ESG a force in investing | Finance and economics - The Economist
- SDG 13. We Have Climate Leaders. Now We Need Followers. - The New York Times
- SDG 14. Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean - The Atlantic
November 2019
- SDG 00. Business must deliver value beyond profit - Raconteur
- SDG 00. Sustainability at a tipping point - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 06. The power of water - Raconteur
- SDG 06. Water Access - Raconteur
- SDG 06. Water.org: water can be the bedrock of economies - Raconteur
- SDG 06. Whatever happened to the water wars? - The Economist
- SDG 07. Energy Efficiency - Financial Times
- SDG 07. Energy efficiency of the future in 5 remarkable innovations - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Energy Transition - Raconteur
- SDG 13 How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts - WIRED
- SDG 13. "We're heading to the hottest Arctic fall season in 3M years. Entire basin & Greenland 16°C to 28°C warmer than normal - Twitter
- SDG 13. Climate Change Might Hit Economy Harder and Faster Than Thought - Bloomberg
- SDG 13. Climate Change, A Human Rights Issue - UN Global Compact
- SDG 13. Climate tipping points: too risky to bet against - Nature
- SDG 13. Climate, Food and Land - Chatham House
- SDG 13. Corruption and Climate Change - IAI TV
- SDG 13. Drastic changes needed to alleviate climate crisis, says IEA - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Five things I’ve learnt about saving the world - Financial Times
- SDG 13. I Got a Vasectomy Because of Climate Change - Outside Online
- SDG 13. The past, present and future of climate change - The Economist
- SDG 13. The world’s climate goals are not sufficient. They are also unlikely to be met - The Economist
- SDG 13. There is one way forward on climate change - Financial Times
- SDG 14. How Cheap Robots Are Transforming Ocean Exploration - Outside Online
- SDG 15. Extinction crisis: how can we end the illegal wildlife trade? - Financial Times
- SDG 15. How conservation investment could be a lifeline for endangered species - Financial Times
October 2019
- SDG 00. Can business tread more lightly on the planet? - The Economist
- SDG 00. It’s time for sustainability to get radical - Raconteur
- SDG 00. The SDG Investments Africa Needs by Donald P. Kaberuka - Project Syndicate
- SDG 01. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2019 - UN
- SDG 01. Naomi Campbell on the UN’s Global Goal to end poverty - Raconteur
- SDG 01. Nobel Prize in economics won by trio for work on easing poverty - Financial Times
- SDG 02. Climate means 29m more go hungry: World Food Programme - Raconteur
- SDG 02. Nutrition and children: one in three are not getting what they need - World Economic Forum
- SDG 03. The ‘Elder’ pushing for universal health coverage - Financial Times
- SDG 07. Energy and economy--a quick briefing and deeper dive - McKinsey
- SDG 07. Groundbreaking deal sees UK universities source energy directly from wind farms - Futures Centre
- SDG 07. How women in India are tackling the rural energy crisis with solar power - World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. World's largest offshore wind farm can power 1 million homes - Big Think
- SDG 13, The Climate Hunters - Reuters
- SDG 13. 185 Countries Have Signed & Ratified the Paris Climate Agreement - Beautiful News
- SDG 13. 5 ways we need to adapt to climate change — or pay the price - Grist
- SDG 13. AI and Climate Change: How they’re connected, and what we can do about it - Medium
- SDG 13. Flipping the Script on Climate Action - BCG
- SDG 13. Major Environmental Groups Call On Businesses To Lead On Climate Policy - Environmental Defense Fund
- SDG 13. The three types of climate change denial - Quartz
- SDG 14. 300 million face annual coastline flooding by 2050: study - Phys.org
- SDG 14. Blue Economy: 5 African nations poised for maritime growth - Raconteur
- SDG 15. Global wildlife trade a key factor in species decline - Financial Times
- SDG 15. India's tiger population increases due to conservation efforts | Futures Centre
- SDG 15. The millennials giving African farming an image boost - World Economic Forum
- SDG 16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions – #TOGETHERBAND
September 2019
- SDG 00. Delivering UN Global Goals demands plans, not speeches - Raconteur
- SDG 00. Goalkeepers 2019 - Gates Foundation
- SDG 00. GSDR 2019 .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
- SDG 00. Refining sustainability reporting for investors - McKinsey
- SDG 00. SDG Summit 2019
- SDG 00. Sustainability at a tipping point | Sustainability | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 02. Five gruesome truths about the sorry state of the global food industry - Quartz
- SDG 02. Fixing the business of food - Fixing Food
- SDG 06. Zimbabwe drought leaves two million people without clean water - CNN
- SDG 07 . Offshore wind is on the rise, but what does the future hold? - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Peak energy, peak oil, and the rise of renewables: An executive’s guide to the global energy system - McKinsey
- SDG 07. The Low Carbon Economy Index 2019 - PwC UK
- SDG 07. The world is investing less in clean energy - The Economist
- SDG 12. Why industry is going green on the quiet - The Guardian
- SDG 13. A global climate change wakeup call for CEOs - McKinsey
- SDG 13. Are dictatorships better than democracies at fighting climate change? - The Economist
- SDG 13. Boom town: Greenland’s climate change gold rush - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments - The Economist
- SDG 13. Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks - BBC News
- SDG 13. Don’t panic. Yet. | Climate change – the scale of the problem and the possible solutions - TLS
- SDG 13. Flipping the Script on Climate Action - BCG
- SDG 13. Hard-wired to ignore the climate crisis? - Financial Times
- SDG 13. How global warming makes hurricanes more severe - The Economist
- SDG 13. Humanity will find ways to adapt to climate change - The Economist
- SDG 13. Island states have had an outsized influence on climate policy - The Economist
- SDG 13. Predicting the climatic future is riddled with uncertainty - The Economist
- SDG 13. Tackling climate change — an investor’s guide - Financial Times
- SDG 13. The hard truths of climate change by the numbers - Nature
- SDG 13. The past, present and future of climate change - The Economist
- SDG 13. The Role of Green Projects in Scaling Climate Investments - BCG
- SDG 13. Unearthed: last days of the Anthropocene - Meanjin
- SDG 13. What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? - The New Yorker
- SDG 14, The last of the great explorers - 1843
- SDG 14. Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea - Chatham House
- SDG 14. UN IPCC report predicts dramatic, devastating sea level rise if warming continues - Quartz
- SDG 14. UN panel signals red alert on 'Blue Planet' - BBC News
- SDG 15. A million species of plant and animal are at risk of extinction - The Economist
- SDG 15. Could the Circular Bioeconomy Help Save the Amazon? - Chatham House
- SDG 15. Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster - Gizmodo
- SDG 15. Millions of wildflowers to be planted to help boost UK’s bee population - Positive News
- SDG 15. Oceans are increasingly bearing the brunt of global warming - The Economist
- SDG 15. Rewild 25% of the UK for less climate change, more wildlife and a life lived closer to nature - The Conversation
- SDG 15. UK roadsides on verge of becoming wildlife corridors, say experts - The Guardian
- SDG 15. Why France's forests are growing bigger every year - Big Think
August 2019
- SDG 00. Exploring the knowledge base on KM and sustainability in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - RealKM
- SDG 00. From ‘why’ to ‘why not’: Sustainable investing as the new norma - McKinsey
- SDG 00. Refining sustainability reporting for investors - McKinsey
- SDG 02. Christiana Figueres' radical ideas for feeding the many sustainably - Raconteur
- SDG 02. From plantburgers to cutting food waste: how to feed the next billion - Raconteur
- SDG 07. “Coal is going to linger in Asia for many, many years yet”—a nasty regional habit - The Economist
- SDG 07. Decarbonisation of industrial sectors: The next frontier - McKinsey
- SDG 07. Global Energy Perspective 2019 - McKinsey
- SDG 07. How to bring solar power to the unelectrified world - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Peak energy, peak oil, and the rise of renewables: An executive’s guide to the global energy system - McKinsey
- SDG 07. The dirty side of renewable energy - Big Think
- SDG 13. Alaska's sea ice has completely melted away - Mashable
- SDG 13. Climate change is a women’s issue - UNWomen.org
- SDG 13. Climate change is giving life to the study of glacial archaeology - Quartz
- SDG 13. Climate change: how the jet stream is changing your weather - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Countries most exposed to climate change face higher costs of capital - The Economist
- SDG 13. Dispatch: climate breaking points at the Aspen Ideas Festival - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 13. Gloom from the climate-change front line - The Economist
- SDG 13. Greenland Heat Breaks Records, Causing Tons of Ice Melt - Time
- SDG 13. In climate terms, July 2019 could be the month that changed everything - Prospect Magazine
- SDG 13. July 2019 was the hottest month ever on Earth - Big Think
- SDG 13. Lost Cities and Climate Change - Scientific American Blog Network
- SDG 13. Why media in poor countries frame climate change differently - Big Think
- SDG 15. Deforestation in the Amazon may soon begin to feed on itself - The Economist
- SDG 15. Growing up—the rising promise of vertical farms - The Economist
- SDG 15. The Amazon is approaching an irreversible tipping point - The Economist
- SDg 15. This is what 10 years of reforestation can do - BBC Reel
- SDg 13. Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change | TED Talk
July 2019
- SDG 00. 6 Ways to Shift Business for Real, Positive Impact - Sustainable Brands
- SDG 00. Why sustainable supply chains are good for the environment and the bottom line - EY Consulting
- SDG 02. Micronutrient deficiencies affect two billion people worldwide - BBC
- SDG 02. More than one in five Venezuelans are undernourished - The Economist
- SDG 06. Thirsty Indian cities have a management problem, not a water problem - The Economist
- SDG 07. The story behind the world’s first large direct air capture plant - Quartz
- SDG 13. How the albedo effect speeds up global warming - Big Think
- SDG 13. 'No doubt left' about scientific consensus on global warming, say experts - The Guardian
- SDG 13. A strategic approach to climate action in cities--focused acceleration - McKinsey
- SDG 13. Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months - BBC News
- SDG 13. Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis – The Guardian
- SDG 13. Greenhouse-gas emissions are increasing the frequency of heatwaves - The Economist
- SDG 13. Heatwaves are killing people - The Economist
- SDG 13. The Arctic is ablaze - The Economist
- SDG 14. Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically and we don’t know why - New Scientist
- SDG 14. How AI and satellites are used to combat illegal fishing - Microsoft On The Issues
- SDG 14. Israel to ally with Arab neighbors around Red Sea in bid to save world's corals - The Times of Israel
- SDG 14. Our global food system discards 46 million tonnes of fish each year. Why? - Hakai Magazine
- SDG 15. A new plan for slowing climate change with trees - Big Think
- SDG 15. Adding 1 billion hectares of forest could help check global warming- Science
- SDG 15. Costa Rica has doubled its tropical rainforests in just a few decades. Here’s how - World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. New glacial lake discovered in Alps after record European heatwave hits - Big Think
- SDG 15. Planting trees possible solution to global warming, scientists suggest - The Brussels Times
- SDG14. Stabilising the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by surface mass deposition - Science Advances
June 2019
- SDG 00. Innovation Is the Only Way to Win the SDG Race - BCG
- SDG 00. Packaging sustainability must start in the supply chain
- SDG 00. Sustainability at a Tipping Point - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 00. Sustainable Futures - Shaping Tomorrow
- SDG 01. Bitcoin, blockchain and the fight against poverty - Financial Times
- SDG 02. Child Hunger in Africa - Box
- SDG 07 Can the world be less reliant on oil? - Barclays Investment Bank
- SDG 07. Decarbonising the grid: Stabilsing the future of renewables - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Decarbonising UK economy will cost £1 trillion, cannot be delayed - Reuters
- SDG 07. EU and Bill Gates launch €100m clean energy innovation fund - Climate Action
- SDG 07. Finland pledges to become carbon neutral by 2035 - The Guardian
- SDG 07. This credit card won’t let you buy anything else after you’ve hit your annual carbon limit - Eukalypton
- SDG 12. Actually, Consumers Do Buy Sustainable Products - Harvard Business Review
- SDG 12. Canada announces plan to ban single-use plastics by 2021 - National Geographic
- SDG 12. Fashion procurement needs to start thinking sustainable - Raconteur
- SDG 12. Plastic packaging is bad - but are the alternatives worse? - Quartz
- SDG 12. Reuse and recycle: five brands show how it's done - Raconteur
- SDG 12. When food packaging reflects a brand's sustainable ethos - Raconteur
- SDG 13. ‘Climate apartheid’: UN expert says human rights may not survive - The Guardian
- SDG 13. 'Reaching end game': New paper on climate change raises alarm - Al Jazeera
- SDG 13. Adapting to Climate Change Will Take More Than Just Seawalls and Levees - Scientific American Blog Network
- SDG 13. Climate risks could cost corporates $1trn, with biggest losses before 2025 - Edie
- SDG 13. EU 2050 climate target blocked by eastern nations - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Floods and storms are altering American attitudes to climate change - The Economist
- SDG 13. Global warming increases risk of armed conflict - The Brussels Times
- SDG 13. New executive-level forum launched to place climate change in the boardroom - Edie
- SDG 13. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning - Arxiv
- SDG 13. Theresa May confirms UK will adopt tough new climate targets - Financial Times
- SDG 14, Sci-fi set in space is posing a problem for our oceans — Quartz
- SDG 14. Secrets of the deep sea - World Ocean Initiative
- SDG 14. The Greenland ice sheet is melting unusually fast - The Economist
May 2019
- In 2019, the London Marathon partnered with UK startup Skipping Rocks Lab, creators of Ooho edible water pods, in a bid to reduce plastic waste. The organisers of the event handed out over 30,000 capsules to runners, who either consumed the entire pod or drank the water and threw away the biodegradable seaweed packaging. The collaboration was part of a pledge to make this year’s event the most sustainable marathon ever. In the intensifying global war on waste and eco-hazards, it will no longer be enough to just speak out against straws or reduce your plastic usage. Innovative new materials (like the edible seaweed used in Ooho’s pods and Loliware’s straws) and repurposed waste (see e.g. this Thai supermarket’s use of banana leaves) mean for TrendWatching that brands are transitioning from reducing their footprint to nearly eliminating it.
- SDG 00. How to fix Nature and avoid human misery: UN report - AFP.com
- SDG 00. Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life - The Guardian
- SDG 00. Sustainability at a tipping point | Sustainability | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 00. Working towards the SDGs through political and economic flux: Three recommendations for business - The Forum for the Future
- SDG 01. Jeffrey Sachs' Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa - Pacific Standard
- SDG 04 Education: the multiplier effect - Financial Times
- SDG 07. This is how big an impact air pollution can have on solar power - World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. Where do energy leaders predict their future is headed?- EY
- SDG 07. Why oil and gas companies are transforming business models to sell services into your home - FT
- SDG 12. The messy morals of eating Silicon Valley-backed veggie burgers - Quartz
- SDG 13. Climate action: step up, or be swept away - Business Reporter
- SDG 13. Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate - BBC News
- SDG 13. Climate Visuals
- SDG 13. Companies asked to come clean on climate lobbying - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Could Air-Conditioning Fix Climate Change? - Scientific American
- SDG 13. Fight against climate change and poverty will fail without overhaul of global financial system - UN News
- SDG 13. Global investors and UN launch guidance, metrics to help industry assess impacts from climate change - UN Environment
- SDG 13. What Changed My Mind About Climate Change? - The Bulwark
- SDG 14. Global warming is changing the colour of the oceans - World Economic Forum
- SDG 14. Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag - BBC News
- SDG 14. Millions of pieces of plastic waste found on remote island chain - Financial Times
- SDG 14. Ocean waves and winds are getting higher and stronger - Pursuit by The University of Melbourne
- SDG 14. Rise in global sea levels could have 'profound consequences' - BBC News
- SDG 14. The ocean is teeming with hundreds of thousands of viruses - Big Think
- SDG 14. Therapies for Some of the World’s Deadliest Diseases May Be at the Bottom of the Sea - Medium
- SDG 15. Arctic nations to meet amid tensions over environment, resources - Reuters
- SDG 15. Biodiversity Loss Is as Big a Crisis as Climate Change - Chatham House
- SDG 15. Clever science alone cannot prevent the next mass extinction - Financial Times
- SDG 15. Climate change: Global sea level rise could be bigger than expected - BBC News
- SDG 15. East Timor at the forefront of fixing the global recycling crisis - TSMT
- SDG 15. Honeybees are a hot commodity—and thieves are cashing in - Quartz
April 2019
- SDG 00. How AI can enable a sustainable future? - PwC
- SDG 00. Sustainability Blog - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 02 How AI can unlock a $127B opportunity by reducing food waste - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Britain breaks its record for the longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal - Positive News
- SDG 07. Decarbonization of industrial sectors: The next frontier - McKinsey
- SDG 07. Five questions energy companies need to ask themselves - EY
- SDG 07. How blockchain can help the utility industry develop clean power - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. How energy companies can tap into marketing personalisation - McKinsey
- SDG 07. More stunning falls in solar and battery storage costs put fossil fuels on notice - RenewEconomy
- SDG 07. The new rules of competition in energy storage - McKinsey
- SDG 07. The revenue outlook for offshore-wind projects - McKinsey
- SDG 07. The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet – Ramez Naam
- SDG 12. ALDI says all packaging will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025 - TreeHugger
- SDG 12. Ethical shopping is good for consumers and brands alike- Raconteur
- SDG 12. France is first country to ban all 5 pesticides linked to bee deaths -Inhabitat
- SDG 12. The best and worst replacements for the single-use plastic bag - Quartz
- SDg 12. The startups paving the way for a world without plastics - The Guardian
- SDG 12. The Vegan Outreach Blog: The Vegan Future Is Here
- SDG 13. Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, report says - BBC News
- SDG 13. Climate change poses challenge to long-term investors - Financial Times
- SDG 13. Climate change: Are you suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’? - BBC Three
- SDG 13. Climate change: Are you suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’? - BBC Three
- SDG 13. Climate Chaos Is Coming - The New York Times
- SDG 13. Climate-change adaptation for utilities - McKinsey
- SDG 13. Investing pensions to fight climate change - Raconteur
- SDG 13. The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns - The Nation
- SDG 13. The young minds solving climate change - BBC
- SDG 13. These millennials are going on “birth strike” due to climate change - Quartz
- SDG 13. Three steps to future-proofing infrastructure assets from climate change - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 13. Top global asset managers call for climate action - Futures Centre
- SDG 13. Trillion-dollar investor says hitting climate goals will cost less “than we had feared” - Quartz
- SDG 14. Ocean plastic is just the beginning for the future - Raconteurf packaging
- SDG 14. Scientists explore the ocean’s eerie twilight zone - Quartz
- SDG 14. Seychelles president makes underwater speech calling for protection for oceans - BBC News
March 2019
- SDG 00. Sustainable businesses should be ‘long-term greedy’ - Financial Times
- SDG 02 Why we need to talk about a healthier way of feeding the world - Financial Times
- SDG 02. Accelerators speed development of promising food start-ups - Financial Times
- SDG 02. Market for alternative proteins to reach $5.2 billion by 2020 - SN
- SDG 02. Organic farming’s growth only part of answer to food sustainability - Financial Times
- SDG 05. The facts about gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals - YouTube
- SDG 07. A Future Without Fossil Fuels? - The New York Review of Books
- SDG 07. A World Built on Sand and Oil - Lapham’s Quarterly
- SDG 07. Climeon could make geothermal as widely accessible as wind and solar - Quartz
- SDG 07. Energy storage: why it could make or break your business - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Energy-as-a-service: the revolutionary new business model - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Global Energy Perspective 2019 - McKinsey
- SDG 07. The Mad Science Plan to Power the World With Poop - Earther
- SDG 12. The last straw: European parliament votes to ban single-use plastics - The Guardian
- SDG 12. The scale of the plastic waste issue is getting worse not better - Shaping Tomorrow
- SDG 12. We have to fix fashion if we want to survive climate change - Fast Company
- SDG 13. A Greenland glacier is growing. That's not good news - National Geographic
- SDG 13. The climate strikers should inspire us all to act at the next UN summit | António Guterres - The Guardian
- SDG 13. Thomas L. Friedman: The three climate changes - McKinsey
- SDG 13. What are the school climate strikes? - The Economist
- SDG 14. Drone 'shark' that eats plastic goes live in UK waters - Sky News
- SDG 14. Nearly 90% of fish stocks are in the red – fisheries subsidies must stop - World Economic Forum
- SDG 14. Turn the tide on plastic - CLea Seas
February 2019
- SDG 00. In search of impact - Measuring the full value of capital: Update: The Cambridge Impact Framework - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
- SDG 00. The Future of Sustainability 2019 • Forum for the Future
- SDG 00. These 9 technological innovations will shape the sustainability agenda in 2019 | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Data-driven energy is the future, so how do we get there? - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Energy efficiency of the future in 5 remarkable innovations
- SDG 07. Wave energy: the most reliable renewable energy source? - Raconteur
- SDG 11. Future cities have to get even smarter - Raconteur
- SDG 11. The road to seamless mobility - McKinsey
- SDG 11. The road to seamless mobility - McKinsey
- SDG 12 - The rise of nude shopping - BrightVibes
- SDG 12. Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth | Cities | The Guardian
- SDG 12. Decarbonising industry will take time and money--but here’s how to get a head start - McKinsey
- SDG 12. Sustainable packaging taking centre stage in food sector - Raconteur
- SDG 12. The environmental cost of free returns - Fast Company
- SDG 12. The environmental cost of our plastic addiction - The Futures Centre
- SDG 13. A bold new plan to tackle climate change ignores economic orthodoxy -The Economist
- SDG 13. Business and the effects of global warming - After the deluge - The Economist
- SDG 13. Climate change concerns: what pension funds can do to help - Raconteur
- SDG 13. Climate change is a threat multiplier - Big Think
- SDG 13. Climate strike: Schoolchildren protest over climate change - BBC News
- SDG 13. Could a new superplant solve the climate crisis? - FT
- SDG 13. Integrating asset management and sustainability - Raconteur
- SDG 13. You Can’t Save the Climate by Shrinking Your Carbon Footprint - Intelligencer
- SDG 14. Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge | National Geographic Society
- SDG 15. A sixth mass extinction - Forum for the Future
- SDG 15. Plastic waste reduction at top of the global agenda - Raconteur
January 2019
- SDG 00. Sustainable Development Impact Summit | World Economic Forum
- SDG 00. Territorial planning to achieve the SDGs - Localizing the SDGs
- SDG 07. Financing sustainable energy brings electricity to developing economies - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Taming the Sun Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet - getabstract
- SDG 09. New light on photosynthesis raises hopes of new green revolution - FT
- SDG 11. How Smart Cities Will Vacuum Up Data — And Attempt To Protect It - CB Insights Research
- SDG 11. Robot cities: three urban prototypes for future living - The Conversation
- SDG 11. The rise of the urban cable car - BBC
- SDG 12. 10 New Year's Resolutions To Help The Planet In 2019- HuffPost UK
- SDG 12. Food waste will be next year's moral crisis, just as single-use plastic was this year - City A.M.
- SDG 13. Africa’s fastest-growing cities are the most vulnerable to climate change globally - World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Bonds and Climate Change: The State of the Market 2018 | Climate Bonds Initiative
- SDG 13. How I stave off despair as a climate scientist - Nature
- SDG 13. Investors should fire directors who fail to act on climate change - FT
- SDG 13. Nations agree on Paris Agreement rulebook, fail on climate ambition
- SDG 13. The World Economic Forum says climate change is the world's greatest threat - Quartz
- SDG 14. Ocean Day 2019 - WEF
- SDG 14. Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds - The New York Times
- SDG 14. Our oceans broke heat records in 2018 and the consequences are catastrophic - The Guardian
- SDG 15. A network of decentralised landscape regeneration practitioners - Futures Centre
- SDG 15. Biohacking meets conservation with ancient Redwood cloning - Futures Centre
- SDG 15. Japan is set to be the new main source of rare earths - Big Think
December 2018
- 90.5% of plastic is not recycled. This statistic was so resonant that it was named the ’Statistic of 2018’ by The Royal Statistical Society in the UK.
- Human extinction could be good for the world. We’re destroying much of the inhabitable Earth and causing unimaginable suffering to many animals that inhabit it, argued Quartz.
- The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”
- SDG 06. Even by the standards of poor countries, India is alarmingly filthy - The Economist
- SDG 07. Funds planned for rural electricity in Africa should be better spent on water delivery - Quartz SDG 07. Smoke clouds obscure India’s solar revolution - FT
- SDG 07. Spain unveils ambitious green energy plan - FT
- SDG 12. This perfume lets you smell like trash - TrendWatching
- SDG 12. US demand for Chinese furniture linked to deforestation in Africa - Eco-Business
- SDG 13. Denmark discusses labelling food for climate impact - CNN
- SDG 13. How to sell climate change and save the planet - FT S
- SDG 13. Just 5% of UK pension funds possess a climate change policy - edie.net
- SDG 13. Navigating_climate_scenario_analysis_-_a_guide_for_institutional_investors - IIGCC
- SDG 13. Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe - The Guardian
- SDG 14 HP and IKEA join open-source plastic initiative - TrendWatching
- SDG 14. Ideas that drive impactful change on behalf of our ocean - Lonely Whale
- SDG 14. Indonesia: dead whale had 1,000 pieces of plastic in stomach - The Guardian
- SDG 14. Now you sea me: meet the ocean’s endangered animals - 1843
- SDG 14. People don’t trust the government on climate change. So what now? - Prospect Magazine
- SDG 14. Scientist's accidental discovery makes coral grow 40x faster - Big Think
November 2018
- Zerobnb is an alternative accommodation listings directory which only features sustainable properties. Neste, a Finland-based producer of renewable diesel, created the zero-impact Nolle cabin in July 2018 to promote its vision of a zero-emissions future. Guests could book to stay on the hut via Airbnb. Now, to further promote its vision, the company has created Zerobnb to list other sustainable properties which can be found on Airbnb.
- SDG 00. From Growth to Sustainable Prosperity - Chatham House
- SDG 07. Microgrids are bringing power to the billion left without electricity - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Oil rich nations invest in infrastructure for low-carbon future - Raconteur
- SDG 07. Scientists develop liquid solar fuel, a clean energy breakthrough - Big Think
- SDG 11. Deadly political calculations: Why India isn't fixing its toxic smog problem | Reuters
- SDG 11. Future cities have to get even smarter - Raconteur
- SDG 11. Infrastructure gets digitally transformed for tomorrow's cities- Raconteur
- SDG 11. Why we need smart city standards - EY SDG 12 The 10 Smartest Sustainable Products of 2018 - Time
- SDG 12. Plastic is less than fantastic - FT
- SDG 12. Ten simple changes to help save the planet - BBC
- SDG 12. The mindful consumer: don't let our shopping cost the Earth - Raconteur
- SDG 12. Why the world’s recycling system stopped working - FT
- SDG 13. Distributional effects of climate policies - thewonk.eu
- SDG 13. Financing climate futures - OECD
- SDG 13. Forum for the Future | Blog | When 2°C is too much
- SDG 13. World's pension funds vulnerable to climate risks, study reveals -Edie
- SDG 14. HP and IKEA had joined NextWave Plastics, a coalition working together to reduce ocean-bound plastics - TrendWatching
- SDG 14. Instant Ocean - Hakai Magazine
- SDG 14. Mining the deep ocean will soon begin - The Economist
- SDG 14. Tides of Change - Raconteur
- SDG 14. Whisky brand restores the reefs next door - TrendWatching
- SDG 14. World's top fishing nations to be given millions to protect oceans | Environment - The Guardian
October 2018
- SDG 00. 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world - TED Talk
- SDG 00. BCG says societal impact programs grow business - Business Insider
- SDG 00. Localising the SDGs
- SDG 00. Navigating the SDGs: a business guide to engaging with the UN Global Goals - PwC
- SDG 00. Stakeholder theory: helping business do good and do well
- SDG 02. IoT solutions can offer data-driven insights and play a role in eliminating world hunger - Raconteur
- SDG 03. Airs and disgraces: how city pollution is killing residents - FT
- SDG 07. Fossil fuel divestment movement grows by 120 times in four years - Futures Centre
- SDG 07. Researchers in Singapore develop energy efficient air-conditioning - Futures Centre
- SDG 07. Restorative business revolutionising carbon use and reputation
- SDG 11. Data is in the driving seat for future city transport systems - Raconteur
- SDG 11. When cities are experiencing acute housing shortages, could a solution be found in the ruralisation of work? - RSA
- SDG 12. What the world thinks about waste - Raconteur
- SDG 12. Why the world’s recycling system stopped working - FT
- SDG 13. Fresh warnings over lack of climate action across finance sector
- SDG 13. Hitting 1.5°C: The Stark Climate Choices for Governments - Chatham House
- SDG 13. Hitting 1.5°C: The Stark Climate Choices for Governments - Chatham House
- SDG 13. How A Regenerative Revolution Could Reverse Climate Change - Forbes SDG 13. New U.N. Report Warns of Looming Climate Change Crisis - Time
- DG 13. Review finds that 70% of banks recognise that climate change poses financial risks | Bank of England
- SDG 13. The best way to reduce your personal carbon emissions: don't be rich - Vox
- SDG 13. The Economic Case for Combating Climate Change
- SDG 13. UN Says Climate Genocide Coming. But It’s Worse Than That.
- SDG 45. Climate change: Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated' - BBC News
- SDG 14. Plastics: Why we must act now - WWF
- SDG 14. Why marine animals can't stop eating plastic - BBC Earth S
- SDG 15. Eight bird species are the first confirmed avian extinctions of the century - Futures Centre
- SDG 15. New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers - MIT Technology Review
- DG 15. Pakistan has planted over a billion trees | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. What the world thinks about waste - Raconteur
September 2018
- 25th September 2018 marked the third anniversary of the adoption of the SDGs. To mark this occasion, the Global Day of Action (#Act4SDGs) brought together individuals in every corner of the world to take action.
- Key events during #GlobalGoals week 2018:
- Social Good Summit: https://mashable.com/sgs-livestream/
- Global Compact Summit: https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/events/leaders_summit_2018/learn-more …
- Sustainable Development Impact Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-summit/sessions/how-education-can-heal-a-broken-generation …
- Conference on Sustainable development: http://ic-sd.org/events/icsd-2018/ …
- SDG 00. Civil society’s role in sustainable development cannot be overstated - Synergos
- SDG 00. Cryptocurrencies & Blockchains – A New Boost For SDG-Financing?
- SDG 00. Global green finance levels insufficient to underpin SDGs - Edie.net
- SDG 00. Introducing our new and improved 'Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Tracker' - Our World in Data
- SDG 02. World hunger is on the rise - Quartz
- SDG 07. California clean energy bill is now law - CBS News
- SDG 07. Energy in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities - thewonk.eu
- SDG 12. Where does your phone come from? - The Economist
- SDG 13. 8 simple rules for grappling with climate risk - Forum for the Future
- SDG 13. China’s climate change battle - Inkstone
- SDG 13. Climate change will force sports to rethink how they're played — Quartz
- SDG 13. Finance firms 'slowest' signatories to report climate impacts - Edie.net
- SDG 13. Global Climate Action Summit 2018 | The Global Climate Action Summit 2018 information place
- SDG 13. Hurricane Florence: why scientists expect climate change to give us rainier storms - Vox
- SDG 13. Is the ‘Heat Day’ the New Snow Day? - The New York Times
- SDG 13. Ominous 'hunger stones' reveal dire warnings in Europe - Big Think
- SDG 13. Pension funds warned of legal action over climate risk - Energy Live News
- SDG 13. The Masses Are Mobilising for Climate Leadership - Project Syndicate
- SDG 13. Women are driving climate solutions today and tomorrow - LinkedIn
- SDG 14. Dead zones in our oceans have increased dramatically since 1950, and we’re to blame | World Economic Forum
- SDG 14. Killer whales: PCB pollution could wipe out half of orca populations - CNN
- SDG 14. Saving Coral - BBC Earth
- SDG 14. The Ocean Cleanup sets sail to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- SDG 15. A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn't Recycled - National Geographic
- SDG 15. How to use seawater to grow food – in the desert - BBC
- SDG 15. Kenya’s $19,000 plastic bag penalty - Trend Watching
August 2018
- SDG 00. Guide Facilitates Businesses’ Integration of SDGs into Corporate Reporting | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Sustainable futures - Monash Lens
- SDG 00. The Worlds Largest Lesson
- SDG 00. Update - 10 August 2018 - IISD's IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub
- SDG 03. Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian
- SDG 06. The future of water infrastructure goes beyond dams and reservoirs - Quartz
- SDG 06. World Has Come a Long Way from Cesspits to Sanitation - HumanProgress
- SDG 07. ‘Peak coal’ is getting closer, latest figures show | Carbon Brief
- SDG 07. Swiss startup Energy Vault is stacking concrete blocks to store energy — Quartz
- SDG 12. By 2030 we could throw away more than 2 billion tonnes of food | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. “Climate change isn’t gender-neutral”: Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins on their positive, feminist vision for climate justice | Prospect Magazine
- SDG 13. 288 investors with more than $26 trillion in assets call on world governments to scale up climate action to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement - IGCC
- SDG 13. Extreme global weather is 'the face of climate change' says leading scientist | Environment | The Guardian
- SDG 13. Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C | Cities | The Guardian
- SDG 13. Reducing food waste: 'One of the most important things we can do to reverse global warming' | TreeHugger
- SDG 13. The global heatwave, as seen from above | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Uncovering the mental health crisis of climate change — Quartz
- SDG 13. Will Climate Change Remake Human Biology? – Future Human – Medium
- SDG 14. 640,000 Metric Tons of Ghost Gear Enters Oceans Each Year
- SDG 14. AI identifies heat-resistant coral reefs in Indonesia - Coral Triangle could be key tconserving the world’s reefs as Indonesia corals survive worst coral bleaching event in history. : Futurology
- SDG 14. Almost all world’s oceans damaged by human impact, study finds | Environment | TheGuardian
- SDG 14. Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching on the rise - The University of Edinburgh
- SDG 14. Want to really clean up the ocean? It will take more than a ban on plastic straws | Prospect Magazine
- SDG 15. No, We Are Not Running Out of Forests - HumanProgress
July 2018
- SDG 00. Enabling the Global Goals: How Digital Solutions Can Help Achieve the SDGs - IISD
- SDG 00. The corporate sustainability Twitterati 2018 - GreenBiz
- SDG 00. Transforming Business for a Sustainable Economy - Bain & Company
- SDG 00. Ways to Leverage SDG Synergies to Efficiently Finance Implementation |- IISD
- SDG 01. Why Won't the UN Say What Really Reduces Poverty? - HumanProgress
- SDG 07 .Ireland Moves to Divest From Fossil Fuels - The New York Times
- SDG 07. A framework for fostering effective energy transitions - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Decarbonisation of industrial sectors: The next frontier - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Ireland to become first country to divest from fossil fuels - FT
- SDG 07. New Energy Outlook Forecasts Cheaper Renewables and Batteries, Shrinking Role of Fossil Fuels - IISD
- SDG 07. Pathways and obstacles to a low-carbon economy - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Sweden Is On Track To Reach Its Green Energy Goals A Decade Early – Green Matters
- SDG 07. Winds of change? Why offshore wind might be the next big thing - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 12. The first 'plastic-free' supermarket aisle - BBC News
- SDG 13. At Wimbledon, Roger Federer wears Uniqlo's climate-controlling clothes — Quartzy
- SDG 13. Global warming varies greatly depending where you live | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Guys, Our Planet Is on Fire. Here Are The All-Time Heat Records Set Worldwide This Week - Science Alert
- SDG 13. How to talk about climate change: 5 tips from the front lines - World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Major investors urge G7 to step up climate action - BusinessGreen
- SDG 13. Rising sea levels will soon destroy underground US internet cables, scientists warn | The Independent
- SDG 13. Top pension funds and insurers failing to engage with climate risks - Edie
- SDG 14, How Fisheries Could Be Sustainable and Profitable - HumanProgress
- SDG 14. Life on the ocean waves or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - FT
- SDG 14. Ocean plastic is just the beginning for the future of packaging - Raconteur
- SDG 14. Rising Seas Could Cause Problems For Internet Infrastructure : NPR
- SDG 15. A chemical breakthrough could eat the plastic pollution crisis - WIRED UK
- SDG 15. India will abolish all single-use plastic by 2022, vows Narendra Modi - World Economic Forum
June 2018
- SDG 00. Features of Effective SDG Co-ordination Mechanisms: Emerging Good Practices | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. How the UN SDGs help marketers build trust | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. SDG Leadership Series: Accelerating Progress Through Online Collaboration Forums - GlobeScan
- SDG 01. Does growing up poor harm brain development? - The Economist
- SDG 03. Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accurate - MIT Technology Review
- SDG 04. Asymmetry: education will cause disparities to grow - PwC
- SDG 05. We are seeing rising levels of female career ambition - PwC's The Gender Agenda
- SDG 05.: Gender Equality and an Agreement on Principle 10 | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 07. Bringing (solar) power to the people - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. How solar energy can (finally) create value - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. How the Cost of Light Fell by a Factor of 500,000 - HumanProgress
- SDG 07. The disruptive potential of solar power - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 11. Booming cities' unintended consequences: Homelessness and congestion | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 13. Climate Bailout: A financial tool to save the climate - Impakter
- SDG 13. Motor industry should be ‘ashamed’ over emissions - FT
- SDG 14. Great Barrier Reef's five near-death experiences revealed in new paper
- SDG 14. High Seas, What’s at Stake? - IISD
- SDG 14. Solving our Plastics Problem: Is this the perfect storm?
- SDG 14. The Blue Economy: Harnessing the Ocean’s Resources for Sustainable Development | Chatham House
- SDG 14. The Blue Economy: Harnessing the Ocean’s Resources for Sustainable Development | Chatham House
- SDG 14. The newest green-tech idea: drown data centers at sea - Quartz
- SDG 15. How much of the world’s land would we need in order to feed the global population with the average diet of a given country? - Our World in Data
- SDG 15. Our plastic pollution crisis is too big for recycling to fix - The Guardian
- SDG 15. Scientists shocked by mysterious deaths of ancient trees - BBC News
- SDG 15. The Next Trend In Travel Is… Don’t. – BRIGHT Magazine
- SDG 15. These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day | World Economic Forum
May 2018
- SDG 00. Empowering businesses to engage with sustainable finance and the SDGs - thewonk.eu
- SDG 00. Implementation of Paris Agreement, SDGs Can Create 24 Million Jobs by 2030 - IISD
- SDG 00. Ireland SDG Implementation Plan Emphasizes Coherence, Public Engagement | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Sector associations have potential to raise sustainability impact through increased collaboration | CSR Europe
- SDG 01. Why do far fewer people die in famines today? - Our World in Data
- SDG 02. What will we eat in 2050? - World Economic Forum
- SDG 05. Big Investors Push Harder for More Women Directors - Bloomberg
- SDG 05. Equality by 2030: The Press for Progress | Chatham House
- SDG 07. Apple is now completely powered with renewable energy, company announces after green push - The Independent
- SDG 07. At this rate, it’s going to take nearly 400 years to transform the energy system - MIT Technology Review
- SDG 07. Bitcoin's energy consumption is as much a year as all of Ireland, says the first peer-reviewed study on the subject — Quartz
- SDG 07. Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels and become world's first decarbonised society | The Independent
- SDG 07. Energy experts warn that world is not on track to meet 2030 energy targets - United Nations Sustainable Development
- SDG 07. Manufacturing Goes Carbon Negative - strategy+business
- SDG 07. Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers • The Register
- SDG 07. The Future of Cooling Opportunities for energy-efficient air conditioning - IEA
- SDG 12. Making Electricity Consumes a Lot of Water. What's the Best Way to Fix That? - Scientific American Blog Network
- SDG 13. AXA ranked top insurer for climate change leadership | The Actuary, the official magazine of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
- SDG 13. Corporate social responsibility reports show oil companies becoming passive about climate change, say linguists — Quartz
- SDG 14. Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
- SDG 14. Should nations close the high seas to fishing? — Quartz
- SDG 15. EU proposes bloc-wide ban on single-use plastics
- SDG 15. How Worms Can Help Recycle Plastic- Fortune
- SDG 15. No, We Are Not Running Out of Forests - HumanProgress
- SDG 15. The fight to own Antarctica - FT
- SDG 15. What Happens to the Plastic We Throw Out- National Geographic
April 2018
- SDG 00. Al Gore: sustainability is history’s biggest investment opportunity
- SDG 00. Empowering businesses to engage with sustainable finance and the SDGs
- SDG 00. Generation 2030: GIS for a Sustainable World: Bringing the Power of Maps to the SDGs | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Policy Brief: SDG Knowledge Weekly: Adaptation, Agriculture and Food | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Why leading businesses are supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, and why yours should too. | LinkedIn
- SDG 01. Does population growth lead to hunger and famine? - Our World in Data
- SDG 04. Building Skills Outside the Classroom With New Ways of Learning - The New York Times
- SDG 05. Gender gap in science and technology could last for centuries
- SDG 05. How promoting women will close the gender pay gap - Raconteur
- SDG 05. Should We Really Care About Inequality? by Jason Furman - Project Syndicate
- SDG 07. Google, Amazon push power companies to solar and wind, a blow to coal
- SDG 07. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bans new offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand - NZ Herald
- SDG 07. The 'new' battery that may be vital for a zero carbon future - BBC
- SDG 07. This Planned Solar Farm in Saudi Arabia Would Be 100 Times Bigger Than Any in the World
- SDG 09. Ready to “up-green” your business? – getAbstract Life!
- SDG 13. Animation: How temperature has changed in each country since 1900 - YouTube
- SDG 13. Fiji PM: Climate change threatens our survival - BBC News
- SDG 13. Here’s how fast a glacier can slip into the sea once it’s destabilized — Quartz
- SDG 13. Is your company resilient enough to climate change? | LinkedIn
- SDG 14. The Ocean Cleanup
- SDG 14. The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail
- SDG 15. I kept all my plastic for a year – the 4,490 items forced me to rethink | Environment | The Guardian
- SDG 15. Plastic fantastic: should brands rethink their response to the packaging witch hunt? | The Drum
- SDG 15. Russians protest garbage dumps blighting Moscow region - ABC News
- SDG 15. This Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Save The Planet From Pollution
- SDG 15. This shocking chart shows the true impact of plastic on our planet | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. Tourism pressures: Five places tackling too many visitors - BBC News
- SDG 15. We’re losing the world’s forests, but there’s a way we can fight back | World Economic Forum
March 2018
- SDG 00. A simple process for prioritizing the SDGs at the organizational level | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. Advancing National SDG Implementation: Assessing VNR Reports to Learn from SDG Experiences | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Getting to 2030: Tracking SDG Indicators for Evidence of Implementation Progress | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Measuring Investors' Contributions To The Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 00. SDG update 30 March 2018
- SDG 01. Why is it so hard to reach the EU’s poverty target?
- SDG 01. Will the Sustainable Development Goals be fulfilled? Assessing present and future global poverty | Palgrave Communications
- SDG 01. World Poverty Clock
- SDG 04. Melinda Gates op-ed: When money flows into the hands of women, everything changes — Quartz
- SDG 05. Gender diversity in corporate senior management: glass ceiling yet to be cracked - Vigeo Eiris
- SDG 05. Women make up half the planet, but many of them have no voice.
- SDG 05.: Gender Equality and an Agreement on Principle 10 | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 06. 12 world leaders issue call for accelerated water action - EnviroNews Nigeria
- SDG 06. Anxiety drugs are getting into the water we drink. This is how we could stop them | World Economic Forum
- SDG 06. Journals Focus on Water for Sustainable Development | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 06. Making #EveryDropCount: SDG 6 on the 2018 Agenda | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 06. Making every drop count: an agenda for water action - UN
- SDG 06. New partnership to explore sustainable water and energy solutions | UN DESA | United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- SDG 06. UN: water scarcity can’t be solved with man-made infrastructure alone — Quartz
- SDG 06. World Water Day highlights a global issue that everyone can help tackle
- SDG 07. Non-tradable resources and the global electricity transition - Chatham House
- SDG 13. £555bn pension funds questioned over climate risk 'misunderstandings'
- SDG 13. 15,000 Scientists Issue a “Warning to Humanity” | Big Think
- SDG 13. Climate policies place $1.6trn fossil fuel costs at risk, report warns
- SDG 13. Could this be the best way to tackle climate change? | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters- Bjorn Lomborg
- SDG 13. New research shows clear gap between companies' awareness of climate risks and actions for tackling them | Climate Disclosure Standards Board
- SDG 13. Shell outlines scenario for what it would take to halt climate change - Chicago Tribune
- SDG 13. The Arctic is sending us a powerful message about climate change. It’s time for us to listen | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. The swiftness of glaciers: language in a time of climate change | Aeon Ideas
- SDG 14. 'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought | Environment | The Guardian
- SDG 14. Blue Planet or Plastic Planet? - Human Works - Empowering the game changers of tomorrow
- SDG 14. Dead zones in our oceans have increased dramatically since 1950, and we’re to blame | World Economic Forum
- SDG 14. Microplastic pollution in oceans is far worse than feared, say scientists | Environment | The Guardian
- SDG 14. The UN SDGs are proud to introduce… blue finance | Euromoney
- SDG 14. Unhidden depths: the seabed - The Economist
- SDG 15. 'Catastrophe' as France's bird population collapses due to pesticides | World news | The Guardian
- SDG 15. The plastics crisis is more urgent than you know. Recycling bottles won’t fix it | John Vidal | Opinion | The Guardian
- SDG 15. These flood-proof towers could withstand rising sea levels in New York | World Economic Forum
- SDG 16. Peace, justice and strong institution | Sustainable Development Goals | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
February 2018
- SDG 00. Events Calendar | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Introducing the Our World in Data 'Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Tracker' - Our World in Data
- SDG 00. Is business in tune with government and citizens on SDGs? | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 00. Measuring up - how the UK is performing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 00. More than philanthropy: SDGs are a $12 trillion opportunity for the private sector | UNDP
- SDG 00. OECD releases "Making Blended Finance work for the Sustainable Development Goals". | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. Why mobilizing private capital towards the SDGs is good for business | GreenBiz
- SDG 06. China’s acute water shortage imperils economic future - FT
- SDG 07. Renewables will be cheaper than fossil fuels by 2020, research says | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Climate change will force some mammalian species to evolve away from their white winter coats — Quartz
- SDG 13. Europe: all 571 cities are destined for worse heat waves, droughts, or floods — Quartz
- SDG 13. The scientific reason Europe is incredibly cold and snowy this week | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Vanguard, Blackrock, and ExxonMobil worry about climate change - Business Insider
- SDG 13. Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration - Rolling Stone
- SDG 13. Why the Two-Degree Climate Change Target Is a Delusion | Foreign Affairs
- SDG 14. Plastic pollution has reached the 'pristine' Arctic - BBC News
- SDG 15. Urban farmers struggle to reap mass-market benefits
January 2018
- Just one in 45 Indians owns a car or truck, only 3% have ever been on an aeroplane, and 80% say inequality is a big problem. India has boosted those earning below $2 a day to $3, but it hasn't helped those at the bottom of the ladder climb much higher (source Signal, Eurasia Group, January 2018).
- SDG 00. 2018 ESG Trends to Watch - MSCI
- SDG 00. 5 green finance trends to follow in 2018 | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. 5 Sustainable Business Predictions for 2018
- SDG 00. 8 business and sustainability trends that will define 2018 — Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
- SDG 00. FreeBasics
- SDG 00. Generation 2030: Generation 2030: Have Your Say | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. IISD's IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub
- SDG 00. National Platforms for SDG Reporting: Identifying Best Practices and Solutions | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. SDG prioritisation - is business on the right track? | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. Sustainability Trends in 2018 - what questions you should ask? | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. TEACH SDGs
- SDG 00. The 12 themes set to shape 2018 :: Environmental Finance
- SDG 00. The Most Read Stories on the SDG Knowledge Hub in 2017 | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. The Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2017
- SDG 00. UNDP Showcases 'State of Sustainable Development' Around the World | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Upcoming trends for business and environment in 2018 - WWF UK Blog
- SDG 02. In 10 years, the world may not be able to feed itself | World Economic Forum
- SDG 06. UAE has built the world's largest water reserve in Liwa desert — Quartz
- SDG 07. Energy 2050: Insights from the ground up | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 07. Solar's Bright Future Is Further Away Than It Seems - Bloomberg
- SDG 09. Starting at the source: Sustainability in supply chains | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 11. Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable - UN
- SDG 13. Black snow troubles pollution-weary Kazakhs in Temirtau - BBC News
- SDG 13. Climate Change: NASA ranks 2017 the second-hottest year on Earth despite no El Niño — Quartz
- SDG 13. It’s official: 2017 was one of the hottest years on record - The Verge
- SDG 13. Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again | Grist
- SDG 13. Taking firm steps on climate change to shape a more resilient tomorrow | Articles | Zurich Insurance
- SDG 13. The growing adoption of LEDs is having a tangible effect on carbon emissions — Quartz
- SDG 14. Solving the ocean plastics blight - a systems approach - The Forum for the Future blog
- SDG 15. China is creating new forests the size of Ireland | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. This app is turning cleaning the planet into a game | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. This company wants to build a giant indoor farm next to every major city in the world | World Economic Forum
December 2017
- SDG 00. GSDR Experts Discuss Paths to SDG Achievement | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. SDG Reporting Challenge: PwC
- SDG 00. Starting at the source: Sustainability in supply chains | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 00. Sustainability’s deepening imprint | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 13. Climate change cannot be mitigated without carbon capture — Quartz
- SDG 13. Climate disclosure takes a giant step forward - FT
- SDG 14. China’s cable strategy: exploring global undersea dominance
- SDG 14. Our oceans are in crisis – here are 5 things we can do to save them | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. In 10 years, the world may not be able to feed itself | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. Just 20 percent of e-waste is being recycled | Ars Technica
November 2017
- SDG 00. Five compelling reasons why investors should engage with the SDGs: PRI
- SDG 00. Knowledge Weekly – 27 November 2017 | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. The Paradise Papers data leak is about growing inequality — Quartz
- SDG 00. The SDG Compass | UN Global Compact
- SDG 00. The SDGs turn 2: The journey so far | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
- SDG 02. From plantburgers to cutting food waste: how to feed the next billion - Raconteur
- SDG 03. Why aren't we curing the world's most curable diseases?
- SDG 03. Why protecting mosquitoes could be the key to tackling malaria | World Economic Forum
- SDG 05. Believe in gender equality? Now you can invest in it - Nov. 3, 2017
- SDg 05. Five Fifty: The front lines of gender inequality | McKinsey & Company
- SDG 06. Taking steps to cut global water consumption - Raconteur
- SDG 07. 100 per cent renewable electricity in reach by 2050 | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
- SDG 07. Can sustainable energy drive sustainable growth? - EY
- SDG 07. IEA Predicts Rise of Cheap Renewables and China’s Move away from Coal - Resilience
- SDG 07. This could be the world's largest source of energy by 2025 | World Economic Forum
- SDG 12. Responsible Consumption and Production | United Nations Enable
- SDG 13. 19th National Congress Reaffirms China's Commitment to Climate Action, Sustainable Development | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 13. A sharp reality check on the climate challenge - FT
- SDG 13. A strategic approach to climate action in cities--focused acceleration - McKinsey & Company
- SDG 13. China’s climate awakening - The Economist
- SDG 13. First CO2 rise in four years puts pressure on Paris targets - BBC News
- SDG 13. For $500 Billion, Scientists Think They Can "Refreeze" the Arctic
- SDG 13. Syria Joins Paris Climate Accord, Leaving Only U.S. Opposed - The New York Times
- SDG 13. Taking the SDGs to the next level for business - Sustainability and climate change - PwC
- SDG 13. The seven megatrends that could beat global warming: 'There is reason for hope' | Environment | The Guardian
- SDG 13. The three-degree world: cities that will be drowned by global warming - The Guardian
- SDG 13. This is the what the world will look like if we can curb global warming - World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. This map shows how many years could be added to you life - if the air you breathe was less polluted | World Economic Forum
- SDG13. Transforming the Climate Change Conversation With Paul Hawken | HuffPost
- SDG 14. Our actions are threatening every single creature in the sea - World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. The world's largest reforestation effort in history is underway | World Economic Forum
- SDG 17. Perspectives: Why The Future Is Bright For Renewables And Fossil Fuels - KPMG
October 2017
- SDG 00. How do you fund a sustainable world? | EY Financial Services Insights
- SDG 00. How to SDG: a beginner's guide - LinkedIn
- SDG 00. Politics in the Way of Progress by J. Bradford DeLong - Project Syndicate
- SDG 00. Why should investors engage with the SDGs? | LinkedIn
- SDG 01. Educating girls: the key to tackling global poverty | Opportunity International roundtables | The Guardian
- SDG 01. Ethiopia built an army to tackle maternal mortality. This is how they did it. — Quartz
- SDG 01. How to Make the World’s Poor $500 Billion Richer | LinkedIn
- SDG 01. In the quest to end poverty we need to make sure nobody is left behind. | World Economic Forum
- SDG 01. The Low Cost of Ending Poverty by Bjørn Lomborg - Project Syndicate
- SDG 04. Educating girls: the key to tackling global poverty | Opportunity International roundtables | The Guardian
- SDG 05. Educating girls: the key to tackling global poverty | Opportunity International roundtables | The Guardian
- SDG 05. Gender equality? It starts with data | World Economic Forum
- SDG 05. Gender Lens Investing: Why the Opportunities Are Growing - Knowledge@Wharton
- SDG 05. Proven Measures and Hidden Gems for Improving Gender Diversity - BCG
- SDG 05. Working women: What determines female labor force participation? - Our World in Data
- SDG 06. Future of Water 2017 - Raconteur
- SDG 06. Water shortage is the number-one world risk - Raconteur
- SDG 07. How blockchain can make the world more energy efficient | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. How do you connect the disconnected? - EY
- SDG 07. Oxford, UK to create first zero-emissions zone in the world - Inhabitat
- SDG 13. 7 Ways the 4IR Can De-stress the Planet | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. Carbon taxes: the Robin Hood approach to climate change - EY
- SDG 13. Climate Change Mitigation Opportunities Index 2017 - EIU
- SDG 13. Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016 - BBC News
- SDG 13. Scorching "Lucifer" heatwaves will become normal by the 2050s | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. The most educated are divided when it comes to climate change. This is why | World Economic Forum
- SDG 13. The world’s first “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland—turning carbon dioxide into stone — Quartz
- SDG 13. Tropical forests caused the highest CO2 levels in 2,000 years, says NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory — Quartz
- SDG 14. Fourth Our Ocean Conference Generates Over €7 Billion in Pledges | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 14. The impact of plastic on the planet - Raconteur
- SDG 15. Global ocean governance is all at sea. It’s time to fix it | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. More acidic oceans 'will affect all sea life' - BBC News
September 2017
- SDG 00. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Visualising the SDG Challenges | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Business Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals - PwC
- SDG 00. Global Goals Week 2017 | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. How to avoid greenwashing on the SDGs | Priti Hoffmann | Pulse | LinkedIn
- SDG 00. Meeting the SDGs: A global movement gains momentum - The Economist Intelligence Unit
- SDG 00. The SDGs are good enough and it's time to stop analyzing and start acting | Devex
- SDG 00. The UN has a 17-step plan to save the world | World Economic Forum
- SDG 00. Towards a sustainable economy: The commercial imperative for business to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals — Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
- SDG 01. How to reverse extreme poverty | Leila Janah | Pulse | LinkedIn
- SDG 01. Progress on global poverty and disease at risk, Gates says
- SDG 01. UNDP, UN Environment Outline Poverty-Environment Action for SDGs | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 05. How Globalization and Technological Change Affect Gender Equality - Centre for Inclusive Growth
- SDG 06. Global Water and Land Meetings Address Drought | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 06. World Water Week Emphasizes Value of Water | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 07. Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Cities: Achieving SDGs 7 and 11 | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 07. How blockchain can make the world more energy efficient | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. Solar energy will surpass nuclear by the end of the year | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. Solar has the brightest sustainable energy future. Here's why | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. Sustainable Energy Heat Maps Identify High Impact Countries for Energy-Related Interventions | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 13. Climate Change Mitigation Opportunities Index 2017
- SDG 13. How do you cool 7.5 billion people on a warming planet? - The Verge
- SDG 13. Hurricane Irma: Major news networks are failing to explain that Hurricane Harvey was fueled by climate change — Quartz
- SDG 13. Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C may still be possible : Nature News & Comment
- SDG 13. Rainfall Extremes, Floods Exacerbated by Climate Change Affect the World’s Regions | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 13. Rising temperatures cut economic output - Climate News NetworkClimate News Network
- SDG 13. The 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change are all flawed — Quartz
- SDG 13. The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention - Politico
- SDG 13. These experts say we have three years to save the planet from irreversible destruction | World Economic Forum
- SDG 14. Trash Isles: Could the Great Pacific Garbage Patch become an official nation? — Quartz
- SDG 15. FAO Toolbox and Publication Support Land Restoration | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 16. What comes first: peace or sustainable development? | Mel Wilson | Pulse | LinkedIn
July-August 2017
- SDG 00 SDG report 2017
- SDG 00. Report 2017 Provides Overview of Efforts to Achieve SDGs | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals | Matthias Klettermayer | TEDxSalveReginaU - YouTube
- SDG 00. HLPF Side Event Discusses Complexity in SDG Implementation | IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD
- SDG 00. Private sector initiatives that promote the SDGs
- SDG 00. Update - 13 July 2017 - IISD's IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub
- SDG 00. Update - 21 July 2017 - IISD's IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub
- SDG 00. Update - 27 July 2017 - IISD's IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub
- SDG 00. Year 2 of the 2030 Agenda -- SDGLive, High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2017) - July 18, 2017
- SDG 01. Fighting poverty with plastic - Raconteur
- SDG 02. Achieving Zero Hunger requires transforming rural economies, investing in sustainable agriculture | Responsible Business
- SDG 02. Global Food Security Index
- SDG 02. This map shows where your food really comes from – and it might surprise you | World Economic Forum
- SDG 02. Vulnerable 'Chokepoints' Threaten Global Food Security - The Atlantic
- SDG 03. Community engagement models can lead to improved health in disadvantaged populations | RealKM
- SDG 05. Older women are what business needs - People agenda
- SDG 06. Billions around the world lack safe water, proper sanitation facilities, reveals UN report | Responsible Business
- SDG 06. Water for people or nature is a false choice. We need to think bigger to protect the world's water | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. India is rolling out trains with solar-powered coaches that’ll save thousands of litres of diesel | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. Solar has the brightest sustainable energy future. Here's why | World Economic Forum
- SDG 07. This is how Big Oil will die – NewCo Shift
- SDG 13. Four Ways Anyone Can Take Climate Action | Climate Reality
- SDG 13. Global Warming Might Be Speeding Up - Bloomberg
- SDG 13. Paul Hawken on One Hundred Solutions to the Climate Crisis - Yale E360
- SDG 13. Sea level fears as Greenland darkens - BBC News
- SDG 13. That huge iceberg should freak you out. Here's why - CNN.com
- SDG 13. The Road to Action: Financial regulation addressing climate change
- SDG 13. What You Can Do About Climate Change | Mordy Golding | Pulse | LinkedIn
- SDG 13. Why I’ve signed Shell up to this climate transparency drive | Ben van Beurden | Pulse | LinkedIn
- SDG 13. World Desertification Day: Concerted Effort in Global Resilience to Turn Back Drought and Desertification
- SDG 14. 10 Low-Key Companies That Are Changing Aquaculture | Business Markets and Stocks News | host.madison.com
- SDG 14. Our oceans are in crisis – here are 5 things we can do to save them | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. A change in your diet could save animals from extinction | World Economic Forum
- SDG 15. Half of All Plastic Was Made in the Past 13 Years - The Atlantic
- SDG 15. These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day | World Economic Forum
- SDG 17. Engaging with the UN’s sustainable development goals
2016
October
- Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for education by 2030 will be major challenge for all countries
- Annual report 2016: corporate impact - PwC
- Earth posts hottest August on record and 16th straight month of unsurpassed heat - The Washington Post
- Five reasons cities should take a leading role on food waste | Sustainable Cities
- Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun - The New York Times
- How To Succeed At Sustainability (And Why Greenwashing Doesn´t Work) | Content Loop
- In a world of 7 billion people how can we protect wildlife? | Environment | The Guardian
- It’s Time for Latin America to Adapt to Global Climate Change
- Leave no SDG behind - The Guardian
- Let's harness synthetic biology to fix our broken planet | New Scientist
- Recalculating the Climate Math | New Republic
- Switzerland is voting "for a sustainable and resource-efficient economy" : Futurology
- The Arctic just had the warmest winter on record. The repercussions will be global | World Economic Forum
- The Economist explains: What is Africa’s “Great Green Wall”? | The Economist
- The end of fossil fuels, Asia and Europe draw up a Global Energy Grid | Global Futurist Magazine by Matthew Griffin
- This animation shows how our planet is getting hotter every year | World Economic Forum
- Tomorrow's prized resources - The Economist
- Water Wars in Central Asia - Foreign Affairs
September
- 96 Cities That Are Quitting Fossil Fuels and Moving Toward 100% Renewable Energy - EcoWatch
- Agriculture and overuse greater threats to wildlife than climate change – study | Environment | The Guardian
- Arup | Thoughts | Building with nature to create sustainable cities
- Chart: Countries Where over 80% of Electricity is Renewable | The Data Blog
- Corporate climate leadership (in a world trying to avoid 1.5°C) | Forum for the Future
- English Village Becomes Climate Leader by Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch - The New York Times
- India's forests are worth $1.7 trillion, more than the GDP of Russia or Brazil — Quartz
- Just 90 companies are to blame for most climate change, this 'carbon accountant' says | Science | AAAS
- NASA: Last Month Was Earth's Hottest in Recorded History - ABC News
- Nice business models, but where’s the sustainability? | Forum for the Future
- Outdoor air pollution will cause up to 9 million premature deaths a year by 2060, says the OECD | World Economic Forum
- Renewables Jump 70% in Shift Away From Fossil Fuels | RealClearEnergy
- This is why we can't rely on trees to prevent global warming | World Economic Forum
August
- 4 billion people face water shortages, scientists find | World Economic Forum
- Disasters linked to climate can increase risk of armed conflict | Environment | The Guardian
- Global Warming Cited as Wildfires Increase in Fragile Boreal Forest - NYTimes.com
- Grinding Chemicals Together in an Effort to be Greener - The New York Times
- LinksSDGs
- Masdar City: photos of Abu Dhabi's 'green city’ in the Arabian Desert - Tech Insider
- Modern Energy Special Report - Financial Times
- The earth really is getting hotter, and we’re poorer for it | World Economic Forum
- The future of cities: measuring sustainability | KPMG | GLOBAL
- This is how cities can fight climate change | World Economic Forum
July
- 4 billion people face water shortages, scientists find | World Economic Forum
- Disasters linked to climate can increase risk of armed conflict | Environment | The Guardian
- Global Warming Cited as Wildfires Increase in Fragile Boreal Forest - NYTimes.com
- Grinding Chemicals Together in an Effort to be Greener - The New York Times
- LinksSDGs
- Masdar City: photos of Abu Dhabi's 'green city’ in the Arabian Desert - Tech Insider
- Modern Energy Special Report - Financial Times
- The earth really is getting hotter, and we’re poorer for it | World Economic Forum
- The future of cities: measuring sustainability | KPMG | GLOBAL
- This is how cities can fight climate change | World Economic Forum
May-June
- 4 in 5 city dwellers live in overpolluted urban areas - CNN.com
- 7 reasons why the G7 must tackle the oceans in crisis - World Economic Forum
- Billion people face global flooding risk by 2060 - BBC
- Climate change puts 1.3 billion people and $158 trillion at risk, World Bank warns
- Climate exodus predicted in the Middle East and North Africa - Future Timeline
- Global Private Investment in Green Tech Totals $7.13 Trillion - RSA
- India’s water shortage is more than a tale of town versus country - FT.com
- Our love of cheap clothing has a hidden cost: it’s time for a fashion revolution - World Economic Forum
- The future of cities: measuring sustainability - KPMG
- The Future of Fossil Fuels - Oxford Review of Economic Policy
- The Ocean Economy in 2030 - OECD READ edition
- This Dutch town will grow its own food, live off-grid, and handle its own waste - Science Alert
- Trees benefit from radiant heat and nutrients in urban area - Gizmag
- Water scarcity threatens growth and stability, study warns - FT.com
- We can use nature to manage climate risks. Here's how - World Economic Forum
- Why this year may be the warmest ever - The Economist
- Why Some People Find Crowded Cities Relaxing And Others Don’t - CityLab
April
- Growing New York's underground park - The Economist 1843 magazine
- Humanity Could Give Up Fossil Fuels In 10 Years If It Wanted To - Huffington Post
March
- By 2050 there may be more plastic in our oceans than fish - Avaaz
- Climate Change Could Lead To Increased Rates Of Deadly Diseases - The Lancet
- Climate Change is Shifting Natural Resources and Wealth Along With It- Newsweek
- Climate change 'to make transatlantic flights longer' - The Guardian
- February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount - The Guardian
- Food scarcity caused by climate change could cause 500,000 deaths by 2050, study suggests - Washington Post
- Government efforts to tackle global warming are significant but insufficient. Business should and can do more - INSEAD
- Increasing drought threatens almost all U.S. forests - National Science Foundation
- Industries and their water usage: the risks - Thomas Net News
- The Planet Just Shattered Another Heat Record - Mother Jones
- Understanding the business response to climate change and resource scarcity - Carbon Trust
February
- BP’s Annual Energy Outlook to 2035 - BP
- Can this revolution save our warming planet? - World Economic Forum
- Climate change and Financial Services - The Day After Tomorrow - PwC
- Climate risks could wreak havoc on financial markets, EU watchdog warns - The Guardian
- How cities can lead the way toward a low-carbon future - Ensia
- Why Copenhagen works: lessons in city governance - Brookings Institution
January
- 10 green building megatrends - Sourceable
- 50% of the world's population will live in conditions of "water stress" by 2030 - Bank of America
- A future with clean energy: what the world could look like in 2030 - Mashable
- By 2050, our oceans will hold more plastic than fish - Future Timeline
- Cereal harvests fall by 10% in 50 years - The Independent
- Climate change: a risk to the global middle classes - UBS
- Climate change could lead to an energy crisis - Mail Online
- Here's how climate change will affect what you eat - BBC
- Human societies will soon start to experience adverse effects from climate change- Gerd Leonhard
- Is there enough water for 7bn of us? - BBC
- On the growth of "sponge cities" - World Future Council
- Solar panel costs predicted to fall 10% a year - The Guardian
- The World Could Go 100% Renewable by 2050, A New Study From Stanford University Says - Solar Crunch
- World Economic Forum Ranks Water Crises as Top Long-term Risk - Circle of Blue
2015
December
- 10 reasons why cities hold the key to climate change and global health - The Guardian
- Financing cities in a changing climate - Worldwatch Institute
- How world can go 100% renewables by 2050 – and save money - Renew Economy
- Man-made warming blamed for exceptional weather conditions- Financial Times
- Six graphics that explain climate change - BBC
- Taking it to the Streets: How Cities Will Help Make the Paris Agreement Real - The GLOBE Series
- Technology that could disrupt the course of climate change - CBS News
- Water scarcity poses economic and security threat around the world - The Globe and Mail
- Why we need to bring nature back into cities- BBC
- World’s Cities Join Growing Push to Divest From Fossil Fuels - National Geographic
November
- Blue energy: how mixing water can create electricity - BBC
- Climate change is going to be expensive - for everybody - WIRED
- Is the "sharing economy" sustainable? - Economist Intelligence Unit
- Most of Britain's major cities pledge to run on green energy by 2050 - The Guardian
- Spotlight on Climate Change: Does this change everything? - PwC
- Technological breakthroughs will make fossil fuels unburnable, not bureaucrats - City AM
- This City is the World’s First to Mandate Climate Change Warning Labels on Gas Pumps - Eco Watch
- The upside of addressing climate change - Financial Times
October
- An expanded local and regional food system could create new vulnerabilities to natural disasters - Shaping Tomorrow
- Climate change is getting worse and U.N. climate reports are getting harder to understand - The Washington Post
- Climate Change: how do we know? - NASA
- Climate Change: Still Don't Believe it is Happening? Well 97% of Climate Scientists Disagree With You - Policy.Mic
- Climate refugees: the communities displaced by global warming - The Guardian
- How will we feed 10 billion people - Eco-Business Asia Pacific
- Is This The Energy Storage Breakthrough We Have Been Waiting For? - Oilprice.com
- Lack of Resources Could Create 50 Million Climate Migrants in Decade - NewsweekP
- Permafrost warming in parts of Alaska 'is accelerating' - BBC
- Reimagine agriculture to rewild the land - EcoHustler
- The $250 Trillion Cost Of Climate Change And Obesity - TriplePundit
- The Edge Is the Greenest, Most Intelligent Building in the World - Bloomberg
- The holy grail of climate economics; a price on carbon - Environmental Defence Fund
- The water scarcity crisis - Arup
- This growing migration crisis is the canary in the mine on climate change - The Guardian
- This Is How The World's Climate Changed Last Year - ThinkProgress
- Total fuel demand in all transport modes will increase - Shaping Tomorrow
- Waste Pollution Facts - The World Counts
- Why a Low Carbon Future Doesn’t Have to Cost the Earth - Citi
- World set to use more energy for cooling than heating - The Guardian
September
- A rare problem - The Economist
- Analysis shows nuclear energy competitive with other baseload power sources - International Energy Agency
- Arctic melting will cost the global economy £33 trillion by end of next century, scientists calculate - Futurology
- CEO pulse on climate change - PwC
- Citi report: slowing global warming would save tens of trillions of dollars - The Guardian
- Earth's trees number 'three trillion' - BBC
- Global warming alert as El Niño returns with a vengeance - Financial Times
- Is the world running out of space? - BBC
- Life on the high seas: how ocean cities could become reality - Financial Times
- Plunging oil prices put question mark over $1.5tn of projects - Financial Times
- Marine wildlife populations have halved in the last 40 years - The Independent
- Oil prices could fall to $20 a barrel says Goldman Sachs - The Guardian
- The $11 trillion tech boom that could cut emissions 20% - GreenBiz
August
- A greener China - and what it might mean for the rest of the world - PwC
- Africa's dry forests key to food security - Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
- Apple, Goldman Among Companies in $140 Billion Climate Pledge - Bloomberg Politics
- China needs big strides to achieve its intensity target - PwC
- Climate Change Could Possibly Erase 50 Years of Health Advancements, Experts Say - Health.com
- Climate change is making your flights slightly longer, and creating more climate change - Quartz
- Cost of not acting on climate change: $44 trillion - Citi
- Drought in a megacity: Sao Paulo is withering after a dry wet season - CityMetric
- Global demand for food is projected to increase by approximately 35% by 2030 - Shaping Tomorrow
- How companies can adapt to climate change - McKinsey
- Preparing for water scarcity - The Economist
- There's a food crisis coming. Are we ready? - The Telegraph
- Undervaluing water reduces shareholder value and harms ecosystems - World Wildlife Fund
- Water scarcity is becoming a business problem - CNBC
- What energy shortage? - Project Syndicate
- Why a low carbon future doesn't need to cost the earth - Citi
July
- Access to water for businesses what you need to know - PwC
- Air pollution in Europe costs $1.6 trillion, c. 9% of EU GDP - Project Syndicate
- California Is Running On Empty -Newsweek
- China to cap rising emissions by 2030 in boost to Paris U.N. deal - Reuters
- Clean Energy investment shifting to developing economies - ThinkGeoEnergy
- Crop Farming 2030 - Boston Consulting Group
- How Sustainable Urbanisation Can Help People out of Poverty - New Cities Foundation
- Science, technology ‘key elements’ of sustainable urbanisation - Citiscope
- Six major energy companies write to UN to request help in setting up carbon pricing scheme - Independent
June
- A moonshot to save a warming planet - Financial Times
- Building value by addressing the impact of climate change - PwC
- Climate change a medical emergency, says commission chairman - Financial Times
- Climate change and resource scarcity - PwC
- Food System Shock: the insurance impacts of acute disruption to global food supply - Lloyds
- Solar could be similar to the shale gas disruption for the utilities industry - Roland Berger
- What Do Your Country's Emissions Look Like? - World Resources Institute
- World’s 18 Most Water-Stressed Rivers - World Resources Institute
- Business plays a key role in tackling climate change - UN Climate Change Conference
- We Could Power Entire World on Renewables by 2025 - Global Apollo Programme
- Why climate uncertainty justifies action - Financial Times
- Climate campaign wins over more senior executives - Financial Times
- Climate change threatens electric power supply in California - The Guardian
- How Cities Are Key to Curbing Climate Change - Park Won-soon
- The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust- BBC
- The next breakthrough in solar technology costs - Business Spectator
- Responding to resource scarcity: supply chain perspectives- Eco-Business
- Shale oil technology could unlock billions of barrels overseas - Houston Chronicle
May
- Climate change: Americans crowding into future heatwave zones - The Guardian
- Major New Index Ranks Environmental Democracy in 70 Countries - World Resources Institute
- Food Prices Are Lower Today than in 1961 - Cato
- Germany, the Green Superpower - New York Times
- Local governments leading the way to a global climate solution - The World Bank
- Seven sustainability trends shaping Southeast Asia - Forum for the Future
- Tourist stops change dramatically as the climate shifts - USA Today
- Pollution and overfishing erode $24 trillion ocean economy - GreenBiz
- Rapid buses, air pollution, and schools that no one goes to: urban India's next challenges - CityMetric
- The World Will Soon be at War Over Water - Newsweek
- Turning city waste into biofuels - The New Economy
- Urban farms now produce 1/5 of the world's food - GreenBiz
- 20 Images That Show The Human Impact on The Planet - Realities Watch
- For developing countries, new opportunities in geothermal energy - FAO News
- Megacities Might Not Save the Planet - WIRED
- Programming the Global Food System, from Smart Seeds to Distribution Robots - Food + Tech Connect
- Our climate imperatives - International New York Times
- The Greening of Asia: the Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency - Financial Times
April
- CEOs Urging Action in 2015 on Global Climate - Weather Underground
- Circular economy could bring 70 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2030 - The Guardian
- Oceans are world's seventh largest economy worth $24tn - World Wildlife Fund
- One man’s quixotic quest for a greener future - Financial Times
- Almost everyone is underestimating renewables - TreeHugger
- Annual Energy Outlook 2015 with projections towards 2040 - Energy Information Administration
- Cut carbon now to avoid climate tipping points - Climate News Network
- Is city life the future of sustainability? - The Guardian
- State of Sustainability 2015 report - Ethical Corporation
- The way we live now: the rise of the energy-producing home - The Guardian
- Californians told to cut water use by 25% - Financial Times
- California’s hopes for water turn to dust - Financial Times
- Climate change is a human rights issue - UNHCR
- Renewable energy forecasts to 2020 - International Energy Agency
March
- 3 breakthroughs that can help bring power to over a billion people - ONE
- California's About to Run Out of Water. We Have to Act Now - WIRED
- Climate change: China official warns of 'huge impact' - BBC
- Climate change – in sight, out of mind - Shaping Tomorrow
- Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability - Worldwatch Institute Blog
- Leaders of European cities make pledge to tackle climate change - The Guardian
- Three ways to increase investment in natural infrastructure, at home and around the world- CNN
- Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink - Shaping Tomorrow
- Why Water Scarcity Is Such a Big Problem for Big Business - Cheat Sheet
- World must address water challenge or risk conflict - United Nations
- Concrete coastlines it's time to tackle our marine 'urban sprawl - The Conversation
- Global carbon emissions stall in 2014 - Financial Times
- Just how green is wind power? - Siemens
- New Global Water Network at PwC - Spark
- This Farm In A Box Can Grow As Much Lettuce As An Acre Of Land - Co.Exist ideas + impact
- Vertical Forest An Urban Treehouse That Protect Residents from Air and Noise Pollution - Colossal
- China’s wind farms can now produce more energy than all of America’s nuclear plants - Quartz
- Cleanest cities in the world - Sustainable Cities
- Electric cars could cut oil imports 40% by 2030 - The Guardian
- Future farming to be based on robots and big data - KurzweilAI
- Citigroup to invest $100bn in tackling climate change - The Guardian
- Germany sees fourfold increase in renewables since 2000 - EurActiv
- No Hiding From Sustainable Development - Project Syndicate
- Obama proposes $4 billion for states beating climate goals - Bloomberg News
- What are the 3 mega-trends that could prove the end is in sight for fossil fuels? - 2degrees
- World Has Not Woken Up to Water Crisis Caused by Climate Change - Scientific American
February
- Cooling down cities could make a big difference to global warming - CityMetric
- Energy Outlook 2035 - BP
- European carbon market reform set for 2019 - The Guardian
- Humans are putting 8 million metric tons of plastic in the oceans annually - The Washington Post
- The Arctic Ocean Awakening - The Economist
- UK government approves world’s largest offshore wind farm - The Climate Group
- What are the Best Indicators for Measuring the Sustainability of Cities? - Sustainablecitiescollective
- What Singapore Can Teach All Cities About Using Urban Green Infrastructure To Mitigate Megadroughts - Resilience
- 3 Big Issues to Watch at the Geneva Climate Talks - World Resources Institute
- Fossil fuel industry must take stranded assets seriously - The Guardian
- Geoengineering Not The Best Way To Fight Climate Change... Yet - Forbes
- India v China Airpocalypse - The Economist
- Mega-droughts predicted in the US will last decades - New Scientist
- Understanding the UN climate negotiations - The Climate Group
- Climate Change Infographic - Business Insider
- The New Climate Economy Report - LSE Cities
January
- Awareness of Resource Scarcity is Growing But Understanding of Business Impacts is Limited – CSRwire
- China's economic boom will lead to water shortage crisis - Click Green
- Climate change will hit Australia harder than rest of world, study shows - The Guardian
- Copenhagen's climate-change adapted neighborhood - Al Jazeera America
- Global Calculator shows how the world can 'prosper' while tackling climate change - Carbon Brief
- Global warming 'doubles risk' of extreme weather - BBC
- How climate change will limit growth - The World Economic Forum
- Measuring cities by satellite means we can finally compare them - CityMetric
- Regenerative Urban Development - futurepolicy
- Researcher Demonstrates Link Between Urbanisation and Reduced Global Energy Use - University of Maryland
- Sustainable development goals changing the world in 17 steps – interactive - The Guardian
- The Responsible Investor’s Guide to Climate Change by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa Sachs - Project Syndicate
- Which countries will suffer the most from climate change?
- The real climate battle after a sweltering 2014 - Financial Times
- The Year of Resilience - Project Syndicate
- What is the economic cost of climate change? - World Economic Forum
- Cleaner and greener transport - The Economist
- Food prices will increase by 40 percent by 2030 - Shaping Tomorrow
- How Cities Can Save Trillions, Curb Climate Change, and Improve Public Health - World Resources Institute
- Innovating for Smart, Sustainable Cities - World Resources Institute
- Prepare for rising migration driven by climate change, governments told - The Guardian
- UN’s food price index drops to a 4-year low - Financial Times
- The city where 77% of journeys are sustainable - The World Economic Forum
- Visualising the Past, Present and Future of Carbon Emissions - World Resources Institute
- Why Cities are the Solution to Climate Change - World Resources Institute
- Why Cities Can (and Should) Lead the Sustainable Consumption Movement - Cities for People
- In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food than they did in the previous 10,000 put together - The Economist
- New, privatised African city heralds climate apartheid - The Guardian
- Please Steal Our Fossil Fuels - Project Syndicate
- Where Has Global Warming Gone? - Project Syndicate
2014
- 10 Of The Most Innovative Sustainability Solutions From Cities Across The Globe – Urban Times
- 10 reasons to be hopeful that we will overcome climate change Environment theguardian
- 10 Things You Should Know About Food Waste – Urban Times
- 100% of the world’s power could be supplied by renewables by 2050 Impact Lab
- 10Minutes on eco-efficiency Spark
- 12 Agrihoods Taking Farm-to-Table Living Mainstream – Urban Times
- 22 Megatrends That Will Transform Retail Sustainability - Retail Checkout
- 33rd Square Five Inventions That Can Green Up Our World
- 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic About Sustainable Urban Mobility World Resources Institute
- 7 industries at greatest risk from climate change
- 8 big changes coming to agriculture by 2030 Impact Lab a
- A Game-Changing Week on Climate Change Inter Press Service
- A map and a compass for climate talks - The Hindu
- A New Economic Vision for Addressing Climate Change Jeremy Rifkin
- A Statistically Representative Climate Change Debate - Julie Beck - The Atlantic
- A tech breakthrough to fight climate change - The World Economic Forum
- A world without water - FT investigation
- Addresses the increasingly close links between resource scarcity and political risk - Project Syndicate
- Africa builds 'Great Green Wall' of trees to improve farmlands (Science Alert)
- allafrica.com Nigeria FBN Forum Identifies Sustainability as Next Megatrend to Grow Economy
- April Becomes 1st Month With CO2 Levels Above 400 PPM Climate Central
- Australia amed worst-performing industrial country on climate change Environment The Guardian
- BBC - Future - Pig business Can mega-farming become more humane
- BBC News - Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984
- bcg.perspectives - The Ongoing Rise of Shale Gas
- Best Business Books 2014 Sustainability
- Blogs review The economics of big cities Jérémie Cohen-Setton at Bruegel
- Chinese efforts to fight global warming. - Project Syndicate
- Climate Action Does Not Require Economic Sacrifice Voices
- Climate change could stunt global #GDP growth 1.5% by 2060 if not addressed - OECD
- Climate Change Increases Risk of Crop Slowdown in Next 20 Years
Climate change infographic reveals the four scenarios awaiting humanity Mail Online - Climate Change Is an Opportunity to Dramatically Reinvent the Economy - The Atlantic
- Climate Change Is Single Biggest Risk To Global Economy - Paulson At CGI2014 - Forbes
- Climate Change Will Force Us to Abandon Cities if We Don't Prepare Now New Republic
- Climate Change will Impact Credit Ratings of Nations Most at Risk States S&P World Future Society
- Climate data from air, land, sea and ice in 2013 reflect trends of a warming planet
- Climate sceptics are losing their grip - FT
- Climate Shift - Flipboard
- CO2 concentrations top 400 parts per million throughout northern hemisphere
- Denmark leads the charge in renewable nergy European Elections 2014 DW.DE 02.05
- Do We Know The Cost of Dealing or Not Dealing with Climate Change World Future Society
- Earth Has 52 Percent Fewer Wild Animals Today Than in 1970 Report Motherboard
- Earth Will Cross the Climate Danger Threshold by 2036 - Scientific American
- Economist Intelligence Unit - The Business of C... Spark
- Effects of climate change ‘irreversible,’ U.N. panel warns in report - The Washington Post
- Ending the Oil Age » IAI TV
- Even at today’s 'low' level of #ClimateChange, the devastation is already all too real - Project Syndicate
- First global standard to measure greenhouse gas emissions from cities launched Down To Earth
- Five Ways Companies Can Cope With A Resource-Constrained World Co.Exist ideas + impact
- Flooding Risk From Climate Change, Country by Country - NYTimes
- Food loss and its intersection with food security
- Four Possible Emissions Pathways - World Resources Institute
- Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Energy Needs From Renewable Energy – Urban Times
- Getting resourceful about resource scarcity - Al Arabiya News
- Global Carbon Footprint Ranked by Nationality Infographic Under Design
- Global Warming’s Upside-Down Narrative
- Goal to end fossil fuels by 2050 surfaces in Lima UN climate documents Graham Readfearn Environment The Guardian
- Growth in the New Climate Economy by Michael Spence - Project Syndicate
- Half The Planet’s Wildlife Has Died Off In The Last 40 Years Co.Exist ideas + impact
- Heating people through local warming - The Economist
- Here’s How Climate Change Will Make Food Less Nutritious TakePart
- How Climate Change Will Screw The World - Business Insider
- How ignoring climate change could sink the U.S. economy - The Washington Post
- How is food security linked to political and economic stability - Deal Talk
- How to grow without breaking the planet
- How to talk sense about climate change LinkedIn
- IEA - June- World needs $48 trillion in investment to meet its energy needs to 2035
- In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food than they did in the previous 10,000 put together The Economist
- Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture A Scoping Analysis World Resources Institute
- Inspiration For A Sustainable, Healthy Beijing – Urban Times
- Intelligent Imagining Scenarios to Manage Water as the Climate Changes World Resources Institute
- IPCC report six graphs that show how we're changing the world's climate Environment theguardian
- Jeffrey D. Sachs says that the fight against global warming is mainly a technological problem. - Project Syndicate
- Just what is going on in this climate of ours ideas.ted
- Latest State of the Climate Yup, Still Getting Hotter - Bloomberg
- Launch of the New Climate Economy at the United Nations World Resources Institute
- Leveraging the New “Natural Growth” – Megatrends, Accelerators and Risks LinkedIn
- Lili Fuhr and Johnny West encourage oil-producing countries to prepare for more robust climate policies. - Project Syndicate
- Lima climate change talks reach global warming agreement Environment The Guardian
- Low Carbon Economy Index - PwC UK
- Meat eating and climate change Vegetarians’ impact on the economy, antibiotics, global warming
- Melting glaciers threaten global sea levels - FT
- Natural capital on a par with financial assets’ importance - The Accountant
- New Statesman The fourth-largest lake in the world has now completely dried up
- New Study Adds Up the Benefits of Climate-Smart Development in Lives, Jobs, and GDP
- Not enough water in the world by 2040 - Aarhus University
- On the cost of air pollution
- One in 40 living in areas likely to be underwater by 2100 - Blue and Green Tomorrow
- One-Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted What Can Be Done
- Our Last Chance for a Safe Planet
- Oxford Analytica - Africa's cities shape investment and growth outlook
- Pentagon We Could Soon Be Fighting Climate Wars Mother Jones
- Plastic rubbish heaps at sea pose bigger threat to Earth than climate change - The Independent
- Please Steal Our Fossil Fuels by Adair Turner - Project Syndicate
- PwC creates the most sustainable building in the world Guardian Sustainable Business Guardian Professional
- Record Greenhouse Gas Levels Impact Atmosphere and Oceans - World Meteorological Organisation
- Reducing Food Loss and Waste An Overlooked Strategy for Creating a Sustainable Food System World Resources Institute
- Reducing water scarcity possible by 2050 Newsroom - McGill University
- Renewables create 10 times more jobs than fossil fuels Trillion Fund
- Resource stress – Future State 2030 KPMG GLOBAL
- Responsible Business Sustainable efforts show signs of paying off - FT
- Rhein on Energy and Climate » Blog Archive » Technological breakthroughs against climate change brighten the horizon
- S&P climate change is a ‘megatrend’ set to impact national creditworthiness - Blue and Green Tomorrow
- Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change World Resources Institute
- Seven Climate Change Impacts That Are Altering Our Planet Now Worldwatch Institute Blog
- Shale jubilation fades as oil price falls undercut model - FT
- Simon Zadek on Financing the Green Economy - Project Syndicate
- Simon Zadek warns that continued inaction on climate change will trigger another financial crisis - Project Syndicate
- Six growing trends in corporate sustainability GreenBiz
- Spotlight on water scarcity PwC
- Study Green energy drawing investment worldwide Al Jazeera America
- Sustainability 24 Event Agenda - Accenture
- Sustainable Development Economics by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate
- Sustainable Urbanisation Take Action Climate change
- Take Action - UN and Climate Change
- Terrible Effects Of Climate Change - Business Insider
- The $142 Trillion Resource No One's Paying Attention To ThinkProgress
- The $9.7 Trillion Problem Cyclones and Climate Change Climate Central
- The 10 things you need to know from the new IPCC climate report Grist
- The Business Approach to Climate Change - strategy&
- The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About - The Atlantic
- The Coming Climate Crash - New York Times
- The coming era of unlimited — and free — clean energy - The Washington Post
- The Economist explains Why scientists are (almost) certain that climate change is man-made
- The Future of Evacuations in the Climate Change Era - CityLab
- The Nation Most Likely to Survive Climate Change Motherboard
- The Resource Revolution
- The UN Climate Summit What's in it for Cities World Resources Institute
- The ‘age of abundance’ in oil and gas poses fresh dilemmas for companies - FT
- These Are The Countries Most Vulnerable To Climate Change Co.Exist ideas + impact
- U.N. Draft Report Lists Unchecked Emissions’ Risks - NYTimes
- UN calls drought world’s costliest natural disaster - Project Syndicate
- UN chief warns still 'too many sitting on the fence', urges bold leadership on climate change
- Unity of Water - Mikhael Gorbachev
- Urban rooftop farms can yield 20 times more produce than traditional farms
- Urban world Cities and the rise of the consuming class McKinsey & Company
- Wake up and save the coffee Making development climate-resilient OECD Insights Blog
- Water scarcity and rising energy costs threaten mining industry - FT
- Water Scarcity Challenges to Business - Scientific American
- Water shortages pose larger than expected threat to shale gas - FT
- Weather Report 2050 - Weather Channel
- What’s The World To Do About Water Popular Science
- Where Has Global Warming Gone by Ka-Kit Tung - Project Syndicate
- Where Will The World's Water Conflicts Erupt [Infographic] Popular Science
- WHO Report Climate Change To Cause 250,000 Extra Deaths A Year By 2030 CleanTechnica
- Why Green Roofs Are The Future – Urban Times
- Wind and solar power is catching up with nuclear - The Climate Group
- With Compromises, a Global Accord to Fight Climate Change Is in Sight - NYTimes
- World Oil Production On The Rise - In Photos Where the World's Oil Will Come From - Forbes
- €81 billion savings in Europe's annual energy spend by 2030 possible, reveals Accenture study
- As sponsor to the Commonwealth Business Forum in Malta, PwC launched a challenge to all businesses in the Commonwealth and beyond to engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The "Global Goals Sustainable Business Challenge" is asking that all businesses in the Commonwealth engage with the SDGs by committing to: 1. Hold an informed Board meeting to discuss how their business impacts on the Global Goals; 2. Define their objectives and write an action plan and 3. Publish their commitments and successful initiatives.
- It’s still a challenge for investors to get the information they need on environmental, social and governance issues. About 75% of the S&P 500 produced sustainability reports in 2015, up from 20% in 2011, according to the Government & Accountability Institute. But investors who want to use the information say the information they are getting is often difficult to compare between companies and tough to incorporate into forecasts. “We know investors care about this information,” said Mary Schapiro, the former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman in comments to a Bloomberg Sustainable Business summit in New York Thursday. Yet she added investors are “highly dissatisfied with the information they are getting today” and “can’t really use it effectively for their allocation decisions.”
- Along with 78 other business leaders, PwC pledged support to a World Economic Forum (WEF) letter calling on world leaders who are attending the Paris climate change summit in December to agree an ambitious deal to mitigate the risks posed by climate change. This letter notes that hastening the shift to a low-carbon economy in an economically sustainable manner will generate growth and jobs in both the developing and developed world.
- Green finance should not be another form of aid that wealthy nations will provide to poorer countries, claimed a Financial Times commentator. Nor can it be state-backed project financing in disguise. Instead, the focus should be on harnessing market principles to draw in private capital so that clean technologies can be commercialised and financing shifted away from polluting industries that rely on wreaking environmental destruction without paying for it.
- According to CFA Institute, a global association of investment professionals, 63% of portfolio managers and research analysts interviewed said they take wider information, such as environmental, social and governance (ESG), into account because it helps them better manage investment risk. Of those polled, 44% said they now demand ESG data. For example, the global investment firm KKR’s Green Portfolio Programme now delivers both financial and environmental impact.
- Global temperatures are on course to rise to the highest level since the industrial revolution this year as humans drive the climate into “uncharted territory”, scientists warned. Average temperatures between January and September were 1.02C above pre-industrial levels and, with just three months left in the year, 2015 is shaping up to be a record.
- The European Commission published its proposal for a chapter on trade and sustainable development, including labour and the environment, in the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This approach follows the new EU trade strategy, 'Trade for all', which aims at more responsible trade policies both at home and globally. Moreover, in its ongoing effort to make negotiations on TTIP more transparent, the European Commission also published the first detailed report on the latest negotiating round which took place in October 2015.
- Thousands of politicians, business leaders and civil society groups will gather just outside Paris next month for the biggest UN-hosted talks on tackling climate change since 2009. The Cop 21 summit will seek to agree a reduction in carbon emissions after 20 years of negotiations. The previous meeting in Copenhagen ended without agreement on how to share the burden. Click here for the Financial Times' latest coverage on climate change.
October 2015
- In a recent report, KPMG and the World Wildlife Fund considered the role banks play in dealing with environmental and social ‘megatrends’, including the world’s growing global population, the increasing scarcity of water and other resources and changing weather patterns. The report, titled ‘Ready or Not? An assessment of sustainability integration in the European banking sector’, explored the level of integration of environmental and social considerations in core processes of the bank with particular attention to translating policy into practice.
- A recent TED talk, Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt, warned that we can continue to ignore the climate change problem, but if we do that, we are also choosing to adapt to very much more powerful climate impacts in future. And not only that. As people who live in countries with high per capita emissions, we're making that choice on behalf of others as well.
- PwC published its own updated corporate sustainability website, to complement this year’s new, integrated and digital annual report, released last month. You can access the report by clicking on the following link: www.pwcannualreport.co.uk and access our website here: www.pwc.co.uk/who-we-are/corporate-sustainability.
- Deloitte announced the appointment of Eric Dugelay as Global Leader for Sustainability Services. Formerly a partner in Deloitte France and the EMEA regional leader for Sustainability Services, Dugelay will devote his full-time activities to the role previously held by Dave Pearson. A senior leader with DTTL, Pearson becomes DTTL Chief Sustainability Officer. Valerie Chort and Keiichi Kubo remain Americas and Asia Pacific Regional Sustainability Services Leaders, respectively. Deloitte Sustainability Services encompasses a multitude of disciplines, including strategy, innovation, assurance services, consulting, transaction support, and risk services. More than 2,000 professionals globally are devoted to Deloitte Sustainability Services.
- Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Nike and Ikea are among dozens of global companies that have signed a White House-sponsored pledge to take more aggressive action on climate change, as part of a broad push by President Barack Obama to corral corporate support for a global climate deal this year in Paris.
- Deloitte Consulting was awarded a $9.4 million contract to provide professional support services for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s climate change initiative in Vietnam. USAID said the Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program seeks to promote the deployment of low-emission energy platforms in the country through strategy development within the energy sector and implementation of renewable energy projects. Through V-LEEP, Deloitte will collaborate with the Vietnamese government to help implement policies that aim to achieve energy efficiency, assess emission mitigation approaches and craft strategies for clean energy adoption. V-LEEP also aims to address development challenges such as commercial sector investment and involvement of women in renewable energy development.
- Ingersoll Rand's CEO told the Harvard Business Review that the route to transformation is pursuing an all-inclusive approach, involving action from government, business, research institutions and academia, and the public at large to do their parts. The key is to act now to create the culture change needed to impact climate change. By taking a public stance and working with others, "companies can create a path to a better world".
- PwC published it seventh annual Low Carbon Economy Index. In the run-up to the Paris Climate Summit, The report provides an analysis of G20 economies' growth, and energy-related emissions - including analysis of the implications for individual sectors and countries.
- PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change practice pay an important role in the debate on climate change and each year produce a ‘Low Carbon Economy Index’ to track the progress of the world’s largest economies towards meeting global carbon reduction targets. The 2015 report is now out, and indicates that last year saw a significant improvement in efforts to tackle climate change. Visit the LCEI spark page to read the full LCEI report and for information you can use to start conversations with clients, as well as messages you can share on social media.
September 2015
- S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM, an investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing, announced the results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review. The three largest additions and deletions to the DJSI World in 2015 included, as additions, Bank of America Corp, Telefonica SA and BHP Billiton Ltd, and as deletions, Cisco Systems Inc, PepsiCo Inc and Royal Bank of Canada.
- El Niño remains difficult to predict, yet authorities in e.g. Peru are taking fresh measures to respond. The World Meteorological Organisation has talked of a mature El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, potentially among the four strongest since 1950. Australia, India and Indonesia are already experiencing droughts and meteorologists believe there is a 95% chance that El Niño will last through the first quarter of 2016. There will be wide-ranging impacts in vulnerable economies, but they are likely to include smaller harvests. Although the EIU forecast a modest rise in global food prices in 2016, after four years of decline, its does not expect a major turnaround. Low energy costs, ample stocks and moderating demand growth in emerging markets should keep a lid on prices.
- G7 country leaders aim to phase out fossil fuel emissions this century by supporting the reduction of emissions by 40 to 70% by 2050. In anticipation of the major global Paris Climate Conference in December 2015, the Financial Times selected a range of articles covering themes that are likely to arise in relation to the goal of combatting climate change effectively. These range from corporate social responsibility and self-regulation to governmental intervention and technological solutions.
- According to PwC's CEO pulse on climate change, many global companies acknowledge the reality of climate change and that it will impact their business. Yet, aside from a few very vocal advocates, CEOs have, up until now, tended to look at climate change through the short-term, tactical lens of rising energy costs and making energy efficiency improvements. As climate change starts to affect access to raw materials, the reliability and security of global supply chains, and even the type of products and services consumers demand CEOs must also take a strategic view - one that looks to the short, mid and long-term, to identify both the risks and opportunities for their business.
August 2015
- PwC UK is partnering with BusinessGreen, one of the most respected business news providers on environmental and sustainability issues, to provide a free news platform to share our business and economic analysis in the build up to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21).
- According to INSEAD, sustainability focused startups are entering established companies’ market space, bringing both new threats and new opportunities. Employees want to work for them, customers are willing to pay more for their products and investors are eager to become shareholders. “Hybrid social ventures” like Whole Foods, Patagonia, and Honest Tea that combine commerce with sustainability missions are leading the movement for sustainability oriented innovation in business. For established companies that were not necessarily built with sustainability in mind, these new entrants are competing for their most attractive customers and talent. Customers that prefer sustainability oriented products and services tend to be young and relatively wealthy. Talented employees who have a choice of where to work, particularly millennials, increasingly want to use their skills at companies that they perceive to be doing good in the world. A continued generational shift toward sustainability-oriented values threatens to shift the balance even further in favour of companies that have sustainability baked into their DNA.
July 2015
- Deloitte merged its sustainability and workplace health & safety businesses, and invested in a new safety leadership and culture change business, creating one of the largest professional services sustainability practices in Australia. Deloitte welcomed as a partner Jane Magree, former Director and Principal Consultant of Alinea Consulting, to manage the organisational culture change arm of the Sustainability Services practice.
- Many of the best-known companies are leading the way in green initiatives, according to a recent survey from Brand Keys. The brand research consultancy released a list of the top 50 environmentally friendly organisations ("deemed authentically and resolutely 'green' by their customers"). More than 36,600 consumers took part in the research.
- The Newsweek Green Rankings are one of the world's leading assessments of corporate environmental performance. Based on research from Corporate Knights Capital and HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Inc., the 2015 edition featured eight indicators that are used to assess and measure the environmental performance of the world's largest publicly-traded companies. The Global 500 top-10 green companies are: 1. Biogen (89.2%), 2. SHIRE (85.1%), 3. Allergan (84.2%), 4. Reckitt Benckiser Group (84.1%) and 5. Adobe Systems (82.6%).
June 2015
- Sustainability-focused startups are entering established companies’ market space, bringing both new threats and new opportunities. Employees want to work for them, customers are willing to pay more for their products and investors are eager to become shareholders. “Hybrid social ventures” like Whole Foods, Patagonia, and Honest Tea that combine commerce with sustainability missions are leading the movement for sustainability-oriented innovation in business. For established companies that were not necessarily built with sustainability in mind, these new entrants are competing for their most attractive customers and talent.
- It took about $150bn in today’s money to put a man on the moon in the 1960s, and now it is said we need to come up with the same amount to save the world from climate change. That is the message from Sir David King, UK Foreign Office climate envoy, and six other prominent British scientists, business people and civil servants behind a climate plan modelled on the US Apollo space programme. They want large countries to spend an average of 0.02% of gross domestic product a year for the next decade to encourage the technical breakthroughs needed to make renewable electricity cheaper than coal by 2025.
May 2015
- INSEAD warned that companies get stuck in box-checking when it comes to sustainability. But there is substantial value to be found in making sustainability a strategy.To capture the full value potential from the issues that impact one’s stakeholders, more is needed than the stereotypical checking of boxes in a sustainability report. Companies that exclusively use their materiality matrix (which is used for deciding which CSR initiatives to invest in) for reporting purposes fall into the “reporting trap” where basic environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting apparently fulfils the entire sustainability requirements of the Board and the company’s shareholders. Failing to transpose materialities into a well executed sustainability strategy will lead to missed opportunities for innovation and engagement of stakeholders.
- The World Resources Institute and its partners in the Access Initiative launched the Environmental Democracy Index (EDI), the first publicly available, online platform to track countries’ progress in enacting national laws to promote transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement in environmental decision making. The index evaluates environmental democracy in 70 countries, including 75 legal and 24 practice indicators, based on recognised international standards.The top 10 countries based on national laws are: Lithuania (EDI rank #1), Latvia (2), Russia (3), United States (4), South Africa (5), United Kingdom (6), Hungary (7), Bulgaria (8), Panama (9) and Colombia (10).
- Apple continues to set the bar among technology companies for its commitment to running its worldwide operations on renewable energy, topping Amazon, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo and other large corporations in Greenpeace's Clean Energy Index included as part of its 2015 Click Clean Report. The annual report is based on energy transparency, renewable energy commitment and policy, energy efficiency and mitigation, and renewable energy deployment and advocacy.
April 2015
- According to Women at the top is better for business and the environment, research shows that female leadership is characterised by vision and the ability to convey it to others, but senior sustainability jobs are more likely to held by men.
- Ethical Corporation's State of Sustainability 2015 report, based on the responses of nearly 1,500 sustainability and CSR professionals from all over the globe, analysed the significance of sustainability, asking what does it mean for different organisations and how seriously is it taken at the highest levels of management? It also asked whether silo thinking about sustainability still prevails, or whether the topic is becoming embedded throughout organisations, before examining how sustainability may evolve in the year ahead, and what will the situation be in five years’ time.
- Working with PwC industry and water specialists, PwC's Global Sustainability team has just launched new thought leadership material on water, the challenges and risks it represents to business, and the right way to collaborate on water issues. The PwC report is Collaboration: Preserving water through partnering that works. To aid with the launch, there are infographics here: Water - a challenge for your business and social media messages here: join in the campaign with suggested tweets and posts. Please contact Rebecca Pratley with any questions.
- Deloitte has a new global leader for sustainability services – Eric Dugelay, a former partner in Deloitte France and the firm’s EMEA regional leader for sustainability. He is taking over from Dave Pearson who is moving to take on the role of chief sustainability officer for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Dugelay, who has an MBA from INSEAD and two degrees - one in engineering and the other in Chinese, brings 13 years’ experience of working on sustainability issues. His most recent project was negotiating Deloitte France’s acquisition of Bio Intelligence Services, one of Europe’s leading environmental consulting firms.
March 2015
- Water is fundamental to business – to heat, cool, clean and as an ingredient. Having too little or too much, or water that’s too dirty or too expensive can have devastating effects. Yet, water is the most problematic of resources – think about the reliability and quality of the supply; the impact of drought and flooding; having to manage it on the way out as well as the way in; and having to share it with other users. It’s a challenge for a business in its direct operations and its supply chain, and is often an unquantified risk in its portfolio. PwC therefore launched the Water Hub, where you’ll find everything you need here to engage your clients in a conversation about water. And the right SMEs to introduce to your clients when they want to discuss their water challenges in more detail. Please see Global water network.
- In Sustainability: From the Back Room to the Board Room, INSEAD claimed that creating a sustainable future takes more than good intentions. Boards of directors have an obligation to help drive a strategic approach to corporate sustainability.
February 2015
- Five years ago Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, raised the concept of 'The Perfect Storm' in which the issues of food, water and energy security needed to be addressed at the same time as mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this seminar he highlights changes that have occurred since then and the progress made and challenges that are currently faced.
January 2015
- In 2015, the millennium development goals (MDGs) – launched in 2000 to make global progress on poverty, education, health, hunger and the environment – expire. UN member states are finalising the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will replace them, so the Guardian analysed what the SDGs aim to achieve, how they differ from the MDGs and assessed whether the MDGs made much progress.
- As national governments flounder to resolve pressing global challenges, corporations are positioning themselves within the United Nations framework as efficient players and indispensable partners in international policy debates. The Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability explained the need for accountability and transparency as corporations join the development discussion.
- New research by MIT Sloan Management Review, The Boston Consulting Group and the UN Global Compact, showed that a growing number of companies are turning to collaborations - with suppliers, NGOs, industry alliances, governments, even competitors – to become more sustainable.
- Sustainia, a Scandinavian think tank, and the International Alliance of Research Universities partnered to produce the Green Guide for Universities, offering tangible solutions to address environmental sustainability from some of the top universities in the world. The guide contains 23 case studies in sustainability from universities as diverse as Yale, Cambridge, Peking and Copenhagen.
December 2014
- Project Syndicate warned that the use of plastic must be reined in. Since the 1950s, worldwide production has increased by a factor of one hundred. Every year, more than 280 million tons of plastic is produced, with vast quantities making their way into groundwater, rivers, and oceans – and onward up the food chain. Though plastic is not biodegradable, not a single country has pledged to prevent it from entering our environment.
- The world will need more and better targeted financing to meet the challenges of global development post-2015, argued the OECD. This means taking important decisions not only on what qualifies as official development assistance, but also on how those flows can be most strategically used. An important objective is to provide a better picture of the total resources available for global sustainable development, including for action on climate change, as it is now widely understood that climate change and development are intrinsically linked.
- Old laptop batteries still have enough life in them to power homes in slums, researchers have said. An IBM study analysed a sample of discarded batteries and found 70% had enough power to keep an LED light on more than four hours a day for a year. Researchers said using discarded batteries is cheaper than existing power options, and also helps deal with the mounting e-waste problem.
November 2014
- Technology is at the cutting edge of efforts to make growth more sustainable. As the global population swells and more people move into higher consumption classes, the demand for food, for energy, for water, will all increase. But the resources our planet offers will not. Clearly the status quo is not sustainable. So the question is, how do we use these scarce resources more efficiently? How do we allow everyone to benefit from economic growth, without impinging on opportunities for future generations? The answer for Grant Thornton, is through technology.
- The Big Four continue to win the most mind share among leaders of sustainability worldwide when compared to other services firms, according to a new global survey. The survey by independent research firm Verdantix finds that Deloitte ranks first worldwide in brand preference for both sustainability consulting and sustainability assurance.
- Encouraging customers to make sustainable choices is the biggest environmental challenge companies face. Design, psychology and technology can all help, according to the Carbon Trust. Many companies have achieved energy and resource efficiency gains within their own operations, and are now eyeing the next prize: improving efficiency outside their organisational boundaries.
- PwC published its latest corporate sustainability update. In this year’s report PwC continues to pioneer new ways of describing corporate performance in order to provide better quality information to our stakeholders. If you have the time, please share your thoughts on it by completing the short survey at the end of this article.
- KPMG launched a guide meant to help companies pinpoint issues that matter most to investors in a bid to improve sustainability reporting. Sustainable insight: the essentials of materiality assessment, breaks down assessment of materiality in sustainability into seven phases and seeks to link key issues in sustainability with processes such as enterprise risk management. KPMG says the guide seeks to fill a growing need for materiality assessment amid a growing international focus on sustainability reporting with new reporting frameworks and accounting standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative G4 Guidelines, the International Integrated Reporting Framework and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.
- While almost all companies today advocate sustainability, their practices and attitudes vary greatly. In a series of articles,IMD explored the origins of the sustainability movement, including debates regarding long-term survival and technology (stage 1 of sustainability) and the environmental movement (stage 2), and then assessed the third and fourth stages - those that move beyond the environmental domain to address broader, societal aspects of sustainability.
- An unexpected move by the US and China to jointly set out their plans to tackle global warming prompted a lukewarm response in Europe and hostility in Washington in a sign that sealing a global climate treaty next year still faces big hurdles.
October 2014
- An EIU report Sustainable at every level? Reaching new heights through good values found that for asset managers and other institutional investors, what is required is a fundamental shift away from short-term incentives and reporting and toward more long-term strategies. A deep change in attitudes across the whole investor community is required to ensure businesses are confident their sustainability initiatives will boost, not damage, their attractiveness to investors.
- Dow Jones published its annual Sustainability World Index. The ever widening assessment criteria included tax strategy (to address the growing risks associated with tax optimisation schemes); social and environmental reporting factors, including materiality; human capital development policies; and performance scoring related to occupational health and safety, and talent recruitment and retention.
September 2014
- The Economist cautioned that most corporate sustainability plans rarely amount to more than cost-saving measures and compliance with regulations, plus a few projects with a public- relations punch, but fall well short of putting sustainability at the heart of what firms do. For some companies, though, that is changing. It added that, while the first wave of sustainability rewarded itself",the new wave will not do that. It is more akin to investing now to have a licence to operate in future, with consumers, lobbyists and regulators ever more demanding about the way firms behave.
- Meanwhile, Deloitte’s new whitepaper, CFOs and Sustainability: Shaping their roles in an evolving environment, revealed numerous trends in the environmental, health, safety, and social impacts of the enterprise, found that CFOs are becoming more involved in setting and executing sustainability strategy, the impact of sustainability on key financial decisions has increased in M&A, and capital allocation, and capital raising and compliance with new energy efficiency and carbon regulations remain areas of high concern.
August 2014
- The UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study claimed to be the largest CEO study on sustainability ever conducted, with insights from more than 1,000 CEOs across 103 countries and 27 industries. Included are industry insight reports (e.g. for mining - see below), intended as companion pieces, to be read alongside the global study to give a more in-depth perspective on business leaders' views in key industry sectors.
- According to a new McKinsey survey, executives at all levels see an important business role for sustainability, but when it comes to mastering the reputation, execution, and accountability of their sustainability programmes, many companies have far to go. Company leaders are rallying behind sustainability, and executives overall believe the issue is increasingly important to their companies’ strategy. But as it continues to grow into a core business issue, challenges to capturing its full value lie ahead.
- Access to water has become one of the most significant business risks for miners, said a report that also highlights the threat to the sector from rising energy costs in some resource rich areas. EY said affordable water and energy should now be viewed as one of the 10 biggest problems for miners. The threat was particularly acute in South America and Africa, it said. These continents are significant in the global supply of many metals, particularly copper.
July 2014
- The fifth edition of the Newsweek Green Rankings was released. The 2014 winners were: 1. Vivendi 2. Allergan 3. Adobe Systems 4. Kering 5. NTT DoCoMo 6. Ecolab 7. Atlas Copco 8. Biogen Idec 9. Compass Group and 10. Schneider Electric.
June 2014
- More policy levers need to be introduced before a broader swathe of industry can be persuaded to embrace clean technologies, according to the FT's Sustainable Business: Clean Economy report. The FT noted that consumers are buying sustainable products again, after the global economic downturn reduced demand. “Sustainable, welfare and ethical buying is a re-emerging trend,” according to the chief retail and consumer goods analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit. It also found that repurposing, through a "circular" approach, shows potential for high added value.
- With a global climate deal due in 2015, carbon pricing will play a key role in controlling emissions. This has implications for clients with carbon-intensive assets or investments. The 9th IETA GHG Market Sentiment Survey, that PwC produced, analyses private sector views on carbon pricing. In it, carbon market participants suggest China may put a price on emissions, with a carbon market or similar mechanism expected in the coming years. For a copy of the report, click here.
May 2014
- 82% of investors are dissatisfied with the financial quantification of risks and opportunities and find sustainability information can provide important insight, according to PwC's Investor Resource Institute report, Sustainability goes Mainstream.
March 2014
- A UN panel released the most comprehensive assessment yet of the effects of climate change on our planet. Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the "summary for policymakers" provides overwhelming evidence of the scale of these impacts.
February 2014
- According to Oliver Wyman, companies today are finding themselves at a crossroads with global implications, as increasingly, they are being required to reconcile business growth with the three pillars of sustainability: economic efficiency, ecological integrity, and social equity. If they fail to do so, they could face existential risks, such as runaway resource costs, consumer desertion, or exorbitant fines. Many companies, however, are uncertain as to how best to go about improving their sustainability profile and deriving value from the process. Oliver Wyman’s research suggests that companies that take an active leadership position to harness the trends driving sustainability – rather than reactively implementing sustainability in response to regulation and public pressure – will reap the benefits of a new source of competitive advantage and long-term growth.
- Advances in technology mean the amount of digital information we collectively possess is growing exponentially. Estimates suggest that by 2020 there will be 300 times more information in the world than there was in 2005. Big Data has the power to transform the way corporations understand the impact of their business on the environment, and prompt them to take action on sustainability. But storing and gathering this data is costly in itself, with large data servers located across the world consuming huge amounts of energy and adding to carbon emissions. In a new podcast a panel of experts discuss how big data can help business to tackle questions of sustainability, and ask whether the barriers to using data sustainably can be overcome.
- Two thirds of CEOs of Indian companies say that sustainability is very important to the future success of their business, but less than half (44 percent) think business is making sufficient efforts to address global sustainability challenges, according to a new report published by Global Compact Network India (GCNI) and Accenture .
January 2014
- Accenture argued that while many CEOs of leading companies are now setting ambitious sustainability strategies and targets for their businesses, they are often unclear about how to organise for success. Inevitably, there is no one-size-fits-all model. Businesses have different drivers for sustainability and will need to structure themselves accordingly: the challenge is to organise the sustainability function for an optimal fit with the company’s strategy and existing business model.
December 2013
- New research by MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group looked at companies that “walk the talk” in addressing significant sustainability concerns. So-called “Walkers” focus heavily on five fronts: sustainability strategy, business case, measurement, business model innovation and leadership commitment. For them, addressing significant sustainability issues has become a core strategic imperative and a way to mitigate threats and identify new opportunities.
- Harvard Business Review listed the 10 sustainable business stories from 2013 that it considered too important to miss.
- BCG found that organisations that manage physical resources effectively will start to realise how sustainability can make sense and actually work on the ground - not just to lower costs and risk but also to provide an edge over less aggressive competitors. Managing resources efficiently means setting targets and KPIs to boost efficiency in current operations, and applies to every kind of major resource - from energy to minerals to water.
- Natural gas will overtake coal as a global energy source in the middle of the next decade, in part because of the environmental benefits it offers, according to ExxonMobil. In its annual forecasts of the energy outlook for the next three decades, Exxon says that around 2025 gas will become the world’s second most-used fuel on an energy-equivalent basis, behind oil.
- Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, argued that, in 2014, we must turn what he considers the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today - climate change - into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future, so he has announced next year to be the "year for climate action".
November 2013
- The FT claimed that in November 2013 it was Warsaw’s turn to host a disappointing meeting on climate change. Over the past two decades, many other cities have had this pleasure. This time, 195 countries painfully agreed to make a “contribution” to combating climate change, in place of a more robust “commitment”. The aim is still to reach a strong agreement in Paris in 2015. The chances of success must be negligible, noted the FT.
- PwC published its latest Global Green Policy Insights. Highlights of this edition:China elevates environmental protection to a 'pillar industry'; UK focuses on shale gas, consulting on a proposed tax regime and announcing community benefits; Spain introduces energy market reforms further cutting renewable support and South Korea proposes carbon tax on fossil fuels and electricity and CDP Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013 - What's driving climate change action in the world's largest companies?
- The sixth annual release of Maplecroft’s Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas revealed that 31% of global economic output will be based in countries facing ‘high’ or ‘extreme risks’ from climate change by 2025 — a 50% increase on current levels and more than double since the company began researching the issue in 2008.
- PwC published Spotlight on: Creating and measuring sustainable value. As the concept of what makes business sustainable continues to evolve, we've gathered insights and perspectives from around the firm focusing on what organisations are doing to create and measure sustainable value. (See also this related Spark post.)
October 2013
- Sustainability Practices: 2013 Edition analysed a total of 76 environmental and social practices- including, among others, atmospheric emissions, water consumption, biodiversity policies, labour standards, human rights practices, and charitable and political contributions.
September 2013
- To assist policymakers and the energy industry with pressing forward sustainable energy systems, the World Energy Council, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, prepared the report World Energy Trilemma: Time to get real – the case for sustainable energy investment. This second of a two-part series of reports examines the drivers and risks preventing the development of sustainable energy systems. It then recommends an Agenda for Change to address these risks and to accelerate a global transition to more diversified, and therefore sustainable, energy systems that will present opportunities for economic growth.
- The Arctic’s summer sea ice is set to nearly vanish in less than 40 years, according to the final draft of a sweeping UN climate change report that sharply revised past estimates of how fast the icy north is melting. “A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in September before mid-century is likely,” said the draft of the first large-scale study in six years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The retreating ice is encouraging for Arctic nations such as Russia, which is trying to boost shipping traffic along its icy Northern Sea Route. But it is worrying for scientists because of what was described in a recent study as an “economic time bomb” that could explode if the melting Arctic permafrost releases vast plumes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and drives significant climate change.
- Dow argued that although the evolution to a sustainable world will require commitment and support from each of us, corporations operate at the intersections of society, which gives them unique leverage to drive positive change. In a world where profitability is no longer enough, society also expects companies to serve as active stewards of the planet and support the social fabric that has served them well and sustained their operations, and successful investors eventually will align with companies that meet those expectations. Just as leaders can be easily identified by their actions,corporations can exhibit a series of recognisable “habits” that maximise both their individual talents and their ability to collaborate in support of the common goal of sustainability.
August 2013
- Oliver Wyman launched a new blog as a platform for senior management and practitioners as well as researchers and consultants, exchanging relevant experience and latest knowledge nuggets about sustainability to enrich understanding and facilitate implementation. Its experts and guest bloggers track developments and innovations in the field of sustainability in a dialogue with readers. One recent focus was on the growth of urban agriculture.
- KPMG named the US, Japan, the UK, France, South Korea and China as the most active during Q2 2013 in using tax policy to drive sustainable corporate behaviour and achieve green policy goals. The finding is part of the first ‘KPMG Green Tax Index,’ which explores how governments use tax systems to meet global challenges such as energy security, water and resource scarcity, pollution and climate change.
July 2013
- In On Good Management, Roland Berger asked: how do companies manage to stay in business for decades, reinventing themselves again and again? How do they deal with the growing uncertainty and complexity in the world around us? And what are the implications for good management? For Burkhard Schwenker, CEO of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, striking the right balance between conflicting forces is the key.
- In Resource revolution: Meeting the world’s energy, materials, food, and water needs, McKinsey argued that the resource challenge can be met through a combination of expanding their supply and a step change in the way they are extracted, converted, and used. Resource productivity improvements that use existing technology would satisfy nearly 30% of demand in 2030. Fifteen areas, from more energy-efficient buildings to improved irrigation, could deliver 75% of the potential for higher resource productivity.
- Harvard Business Review listed the 10 sustainable business stories from 2013 that it considered too important to miss.
- The sixth annual release of Maplecroft’s Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas revealed that 31% of global economic output will be based in countries facing ‘high’ or ‘extreme risks’ from climate change by 2025 — a 50% increase on current levels and more than double since the company began researching the issue in 2008.
- The World We Made by environmentalist Jonathon Porritt argues that a sustainable future is not as far-fetched as we might sometimes believe it to be. Each chapter details a particular societal issue or trend and explains how it has been resolved or exploited from the point of view of 2050.
- A diverse group of global leaders is calling for a radical shake-up in politics and business to deliver progress on climate change, reduce economic inequality, improve corporate practices and address the chronic burden of disease. Now for the Long Term, published today by the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, is the product of a year long process of research and debate undertaken by a group of eminent leaders on the successes and failures in addressing global challenges over recent decades.