1. Align your indicators to SDG targets and not just SDG Goals Everyone knows that there are 17 Global Goals, but did you know that the UN has also defined 169 SDG targets that give us a clear guideline on each goal's impact and context? For example, goal 4, “Quality Education,”...
With 193 governments agreeing to deliver 17 goals tackling major world issues by 2030, change lies ahead for business, not only to rethink strategy and business behaviour to align with the goals, but also to assess and evidence their impact.
For investors, there are clear benefits to understanding how allocating capital to certain companies can contribute to achieving the SDGs. This is a process known as the SDG mapping of a (prospective) investee company's activities and, in the aggregate, SDG mapping across an ...
Conversely, the environmental and societal externalities of industrial food systems—including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, deforestation, destruction of biodiversity, waste, use of dangerous chemicals and societal harms—all hamper progress towards these goals [20]. While many of these externalities a...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals were set to be achieved by 2030—yet only 17 percent of SDG targets are on track. In Asia, research has shown that the region will only achieve the SDGs by 2062 if it carries on its present trajectory. Can AI play a meaningful role in accel...
How to Save Humanity in 17 Goals: reduce inequality within and among countries (SDG 10) Fabio Pulizzi: 00:09 Hello, this is How to Save Humanity in 17 Goals, a podcast brought to you by Nature Careers in partnership with Nature Water. I’m Fabio Pulizzi, chief editor at Nature Water....
Produced by Bloomberg Media Studios in partnership with Standard Chartered. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), once exclusively a focus for global development, are now increasingly seen as a mainstay for investment. According to the Business and Susta
Development goals are inspirational and incredibly ambitious. Among many things, they collectively urge the world to achieve rapid development, sustainable growth, fair distribution, climate action, gender equality and stronger institutions. If we could attain the SDGs, we would trul...
THE is unique in that they rank universities on how well they meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an effort to explore schools' environmental impacts. The SDG indicators include poverty levels, hunger, and inequality, so if equity and justice are important to yo...
There are many valuable ESG rating initiatives around the globe––from various players––and this is clearly a reason to be optimistic. Yet we are no longer naive. There is no equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) when it comes to ESG, and rating providers may be...