To support businesses pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), B Lab and the United Nations Global Compact along with content advisors developed theSDG Action Manager. This impact management solution enables businesses worldwide to set goals, track progress, and stay motivated on their action...
IoT devices on the edge could simply transmit local data and maintain their key characteristics of low power consumption and affordability. Although cloud computing is still a very important and powerful tool for IoT, edge computing has been
The central aim of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by 1) keeping global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and 2) to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1....
There's many other organizations that I've seen that. I really believe that it's one, obviously, you have to have that C-suite support and endorsement, but then pulling it through, all the way through the organization. We all know the power of employee engagement. This is what employees...
It is worth noting that expert knowledge can be utilized to some extent to obtain prior causal graph structures, depending on the specific task requirements. However, it is important to acknowledge that this approach undeniably returns the trajectory of “expert systems”. Within the SCM framework,...
Fig. 1. Having a say is important and creating a ‘message tree’ about having a say. As the sessions were child-led, the process was open and flexible with the researchers adaptable to each child’s favoured methods of communication. As the researchers introduced the first activity (poster...
UN Global Compact'CEO Lise Kingo is a leader on the Global Goals. Credit: UN Global Compact/Flickr We are not suggesting that only women can lead in pursuing the Global Goals, but we do believe they are an important driver of positive change. To achieve the goals by 2030, we need all...
Prevention of pregnancies at earlier stages of the reproductive life course (typically during adolescence) is one important mechanism through which family planning scholars theorize contraception can lower fertility and bring about a reduction in adverse maternal health outcomes (Rossiter et al.1985; World...
And it's really, really important. I’m always slightly hesitant to use the word resilience because it is thrown about the place. But resilience is absolutely key to how we’re able to do our jobs well, mainly because we are so at the mercy of the external environment that we find ...
Conducting genomic research in diverse populations has led to numerous advances in our understanding of human history, biology, and health disparities, in addition to discoveries of vital clinical significance. Conducting genomic research in diverse populations is also important in ensuring that the genomi...