Two recent research documents provide a substantial basis for assessing how the draft policy shapes up and identifying where it falls down.
Making connections between consumer choices, marketing approaches and environmental impacts matters for our shared future. Clothes in a bin in Costa Blanca, Spain.
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Resources from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization can help marketing programs embed sustainability concerns into marketing education.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals were designed to address extreme poverty, social inequality, the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity.
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Not all types of ground are the same and understanding how varied ground types react to environmental stresses is key to achieving true sustainability.
Crowds gather at the Saturday market in Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2019. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing three times faster than the global average.
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Environmental policymakers and scholars must listen to sub-Saharan Africans’ voices and recognize the importance of population for achieving sustainable development goals.
Cities should be planned around existing natural resources.
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Stephen Appiah Takyi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Owusu Amponsah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
The inability of city authorities to enforce land-use regulations has allowed people to carry out ecologically unfriendly activities along the water bodies.
De Montfort University students volunteering at Leicester Nirvana Football Club to promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
Commonly used schemes such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, B Corp certifications and the Global Reporting Initiative fail to hold businesses accountable on their green targets.
Halfway through the Sustainable Development Goals timeline, the world is not on track to meet the target of ending malnutrition by 2030.
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As global acute food insecurity increases, severe wasting — which already affects 13.6 million children — is expected to rise with it. Treating wasting requires specialized nutrition and medical care.
Universities across Africa can drive prosperity through innovation.
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Our research shows the world is not on track to achieve any of the Sustainable Development Goals. But with decisive action, we can still achieve a fairer, more sustainable and prosperous future.
Many colonias along the Texas-Mexico border still lack basic infrastructure, including running water.
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After almost half a century, the United Nations has waded back into the murky world of water policy. But one of the ideas following this year’s international meeting has been shot down.
Dharavi slum in India. Billions of people live in terrible conditions in the world’s cities.
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The strategy’s core mission should be to ensure everyone in Australia has adequate housing. That requires 950,000 social and affordable rental dwellings to be built by 2041, dwarfing current targets.
To achieve a sustainable future that benefits Canadians, a coordinated response from households, businesses and the government is essential.
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In the fact of economic uncertainty, one question remains: Is it worth investing in a more sustainable Canada, or will it become just another economic burden?
Entrepreneurship flourishes when individuals in a society possess higher levels of well-being, adaptability, self-control and sociability.
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