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Person bending over to pick up crops in a rice field
Sowing the seeds for a just transition
… Increased investment in the food and agriculture sector is central to achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the goals on gender equality, reduced inequalities and … just transition and corporate sustainability by considering investee business activities along supply chains from a social and environmental …
Article, 05 May 2023
A handful of seedlings
Bringing business into the conversation on sustainable development
… agenda. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced by business and investors as they start to look at delivering positive … Shell Foundation. He is a partner in Sumerian Partners, which manages investment capital to deliver measurable and lasting social impact in … are contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The next blog looks at the rise of green bonds  – investments …
News, 18 November 2019
A beautiful coastline but, in the foreground, a woman is sorting a huge pile of plastic bottles
Wanted: corporate global citizens to deliver the SDGs
… Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a global issue; all the world’s citizens need to play their … that exist within the complex ecosystem that binds us. For business leaders, that failure can lead to anything from poor … those actors work – across global value chains; influencing through investment, communications and partnerships; seeking to create inclusive …
Insight, 24 January 2020
Wind turbines on the top of a hill
Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?
Insight, 21 January 2020
Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Business as usual – or business with purpose?
… While the debate on business’ social and environmental impacts (both positive and negative) … Unilever to TATA, are embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and producing plans (PDF)  and frameworks to show how their core … also looking to capture and share learning on how to attract private investment into environmental conservation measures such as marine …
Insight, 17 April 2019
A row of women sitting with baskets of freshly picked tea leaves
We need more than business as usual, to leave no one behind
… these impacts, it is perilous for them to ignore these risks. The SDGs: a tool to manage risks Examining the sustainability impacts of their business processes and practices (including along their value chains) … expectations to improve sustainability often requires recalibrating business models and strategies. The  Centre for Responsible Business ' …
Insight, 10 January 2020
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… SDG 15 to protect life on land must be at the heart of delivering the SDGs for poor people .  This natural capital is fast being decimated … and ministry of finance, which are now beginning to see the business case for investing in natural capital. In South Africa, the … pollution to protect the coast and marine environment. This investment was financed by Durban's local government but private …
Insight, 17 July 2017
Flags outside the Palais des Nations, Geneva
Rethinking investment treaties and dispute settlement in the light of sustainable development
… including the Paris Agreement. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have charted a new bold sustainable development agenda that … plan of action underpinning the SDGs recognises the role of private investment in strategies to realise the goals. This raises questions … investments in response to local development agendas, and ensure that business activity is aligned with the SDGs and contributes to achieving …
Project, 08 June 2020
Close-up image of cotton growing
Q&A: Ready for impact?
… The last 18 months have seen a wave of business and investors seeking to redefine their raison d'être – where … ‘purposewash’ (the new greenwash). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the potential to support this renewed purpose, showing … with huge potential – if they can get the right mix of support and investment. CW: I would also highlight that larger corporates are …
Article, 07 November 2019
A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
SDGs 'not just for overseas'
…  that the government's position on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) threatened the universal scope of the goals. Tom Bigg , IIED head … – including tax havens and shadow banking  International trade and investment agreements (such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment … progress. IIED would like to see reporting from governments and big business made part of the agenda. People must be able to see that the …
News, 15 December 2014