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Is the Implementation of Cocoa Companies' Forest Policies on Track to Effectively and Equitably Address Deforestation in West Africa?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tropical forests play a crucial role in achieving the sustainable development goals by contributing to climate stability, conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods. However, forests are disappearing due to agricultural expansion. In West Africa, cocoa production is a major driver of deforestation.
Thomas Addoah, Joss Lyons‐White, Federico Cammelli, Keessy Maria‐Prisca Kouakou, Sophia Carodenuto, William J. Thompson, Cécile Renier, Rachael D. Garrett   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean [PDF]

, 2013
Oceans regulate our climate, provide us with natural resources such as food, materials, substances, and energy and are essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities.
Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike, Neumann, Barbara, Rickels, Wilfried, Schmidt, Jörn, van Doorn, Erik, Visbeck, Martin   +5 more
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Space Economy and Sustainability: A Systematic Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The space economy is booming thanks to the increasing investment of government agencies, private companies, and venture capitalists. From the beginning of the New Space era, the array of actors involved in the development of technologies for extra‐terrestrial activities has increased, as well as the downstream applications that foster ...
Marianna Valente, Federico Caviggioli, Lara Agostini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information and Communications Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: State-of-the-Art, Needs and Perspectives [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the 2030 Development Agenda, which has included 92 paragraphs, and the Paragraph 91 defined 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. The goal of this paper is to discover the correlations among SDGs and information and communications technologies (ICTs).
arxiv  

Operationalizing Indivisibility—Synergies and Trade‐Offs in Six Swedish Municipalities’ Work With the 2030 Agenda

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Operationalizing the indivisibility and integrated nature of the UN 2030 Agenda poses a complex governance challenge. Although research has advanced our understanding of SDG localization and interlinkages, important gaps remain. In this paper, we depart from these two strands of literature by asking how synergies and trade‐offs manifest in ...
Sara Gottenhuber, Henrik Carlsen, Björn‐Ola Linnér, Nina Weitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ConDiSR: Contrastive Disentanglement and Style Regularization for Single Domain Generalization [PDF]

arXiv
Medical data often exhibits distribution shifts, which cause test-time performance degradation for deep learning models trained using standard supervised learning pipelines. This challenge is addressed in the field of Domain Generalization (DG) with the sub-field of Single Domain Generalization (SDG) being specifically interesting due to the privacy ...
arxiv  

Possible Integration of Soil Information into Land Degradation Analysis for the United Nations (UN) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Concept: A Case Study of the Contiguous United States of America (USA)

Soil Systems
Soil makes important contributions to the United Nations (UN) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) concept and targets; however, currently, soil is not integrated into measurable information (e.g., indicators, metrics) to monitor land degradation (LD ...
E. Mikhailova, H. Zurqani, Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, C. Post, M. Schlautman, George B. Shepherd   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Role for Cities in the EU Green Deal? Analysis of Policy Framework, Interlinkages and Contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban environments are at the forefront of the European Union (EU) climate ambitions as envisaged by the European Green Deal (EGD). Cities are also central to delivering most of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, EU cities face severe implementation challenges in operationalising the EGD and SDGs. This research aims
Matteo Trane, Steve Borchardt, Luisa Marelli, Alice Siragusa, Riccardo Pollo, Patrizia Lombardi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disaggregating Land Degradation Types for United Nations (UN) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Analysis Using the State of Ohio (USA) as an Example

Earth
The United Nations (UN) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) evaluation stresses the need to account for different types of land degradation (LD) as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15: Life on Land) and UN Convention to Combat ...
E. Mikhailova, H. Zurqani, Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, C. Post, M. Schlautman, Camryn E. Brown   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Industrial Development, Poverty Reduction, and Inequality: A Robustness Test Using Nighttime Lights in Vietnam

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the interplay between sectoral growth compositions, initial inequality, and poverty reduction in Vietnam during the 2000s, utilizing disaggregated provincial‐level data. The analysis focuses on the differential impacts of industrial and agricultural sector growth on poverty alleviation while also assessing the moderating ...
Takahiro Yamada, Christian S. Otchia
wiley   +1 more source