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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a Global Soil Regime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
From the 1960s onwards, the global community became more aware of the phenomena of air and water pollution. More recently, the issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity, desertification, drought, and land degradation have become more prominent ...
Boer, Ben, Hannam, Ian
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Sustainable Decision‐Making in SMEs of the Textile Industry: Integrating Methodologies, Practices, and Barriers

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite its economic importance, the textile industry is one of the most polluting sectors. This study addresses the critical gap in understanding sustainable decision‐making in textile SMEs, where decision processes often remain informal and lack structured frameworks.
Israel Naranjo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling Up Climate Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In 2015, UNDP released its first infographic report that presented the breadth and depth of our support on climate change over the past two decades. That report emphasized successes and noted the opportunities that climate action presents for countries ...

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Evaluating the Influence of Board Characteristics on Environmental Decoupling: Evidence From Europe

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and environmental decoupling, that is, the misalignment between environmental disclosure and environmental performance. We analyze a sample of 728 European companies (3061 firm‐year observations) belonging to 18 industries and 20 different countries from 2017
Sabrina Pisano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making SDGs work for climate change hotspots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods have been widely documented. It is expected that climate and environmental change will hamper poverty reduction, or even exacerbate poverty in some or all of its dimensions. Changes in the biophysical
AghaKouchak, Amir   +14 more
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Are Artificial Intelligence and Circular Economy Activities ‘Run‐of‐the‐Mill’ in Integrated Reporting?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the nexus of artificial intelligence (AI) and circular economy (CE) activities in integrated reporting (IR) practices. The study used data on the top 100 most sustainable corporations provided by Corporate Knights, which analyses roughly 7000 public firms with annual revenue of at least US$ $1 billion and the Dow
Sarfraz Nazir   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stuttgart – a Livable City: The global Agenda 2030 at a local level Baseline study depicting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The United Nations adopted the Agenda 2030 in 2015. This was a basis for the transition to a world in which economic efficiency, ecological compatibility and social justice can be in accord with one another.
Bunk, Bettina   +3 more
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The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability Reporting: A Systematic Review of Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve sustainability reporting, particularly in relation to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Despite growing interest in the field, the integration of AI in sustainability remains underexplored, especially in terms of its impact on data accuracy ...
Fairouz Mustafa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Valuing the SDG Prize in Food and Agriculture: Unlocking Business Opportunities to Accelerate Sustainable and Inclusive Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Business opportunities in the implementation of the SDGs related to food could be worth over US$2.3 trillion annually for the private sector by 2030. Investment required to achieve these opportunities is approximately US$320 billion per year.These 14 ...

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