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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” For 2002, it’s King of the Castle.”. Is it the Ideal Corporate Citizen?

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Should corporations be activists?

Corporate Knights

Hawn and Aharon Mohliver, a strategy and entrepreneurship professor at London Business School, tracked shareholder responses to American company rankings on the annual corporate equality index (a measure of social responsibility) between 2002 and 2018. How do we propel companies beyond “islands of sustainability”?

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As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

Corporate Knights

An undergraduate course on “sustainability as a strategic lever for companies” explores corporate practices (good and bad) that play out in global circumstances of poverty, social inequality, resource scarcity and climate change. Some academics successfully pivoted years ago. How fantastic is that?”.

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Soil Health Institute Engages Students From Historically Black Colleges and Universities To Promote Greater Equity in Sustainable Agriculture Through Internship Program

3BL Media

Providing access and education to students enrolled in HBCUs to help them excel in their careers is vital to successfully expand regenerative practices and ultimately mitigate climate change.”. Mr. Harden was awarded a full academic scholarship from USDA and plans to become an agricultural economist. To learn more about the U.S.

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Jeffrey Sachs Awarded 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for Leading Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development Network

The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity. An example of his pioneering innovative transdisciplinary approach to these issues can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006.

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Copy of SDSN at the 2023 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF)

Sustainable Development Network

Key stakeholders, including policymakers, government officials, journalists, academics, students, and members of civil society need to integrate innovative approaches to collecting and disseminating data to inform decision-making and effectively push Agenda 2030 forward. The European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN; www.sd-network.eu

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Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice

EJOLT

It is also used for secondary and university education and for doctoral theses and articles and academic books. The EJAtlas, which is the result of academic-activist collaboration, is popular with environmental justice organizations in many parts of the world. So, which actors could play a key role? All these cases are in the EJAtlas.