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Green building labels need a renovation

Corporate Knights

It was a revelation reminiscent of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions reduction scandal. In North America, academics and environmentalists have criticized LEED’s approach because developers could game it out, running up their score by adding cosmetic features (e.g., bike parking) that don’t really improve a building’s carbon footprint.

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NRG Energy 2021 Sustainability Report: A Business Structure for Sustainability Success

3BL Media

Launched in 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global set of goals, targets, and indicators developed by the United Nations to guide countries, communities, and organizations in their work to create a sustainable world by 2030. Sustainable Development Goals. Company Actions. GHG goals are science-based and 1.5

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Reflecting on 10 Years of SDSN

Sustainable Development Network

We need to engage the academic and scientific community and tap into worldwide technological know‐how in the private sector and civil society, in order to develop and implement practical solutions.” Starting in 2013 and finishing in 2015, the teams developed roadmaps for deep decarbonization in their respective countries.

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Dow Leaders Honored for STEM Excellence With 2024 HENAAC and Luminary Awards

3BL Media

By 2015, he became the Global R&D Director for Dow Industrial Solutions, supporting diverse technologies in key market segments like Oil and Gas, Life Sciences, and Electronics.

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SDSN at the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week

Sustainable Development Network

The dialogue explored the vision and challenges for countries to achieve decarbonization by 2050. In the LAC region, Costa Rica and Chile are committed to this goal, along with other countries such as Colombia, currently exploring different pathways towards deep decarbonization.

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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. Sachs was also in charge of the UN Millennium Village Project (MVP), which was implemented from 2006-2015 after the UN General Assembly adopted the key recommendations of the Millennium Project at a special session in September 2005.

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Special Symposium on Cities Facing Climate Change and Pursuing Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Network

This high-level 2-day event, convened by the Pontifical Academy with SDSN at the Vatican in Rome, was a unique opportunity to showcase the modern challenges facing cities and to demonstrate the bold leadership of cities and local governments in achieving sustainable development, encouraging national governments to follow suit in September 2015.