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Another World-First From Leidos and NATS

3BL Media

Pairwise is a new innovative way of separating arriving aircraft, developed by Leidos UK and the air traffic service NATS. IA first went live in 2015 at London Heathrow and is now also in operation at Amsterdam Schiphol and Toronto Pearson airports.

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Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals

GreenBiz

Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Thanks to these advances, work on sustainable development has not stopped.

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Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point

GreenBiz

The amount of renewable diesel used in California tripled between 2015 to 2019 to 620 million gallons. Between 2015 and 2018, the consumption of renewable natural gas by natural gas fleets grew by 475 percent, and in 2019 in California, 80 percent of the natural gas used for transportation was renewable. million students in the U.S.,

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COP29 Ends with Target to Triple Climate Finance to $300 Billion per Year

ESG Today

Following two weeks of intensive negotiations, the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended with an agreement to triple climate change-related finance flows to developing nations to $300 billion annually over the next decade, and with significant progress towards the development of international carbon markets.

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Pope Francis called on all humanity to care for our common home

Corporate Knights

His 2015 encyclical Laudato Si , a passionate appeal for the care of our common home, marked a turning point in how faith, science and society could come together. I will not easily forget the moment he stood before the 2015 United Nations General Assembly, when the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Why Gen Z voices matter in making business sustainable

GreenBiz

Generation Z, those born between 1996 and 2015, are current consumers, future business leaders and the future of this world. From developing company-wide environmental policies to making smart climate-related investments, Gen Z wants to see actionable plans and measurable progress. . Isabel LoDuca. Mon, 10/19/2020 - 01:00.

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Countdown To 2030: Closing The Gaps On Lagging SDGs

3BL Media

2025 marks just five years until 2030, the target for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For context, the SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals set by the UN General Assembly in 2015 after considerable consultation with NGOs, companies and other stakeholders. Originally published in Forbes.