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This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. Disputing divestment. We cannot just divest from fossil fuels; we need a fair and just transition to the net zero economy.”.
Most of these cases can be taught within multiple business disciplines such as leadership, strategic management, supplychains and marketing, to name a few — making them useful tools not only for emerging entrepreneurs themselves, but for the educators who are training them. housing market typically works.
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Potential users of our data will ask us for 10 years’ history, but the SDGs were only created in 2015,” he observed. “To Scores and screening tools can oversimplify when, in reality, every company, supplychain, asset class and industry is complicated. Impact through stewardship. Understanding these nuances is important.
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