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Celebrating the International Day of Education - How DP World Is Helping Prepare the Next Generation

3BL Media

In Ecuador, DP World has partnered with ESPOL University to deliver a port-focused technical qualification through the Academic Unit for Technical and Technological Training (AUFTT) in Posorja. Recognizing Academic Excellence Celebrating student success is just as important as creating opportunities.

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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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The rise of social metrics in ESG reporting

GreenBiz

Guiding Principles in 2016, included multiple data points at the macro level, perhaps to make up for sparse company-specific data. For example, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business looked at more than 1,000 academic studies published between 2015 and 2020 on the correlation between financial and ESG performance.

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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts

GreenBiz

magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. The Climate Change Directorate expects this will help the country transition to new reporting procedures under the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework.

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Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition

GreenBiz

This model, known as the circular economy, could help tackle the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution. Alternatively, an economic system based on the recirculation of resources and the regeneration of natural systems offers a way forward that can work in the long term.

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COP22 Low-Emissions Solutions Conference will bring together cities, government, academics and business to scale up climate solutions

Sustainable Development Network

The parties formalized their collaboration on the conference by signing a Memorandum of Understanding today at the Climate Action 2016 summit in Washington DC. The conference will support all signatories to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Jeffrey Cheah Foundation’s $10 Million Gift Launches the “Jeffrey D. Sachs Center on Sustainable Development” in Kuala Lumpur

Sustainable Development Network

April 11th, 2016 – Today, the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Association announced a strategic collaboration on sustainable development as the United Nations enters the first year of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Jeffrey D.