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Healing People and Planet: New Impact Report Outlines How Medtronic Is Shaping the Future of Health

3BL Media

Established in collaboration with Virtua Health, a 15,000-person academic health system, Healthy Neighbor extends access to integrated clinical and social care for hypertension and diabetes management within Camden, New Jersey. Reduced operational waste by 19% and water use intensity by 28% since FY20.

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Sofidel: Building a Better Future

3BL Media

In particular, Sofidel's commitment is aimed at helping students, teachers, school administrators and academics to create more innovative, open and skills-based training, capable of constituting a real development factor for the entire district. This leads to fewer kilometers traveled by means of transport and a reduction in CO emissions 2.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic.

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Subnational Governments and Private Business step up for Climate Action

Sustainable Development Network

Despite hopeful economic signals in renewable technology markets, climate media outlets have been clear on the simple fact that the national climate commitments made to date under the Paris Agreement simply don’t add up to meet the emissions cuts necessary to keep global temperatures under 1.5C.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

The idea of net zero gained attention at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, with the goal for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , many countries made binding commitments to reduce their country’s emissions in line with these limits. But progress has to start now.

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Launch of SDSN Kazakhstan 

Sustainable Development Network

The event was welcomed by contributions from academics and research institutes through roundtable discussions with members from SDSN Kazakhstan. A representative of G-Global commented on the drinking water issues by providing an example of green rural areas such as Arnasai, StopMusor (Stop of Waste), and World Clean-Up Day.

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From Net Zero to Net Positive

Sustainable Round Table

Today, all around the world, thousands of sustainability-focused private sector professionals, public servants and academics are grappling with the deep challenge provided by the UN IPCC Sixth Assessment report “Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis” released in August. Code Red for Humanity”. Julia graduated with a B.S.