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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. Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals, over the past few years.

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How the digital wave is contributing to the rise of sustainable fisheries

GreenBiz

How the digital wave is contributing to the rise of sustainable fisheries. World fish consumption has almost doubled between the 1960s and now, and some estimates suggest fish contributes to at least 50 percent of total animal protein intake in developing nations. Digitalization. Myisha Majumder. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 02:03.

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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement. Centering employee engagement programs on regional or local concerns of employees is a strategy that both Akamai and Microsoft are nurturing alongside digital initiatives that help convey information about corporate-level priorities. "We Heather Clancy.

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university.

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Cummins India Kicks Off “REDEFINE 2024”, B-School Case Competition: Focusing on Digital Solutions for Sustainability

3BL Media

Themed “How Digital Solutions Enable Sustainability in Traditional Businesses?” , this year’s competition encourages participants to leverage digitalization to advance sustainability within traditional sectors. REDEFINE 2024 offers an exceptional platform for students to demonstrate how digitalization can drive meaningful change.”

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What I learned about water in 2020

GreenBiz

Last year around this time, I focused on digital technology solutions for water with this essay, " 2019: The Year Analog Solutions Died." I stand by this perspective, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated interest and adoption of digital technologies across the water value chain. What we need is a skunkworks mindset and strategy.

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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability

GreenBiz

Crowds, clouds, collaborators and competitors: Digital ecosystems are uniting disparate participants to target bigger and better outcomes. This is because digital ecosystems promote greater comprehension, better-coordinated responses and appropriately committed resources between a huge range of stakeholders.