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Business

A Call to Action for Businesses to Build a Better World

byImpakter Editorial Board

November 14, 2019

The new year will bring a new online tool to unleash the collective power of the Certified B Corporation community ...

Men

Shape Your Future With Nikhil Seth

byShape Your Future - Editorial Board

October 1, 2019

Having began in 1993, Nikhil Seth's career with the United Nations involved a number of positions, responsibilities and of course, ...

Environment

CLIMATE . CHANGE – Episode 6 – With Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at Columbia University & UN advisor

byPositive Solutions - Julie Benasra - Content Director & Thierry Daher - Founder & Managing Director

March 27, 2019

In Episode 6 and final chapter of the short film series "Climate . Change", Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's ...

Health

We Need To Talk About Toilets

byKian Bakhtiari - Founder of The People

December 19, 2018

Toilets are something we seldom think about, unless we’re in desperate need of one. It may sound funny, but toilets ...

United Nations

Can Resilience Go Digital?

byDr. Giriraj Amarnath

December 12, 2018

Disasters typically hit hardest at the most vulnerable populations among us. Such people often have the poorest access to information ...

SDG Series

Forests: Our Hope for Reducing Climate Change

byMario Boccucci - Head of the UN-REDD Programme Secretariat

October 17, 2018

If you’ve seen recent headlines, you would think we are losing our first line of defence against climate change. According ...

GFAR Series

The International Agri-Food Network: Creating Opportunities for Farmers in Food Policy

byDonald Moore - Executive Director of Global Dairy Platform

October 2, 2018

This article is part of our Editorial Series called "GFAR impakters". This is done in partnership with GFAR - The Global ...

SDG Series

Why Water holds the key to sustainable development

byDr. Elizabeth Lockwood - CBM Representative at the United Nations

August 6, 2018

Sustainable development is not possible without ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. As Sustainable ...

Impact

Beyond financing: getting private sector support for sustainable development right

byKazuki Kitaoka - Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAO

July 24, 2018

SERIES TITLE: Pipe dream or achievable vision: How can we deliver on the 2030 Agenda? The 2030 Agenda foresees a bright ...

SDG Series

Spreading the seeds of sustainable bioenergy

byDr. Maria Michela Morese - Executive Secretary of the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP)

June 21, 2018

The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has produced a set of twenty-four indicators for the assessment and monitoring of bioenergy sustainability ...