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13 Oct 2020

Building supply chain resilience via the Sustainable Development Goals

Facing growing climate and health risks, companies are now increasingly aware of the need to tackle climate change and to ensure supply chain resilience. The recent global health crisis has accelerated this awareness and has acted as a magnifying glass for inequalities and vulnerabilities, putting the urgent need to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals ...
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19 Sep 2018

Sustainable Development Goals

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25 Jan 2018

Quantifying the Sustainable Development Goals

At the end of 2017, we published a blog on how companies are starting to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Sustainable Development Goals to create a shared common purpose with their stakeholders. If you’re working in corporate sustainability and reading this new blog, you’re likely already fully on board with the mission ...
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23 Nov 2016

Sustainable Development Goals: what’s the role for business?

Leading businesses are engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus their environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts. This helps ensure that they continue to play a part in building a more resilient world through economic growth and opportunity while also addressing social and environmental need.
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13 Oct 2023

New developments to the CSRD: What are the implications for non-financial disclosures?

The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) aims to improve the quality and consistency of sustainability reporting throughout the EU. In July, the EU Commission released an initial set of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) as a delegated act, after a public consultation phase on which EcoAct contributed its concerns and recommendations. Ahead of expanding ...
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15 Mar 2022

Stories from the field: Women and sustainable development

Mathilde Mignot, Head of Nature-Based Solutions Portfolio & Partnerships at EcoAct talks to Atos Chief Diversity Officer, Abbie Cowan about women and sustainable development, having impact and what what motivates her each day. Mathilde has been at EcoAct for 7 years, leading the portfolio and partnerships team and our sustainable development objectives.  Can you tell ...
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9 Nov 2018

Assessing the ROI of Sustainable Business in Philadelphia

On October 30th William Theisen, CEO for EcoAct North America, presented at Sustainable Brands New Metrics event in Philadelphia. Sustainable Brands, established in 2006,  is a global learning, collaboration and commerce community comprized of forward-thinking business and brand strategy, marketing, innovation and sustainability professionals. The organization recognizes that brands today have a unique role to ...
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5 Apr 2018

A sustainable maritime industry in a 2°C scenario – has the ship already sailed?

Shipping has long been a fundamental enabler of trade, although its important role may go unnoticed. Think about where the clothes you are wearing were made and how they arrived here. What about your phone? How did its components all come together to reach your hand right now? It’s very likely that shipping played a ...
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Afforestation Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR)
Forestry and Land Use India

Sundari – Mangrove restoration project 

   The Sundarbans are the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem, covering an area of 10,000 km² over West Bengal in India and Southern Bangladesh.​ The Indian Sundarbans are home to 4.5 million inhabitants, and the majority relies on mangroves for a living.  The aim of the Sundari project is to restore 4,000 hectares of urban degraded mangroves in the Indian Sundarbans by planting ...
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