The ongoing effects of global warming, biodiversity loss, and pollution pose a serious risk to the enjoyment of fundamental human rights, including the right to life, health, and private and family life.  The impacts of global warming have led to the recognition of a human rights-based approach to addressing climate ch ...

Sustainable development of communities requires leadership and relies on the involvement and participation of stakeholders in the future sustainability of communities.  Development is implemented at the local level by communities and their stakeholders, whether residents or visitors.  Organizations at international and ...

Innovation can only be meaningful if focused on sustainability.  Enel recognizes that innovation and sustainability are inextricably linked and that innovation is the key to sustainable success – Enel calls this “innovability”. Society can only be sustainable by generating measurable long-term social and environmental ...

In the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, the EU and its Member States have committed to implement more than 100 measures by 2030, including the EU Nature Restoration Plan to protect and restore at least 30% of the degraded and carbon-rich ecosystems by law.  In Austria as in most EU countries, conservative parties and ...

Human societies and biodiversity on Earth are under threat because human resource consumption is exceeding or threatening the physical and ecological boundaries of our planet.  To discuss and address the challenges, find solutions, and take urgent measures to tackle climate change, the terminology used in discussions a ...

Data centers house the critical servers, storage, and networking equipment that keep data flowing smoothly in local communities and around the world.  The development and operation of data centres require thorough assessment and consideration of land valuation, site analysis, power consumption and consumption capacity. ...

Four interactions – changes in climate affecting water runoff; changes in climate affecting vegetation cover; changes in vegetation cover affecting climate; and changes in vegetation cover affecting water runoff – are deemed of utmost importance for understanding the impact on the Earth system on policy-relevant timefr ...

The European Nature Restoration Law (NRL) establishes rules and procedures for the restoration and conservation of natural resources and ecosystems to compensate or offset damage to natural resources and promote sustainable development.  While center-right, far-right and conservative politicians such as Kai Mykkänen, F ...

The Austrian Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) voted in defiance of the coalition partner to pass the EU’s Nature Restoration Law, thereby pushing it through by a narrow majority.  She decided that it was her duty to approve this central pillar of the EU’s efforts to reverse the major degradation of its l ...

Financial services are critical for corporate activities to regenerate and promote biosphere resilience as a key strategy to confront the new risk landscape and are essential to the transformation needed for a sustainable future. Current financial risk frameworks focus mainly on financial materiality and risks to the f ...

ESG and SDG cannot be used interchangeably to identify the sustainability of companies and their contribution to social development and the planet, although they are complementary.  Where sustainable investors aim to invest in companies that contribute to sustainable development, there is disagreement on how best to me ...

Numerous social and ecological benefits are associated with nature-based solutions (NBS).  This study gathered the views of stakeholders engaged in urban planning regarding the importance of nature-based solutions (NBS).  The findings revealed that stakeholders perceive numerous social and ecological advantages associa ...

Material circularity (MC) develops positively when a material is circulated through reuse, refurbishment, remanufacture, or recycling at its highest quality, it usually being measured through material flow analysis (MFA).  When economic value is generated as commonly measured through life cycle costing (LCC), economic ...

The often-repeated and seldom-challenged view that climate change solutions are expensive and uneconomical has long thwarted public support for even the most common-sense measures.  While economics research documents far greater costs of climate change damages, those opposing actions to confront climate change point to ...

SDG 9 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets out eight targets and twelve indicators used to monitor the achievement of the goals. With more than half of the world's population living in cities, mass transport, renewable energy and carbon reduction call for solutions and new industries and information and ...