- Wanner, Alice. "Seeking Leadership for a Sustainable Future".
June 2021.
https://www.researchgate.net/...
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 national levels set the policies, standards, reporting, and monitoring requirements to determine the indicators. This paper argues that organizational advantages of higher levels combined with the implementation capabilities of lower levels through commonly accepted indicators and monitoring lead to a better community. However, it takes local leadership to drive development and take planning and policy to a new level for communities to become truly sustainable.Posted on 04/07/24
- Enel Innovability Team. "Enel Innovation and Crowdsourcing – Open Innovability".
Enel.
Accessed June 27, 2024.
https://openinnovability.enel.com/...
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 development benefits and all stakeholders must collaborate across the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this reason, Enel poses challenges linked to SDGs that need solutions and is calling for ideas. Openinnovability.com is an open crowdsourcing platform provided by Enel that is open to everyone for solutions focusing on innovation and sustainability. Led by the Enel Innovability Team, the platform enables dialog between the contributors and stakeholders.Posted on 27/06/24
- European Commission. "EU Biodiversity Strategy Actions Tracker".
European Commission.
Accessed
https://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/...
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 interest groups have spoken out against the EU Nature Restoration Law. With slander, deception, and misleading statements, they defend the “business-as-usual” approach to agriculture, forestry, and land use. They, industry lobby groups, and their political allies argue against the interests of the population and small farmers, forest owners, and businesses that have an economic interest in restoring nature and protecting their living space, nature, and the environment.Posted on 26/06/24
- GLOBAÏA. "Planetary Terminology".
GLOBAÏA.
Accessed June 24, 2024.
https://globaia.org/...
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 about planetary phenomena, cultural development, and concepts of planetary sustainability must be defined, clarified, and agreed. Life is a planetary phenomenon and arguably the most interesting phenomenon observed on planetary surfaces. The concept of planetary sustainability has to be placed in the alarming context of such planetary phenomena as global warming and understood as sustainable development that considers the Earth as a planet and its planetary boundaries.Posted on 25/06/24
- Joe MacDonald. "The Intricacies of Data Center Development".
The Sustainable Architect.
Accessed June 24, 2024.
https://www.linkedin.com/...
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. Strategic insights and awareness of these factors are essential to the long-term success of data centers and the benefit of all socioeconomic stakeholders. By understanding and considering these factors, data center operators can ensure the social, ecological, and economic success and sustainability of their facilities, thus supporting the continued growth and development of the digital economy and providing solutions, buildings and infrastructures of the future.Posted on 24/06/24
- Beatrice Crona, Giorgio Parlato, Steven Lade, Ingo Fetzer, Victor Maus. "Going beyond carbon: An “Earth System Impact” Score to Better Capture Corporate and Investment Impacts on the Earth System".
Journal of Cleaner Production.
January 12, 2023.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
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 timeframes. While these nature-related impacts are essential to consider and capture because they have local impacts on a range of ecosystem functions on which companies and economies depend, they also fundamentally affect our ability to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate. Furthermore, climate, land and water interact and affect each other in various ways, such that climate change can be exacerbated by degraded ecosystems, which in turn are dependent on water.Posted on 21/06/24
- Haaga-Helia. "True (but Requires Context): Finland Faces the Highest Costs under EU’s Environmental Restoration Law Relative to its Economy".
EUFACTCHECK.
June 06, 2024.
https://eufactcheck.eu/...
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, Finland’s Minister for Climate and Environment and representative of the center-right National Coalition party, oppose the NRL because of its "excessive costs", they ignore its exponential benefits for each country's gross domestic product (GDP). Although Mykkänen's claim that the cost to Finland is the highest in the EU relative to the size of its economy is correct, his argument ignores the 10-fold benefit of nature restoration and the law to Finnish GDP.Posted on 18/06/24
- Nikolaus J. Kurmayer. "Nature Restoration: Austrian Conservatives Charge Gewessler for Abuse of Office".
Euractiv.
https://www.euractiv.com/...
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 landscapes. The conservative ÖVP government partner promptly filed criminal charges against her for abuse of office and a complaint with the European Court of Justice for an "unlawful" vote. According to the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, she was not legally empowered to vote in favor of the nature restoration law. With 82% of the population in favor of nature restoration measures, her defiant action is likely meeting with approval by most Austrians of all parties.Posted on 17/06/24
- Beatrice Crona, Carl Folke, Victor Galaz. "The Anthropocene Reality of Financial Risk".
One Earth.
Accessed June 16, 2024.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
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 financial sector while failing to account for investment externalities that aggravate climate and other environmental changes and set the sustainable finance initiatives off course. This analysis of environmental, social, and governance ratings and estimates of global green investments shows the Anthropocene reality of financial risk and what this means for the ability of society at large, and finance in particular, to deliver on sustainability ambitions and global goals.Posted on 16/06/24
- Jan Anton van Zanten, Joop Huij. "ESG to SDG: Do Sustainable Investing Ratings Align with the Sustainability Preferences of Investors, Regulators, and Scientists?".
Social Science Research Network.
February 29, 2024.
https://papers.ssrn.com/...
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 measure their sustainability performance. SDG scores capture investors’ revealed social, economic and environmental sustainability preferences, align with the EU taxonomy regulation, and support climate change mitigation, unlike ESG ratings. Whereas the ESG ratings have low construct validity, SDG ratings perform well in measuring companies’ positive and negative impacts on the well-being of people and the Earth and their contribution to sustainable development.Posted on 14/06/24
- Boldizsár Megyesi, Amir Gholipour, Federico Cuomo, Eriona Canga, Alexandra Tsatsou, Violeta Zihlmann, Ranka Junge, Dragan Milosevic, Rocío Pineda-Martos. "Perceptions of Stakeholders on Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Planning: A Thematic Analysis in Six European Cities".
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
Accessed June 12, 2024.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
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 associated with NBS, notably fostering cooperation within communities. This cooperation manifested at different levels, encompassing empowerment, collaborative decision-making, cooperation, consultation, and information sharing. Additionally, knowledge sharing emerged as a valuable advantage, facilitating the exchange of scientific and practical experiences related to NBS implementation, challenges, and applications among urban planners, users of urban spaces, and researchers.Posted on 13/06/24
- N.U. Blum, M. Haupt, C.R. Bening. "Why ‘Circular’ Doesn’t Always Mean ‘Sustainable’".
Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
https://doi.org/...
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 sustainability (EconSus) is positive. Environmental sustainability (EnvSus) develops positively as the environment suffers less through product systems, using life cycle assessment (LCA) for assessing their life-cycle environmental impacts. Social sustainability (SocSus) develops positively if social conditions improve for all people, which is tricky to measure. Where circularity space and sustainability space overlap, a Sustainable Circular Economy (SCE) occurs.Posted on 12/06/24
- Dana Nuccitelli. "Fighting Climate Change: Cheaper than ‘Business as Usual’ and Better for the Economy".
Yale Climate Connections.
Accessed June 10, 2024.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/...
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 the costs of the solutions and rarely if ever cite the costs or mention the alternative costs of continuing to extract and burn fossil fuels to meet society’s energy needs. Prices of green technology solutions are falling rapidly, making many already cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives and more than pay for themselves over time. Failing to curb global warming has started bringing more frequent climate catastrophes with crushing economic and humanitarian costs.Posted on 11/06/24
- Our World in Data team. "Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization and Foster Innovation".
Our World in Data.
Accessed June 07, 2024.
https://ourworldindata.org/...
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 communication technologies. Innovation in infrastructure, industry and the technologies needed for the transition are the main drivers of economic growth and development. Investment in scientific research, innovation and technologies promotes SDG-aligned infrastructures key to solving and meeting the resulting social, economic and environmental challenges, such as CO₂ and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, improving infrastructure energy efficiency, and creating new jobs.Posted on 07/06/24
- Radim Lenort, Pavel Wicher, František Zapletal. "On Influencing Factors for Sustainable Development Goal Prioritisation in the Automotive Industry".
Journal of Cleaner Production.
February 10, 2023.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
Sustainability has become a key corporate strategy inspiring companies to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper identifies the SDG priorities in the automotive industry worldwide, from the point of view of the geographic, cultural, social, and economic specifics of the countries in which the companies operate. SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, and 13 are the most preferred SDGs in the automotive industry and the SDGs adopted by at least 66% of companies examined. The automotive industry is a good subject of analysis because it is a pillar of the global economy and a main driver of macroeconomic growth, stability, and technological prosperity. However, the analysis confirms that SDG priorities are highly dependent on the continent and country’s basic economic performance.Posted on 06/06/24