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Empowering and hopeful, this vividly illustrated guide to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals shows young readers how they can participate in making the world a better place-for themselves and for others. In 2015, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations Member States as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Each goal addresses a specific aspect of global challenges and aims to promote social, economic, and environmental sustainability. This book explains each of these goals through compelling illustrations paired with brief descriptions that will spark curiosity and conversation about creating a sustainable and inclusive world. Vibrant images from a wide array of cultures and backgrounds will inspire young people to reflect on important issues, such as poverty and climate change, access to healthcare and education, equality and economic stability. While these are big goals, this book encourages even the smallest readers to embrace the notion that they, too, can be champions for a better, more sustainable future. 19
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Increasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices and environmental protections. But the reality is that their suppliers—especially those at low levels of the chain—often violate sustainability standards, exposing MNCs to serious financial and social risks. To explore this problem—and identify solutions—the authors studied the supply networks of three MNCs deemed to be sustainability leaders. These companies engage in behaviors that are worth emulating; for example, they have established long-term sustainability goals, and they try to cascade good practices all the way down to lower-tier suppliers, using a combination of direct, indirect, industrywide, and global strategies. But all MNCs have more work to do to develop sustainable supply networks. They must emphasize social and environmental responsibility, along with economic considerations, at every level of the supply chain. They must give their procurement officers better training and incentives to pursue supplier sustainability. And to encourage widespread dissemination of best practices, they need more direct contact with the procurement people at their first-tier suppliers.
Ecosystem services are defined as benefits that humans obtain from ecosystem functions, or as direct and indirect contributions from ecosystems to human well-being. Urban ecosystems are those where the built infrastructure covers a large proportion of the land surface, or those in which people live at high densities. They include all ‘green and blue spaces’ in urban areas, including parks, cemeteries, yards and gardens, urban allotments, urban forests, wetlands, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Urban ecosystems are especially important in providing services with direct impact on health and security such as air purification, noise reduction, urban cooling, and runoff mitigation. Which ecosystem services in a given city are most relevant varies greatly depending on the environmental and socio-economic characteristics of each site. For example, natural barriers to buffer environmental extremes are critical for cities located in or close to coastal areas (e.g. New Orleans); air quality regulation can be of significance in cities severely polluted due for instance to topography of heat inversions (e.g. Santiago de Chile), but may be of secondary importance in cities where atmospheric pollution is favoured by topography, as well as policy (e.g. Helsinki). Similarly, while urban green areas will generally play a secondary role in tourism, emblematic city parks can be an important part of the portfolio of attractions valued by city tourists (e.g. the Central Park in New York). THE ABC FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES UNEP / UN HABITAT / FIDIC / GI-REC Based on Gómez-Baggethuna E. and Bartonc David, Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning, in Ecological Economics Graphic: metrovancouver.org
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The disappearance of the “consumer” in the new productive models drives a growing social space of productive networks and egalitarian oriented to abundance.
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Identification of Eligible Countries The CDP reviews the list of LDCs and makes recommendations for inclusion in and graduation from the category every three years These recommendations are not exclusively based on the criteria scores, complementary country-specific information (DESA impact assessment, UNCTAD vulnerability profile) and the views of the government are also taken […]
This case book provides examples of multi-stakeholder partnerships that aim to create sustainable enterprises for both the for-profit sectors and for individuals who live in conditions of poverty. Ideal for teaching, after a brief introduction to the case method, the cases are presented as descriptions with no comments or criticisms. The cases are arranged…
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With the current climate and economic crises, education for sustainability has never been more critical. This timely and essential book encourages readers to rethink our current values systems and to interrogate common assumptions about our world. Written for all educators with an interest in sustainability, chapters address several possible future scenarios for our planet, allowing readers to make more educated choices about sustainability and to transfer this knowledge to students within the classroom. Each chapter focuses on a specific Sustainable Development Goal. Beginning with a brief historical and theoretical introduction to contextualise the goal, chapters then showcase the practical activities, case studies and exemplars that teachers can adopt when teaching. Topics explored include, but are not limited to: Poverty Renewable energy Climate change Peace and justice Human rights Access to education This book is an essential classroom resource for any teacher or student teacher wishing to promote the Sustainable Development Goals and to teach for a better and brighter future. 102 Tables, black and white; 22 Line drawings, color; 54 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, color; 15 Halftones, black and white; 35 Illustrations, color; 69 Illustrations, black and white
Woonschip VC is an actual cargo ship that was converted into a sailing houseboat. The brief was very specific: the owners wanted space, sustainability, and high quality of living. They wanted the finished product to be a house where they can actually live comfortably.
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