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UN Global Compact Network UK SDG Showcase

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In recent years, increased expectations from investors, regulators, employees, and customers have put significant pressure on companies to increase their sustainability efforts. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not just another sustainability framework, but the only universally agreed blueprint to turn meaningful ambition into transformational change. However, businesses report difficulties in integrating the SDGs into their core strategies and in understanding, reporting, and managing their impact on the Goals.
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Sustainable Business Practices; Global Partnerships, Europe

Hydropower in the European Union: state-of-the art, future opportunities and main issues within the current social, energy, geopolitical, and climate situation

Elsevier,

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy, Vol. ,  2024, Pages 281-302

This chapter supports the UN SDGs by addressing the sustainable deployment of hydropower within the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus, promoting SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 13 (Climate Action), and SDG 15 (Life on Land) by exploring environmental impacts, conflicts, and strategies for sustainable development in the EU.

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Climate Change, Global

Participatory agrobiodiversity conservation: keys for an assertive methodology

Elsevier,

Societal Impacts, Volume 3, June 2024, 100051

From 2019 to 2022, a nationwide project funded by the GEF built and strengthened mechanisms to help conserve agrobiodiversity, and one of the territories chosen was the Purhépecha region (Michoacán). This paper systematises the project's impacts in the TASs of Michoacán and rescues the critical methodological elements that served for its successful implementation.

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Articles

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Rural development, South America

Invest in Women: WE Empower UN SDG Challenge

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Launched in 2018, the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge is a first-of-its-kind global competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Features

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Global Partnerships; Sustainable Business Practices; Sustainable Development, Global

Demand-side flexibility enables cost savings in a reversible pH-swing electrochemical process for oceanic CO<inf>2</inf> removal

Elsevier,

Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 5, 20 March 2024
Seawater is an important CO2 sink and a promising avenue for removing CO2 from the environment. Here, an economically viable alternative to existing CO2 capture technologies is proposed, based on a reversible pH-shifting sweater process.
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Climate Change; Industry, Global

International Women's Day Panel 2024

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This International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, join the United Nations in celebrating under the theme Invest in women: Accelerate progress. In this special episode of RELX's "The World We Want" series Dr Márcia Balisciano, Chief Sustainability Officer, is joined by guests Andrea "Andy" Blair, Co-Founder and President of New Zealand based geothermal research and innovation company, Upflow and Susan Blanchet, Founder and CEO of Origen Air. Both Andy and Susan are two of the 2023 awardees of the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge.
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Videos & Webinars

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Sustainable Business Practices; Global Partnerships, Global

How companies can move towards corporate sustainability

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In this episode of the "World We Want" podcast, Márcia Balisciano interviews Lene Bjorn Serpa, Director, Head of Corporate Sustainability & ESG, A.P. Moller - Maersk. They discuss how her work at Maersk aligns with the United Nations sustainable development goals and how companies can contribute to a positive change by engaging with sustainability from a corporate standpoint.
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Podcasts

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Academia; Institutional Frameworks and international cooperation for Sustainable Development; Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable Development, Global

International Women's Day 2024 Podcast Collection

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The International Women's Day "World We Want" Podcast Collection features the latest episodes in the RELX podcast series featuring renowned female leaders from across the globe.

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Special collections

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Academia, Global

Intensifying urban imprint on land surface warming: Insights from local to global scale

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 27, 15 March 2024
In this study, the authors analyse local surface urban heat island during 2003–2018 using satellite observations over 536 cities worldwide. Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of the surface urban heat island are tightly linked with climate-vegetation conditions.
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Articles

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Climate Action; Sustainable cities, Global

Sea-level rise and mental health among coastal communities: A quantitative survey and conditional process analysis

Elsevier,

SSM - Population Health, Volume 25, March 2024
This is the first large-scale empirical study examining the impact of sea-level rise induced by climate change on mental health outcomes among coastal communities.
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Energy, Global; Asia

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