If you are looking to achieve positive sustainable impact through investing, you likely use one global central framework: the 17 Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the United Nations in 2015.

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

5 April 2023 - Amid growing food and energy crises, an uncertain global economic outlook, and the escalating impacts of climate change, the UN today said that a sustainable industrial transformation ...

As darkness fell across New York City on the 25th of September 2015, the headquarters of the United Nations lit up with brightly colored infographics, images, and slogans celebrating the adoption of a ...

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Sustainable investing, also known as socially responsible investing (SRI) or environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, may appeal to investors who want their portfolios to reflect their ...

June 2012, No. 1 & 2 Vol. XLIX, The Future We Want? Over the last two decades, demographic and economic changes have propelled cities and urban centres to become the principal habitat of humankind.

In a Zen parable, a man sees a horse and rider galloping by. The man asks the rider where he’s going, and the rider responds, “I don’t know. Ask the horse!” Most people want a strong economy, social ...

Investors seeking clues about where society is headed—and which trends could benefit—might look at the Sustainable Development Goals. Adopted by United Nations members in 2015, the 17 Sustainable ...

Sustainability is a core value at the American Chemical Society. Our 150th milestone anniversary in April—with the month’s theme aptly as ‘Sustainability’— is a wonderful and meaningful time to ...