Reporting on sustainable development issues can be sexy if done right. How can journalists convince editors and readers that development stories are worth reading?
Is sustainable business profitable? More businesses show proof by the billions. Millennials drive the demand for sustainable consumption and new reporting standards help align businesses to the SDGs. These are the top 5 CSR stories in 2016.
Achim Steiner and Maria Ramos –
Digitalisation has immense potential to advance finance in support of the Sustainable Development Goals, write the co-chairs of a new United Nations task force on digital financing.
Li Yong
and Hongjoo Hahm –
Overhauling wasteful manufacturing and consumption to achieve a circular economy would benefit the climate, people, and businesses, write UNIDO’s Li Yong and UNESCAP’s Hongjoo Hahm.
Jorge Moreira da Silva –
To solve the global refugee crisis, it's time to begin allocating more funding to peace-keeping and building stronger societies, writes OECD's Jorge Moreira da Silva.
International agencies must support local processes if we are to achieve ambitious global goals – so benefits reach urban communities on the ground whose needs these goals are set up to meet.
Crystal Ho –
The IPCC's climate warning is an opportunity for the business world to show leadership, said UNDP's Achim Steiner in the opening speech at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore.
