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The Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program Strategic Framework 2030 (GMS-2030) aims to strengthen regional cooperation and integration in critical areas. GMS-2030 builds upon recognized strengths with a project-led approach that will benefit the community, support connectivity, and improve competitiveness. It also emphasizes the challenges of the coronavirus disease and aims to ensure that government strategies are conducive to a robust...
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Strategy 2030 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) recognizes the "increasingly diversified and sophisticated" needs of its clients. The bank commits to "customizing its approach to meet the varying needs of its diverse client base" and "supporting innovative financial products and facilitating a culture of innovation and responsiveness to changing client needs." ADB Client Perceptions Survey 2020 probes on these evolving needs and whether ADB is meeting...
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Ética-estética y ambiente-sostenibilidad: reflexiones y estudios de caso compila un conjunto de escritos relacionados con el ambiente, el ecologismo, la filosofía ambiental, las epistemologías del Sur y los conflictos ambientales, con el ánimo de provocar el debate, el diálogo, el disenso, el consenso y el encuentro con aquellas personas interesadas en los temas relacionados con el sistema viviente, con el papel que desempeña la humanidad en...
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This publication outlines the five priority areas and three modalities of ADB's approach to climate change: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions.
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This publication documents Japan's experience in pursuing sustainable sanitation solutions in the context of economic development. Five case studies illustrate how sound sanitation policies are essential in achieving a nation's growth. Selected projects in Kitakyushu City, Kobe City, Saitama City, Saitama Shintoshin, and Tadotsu Town provide examples of how robust sanitation systems can deliver economic and environmental benefits. Produced by the...
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The Community Justice Liaison Unit was established under Papua New Guinea's (PNG) law and justice sector program, with the support of the Australian government, to enhance the capacity of PNG's civil society and facilitate its involvement in policy development and delivery of services in the justice sector. The case study highlights those efforts in a context characterized by broad-based ownership of sector reforms and shared interests among civil...
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This compilation of important distributist authors delivers valuable insight into the manifest problems of society. Although most of the contributions were written more than 50-years ago, the questions raised by the writers have remained largely unanswered, and essays regarding topics like education, work, and freedom have lost little relevance in the ensuing decades. Featured authors include Eric Gill, Harold J. Massingham, and Dorothy Sayers.
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A decade after it took form, the Clean Energy Program of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was assessed according to the indicators set out in the 2009 Energy Policy. Drawing from hundreds of clean energy and energy access projects approved by ADB in 2008–2018, this review determines how far the bank has gone toward achieving its targets vis-à-vis baseline data from 2005 to 2007. It also explores what must to be done further in light of the new...
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It's time for a new kind of economy We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is not more but enough. They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial...
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Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top 1 percent of people own more than half of the world's wealth, while hundreds of millions suffer in extreme poverty. Governments quarrel over the politics of environmental policy, even as climate change poses an existential threat to life on the planet. And communities "hollowed out" by the forces of globalization still struggle to stand on their...
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The international bestselling author of “When Corporations Rule the World” shares a vital new vision for changing humanity's self-destructive course.
We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a self-destructive path. In “Change the Story, Change the Future”, Korten offers a new story that lets us reimagine society and navigate the critical needs of our time.
Korten calls our...
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This book is intended to be a practical introduction to sustainability reporting and communications that begins by discussing material legal and regulatory considerations and the some of the major sustainability reporting frameworks and then continues with detailed illustrations of how companies might create and distribute their sustainability reports and develop and implement their CSR communications strategies.
In order to know whether or not the...
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In 2002, I was giving a talk about sustainable furnishings and the impact of products on the environment. I finished the opening statement with the line "One green deed spawns another." It was meant to get the audience more broadly engaged in the welfare of our environment; the thought that a single effort might compel someone else to act seemed so simple. For fifteen years, I have closed many other talks with those same five words. If you polled...
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Une nouvelle manière de communiquer...
La communication est un levier essentiel pour réaliser les objectifs d''un développement durable, que ce soit pour expliquer les enjeux, inciter à changer de comportement, ou encore valoriser les actions menées par une organisation. La créativité et la pertinence ont bien sûr leur importance, mais le défi est bien plus ambitieux : changer les pratiques de la communication pour limiter concrètement...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Ram Charan's book "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business" argues that, while breakthrough technologies and new business models get all the good press, often the combined effect of a number of smaller growth initiatives can be far greater. In his book, the author reveals that the key to making these small changes happen is to engage everyone in the organisation in the quest, rather than just the senior management....
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Sustainability offers a vision for business and society that benefits Earth. Yet sustainability is often taught in abstract and disconnected ways.
With the Yellowstone River Valley of Montana as its setting, this book introduces readers to sustainability issues, theory, and science. It addresses business profitability, physical environment processes, wildlife, public policies, and American Indian rights. It stresses practical understandings of sustainability...
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The Principles of Cartel Disruption shares business principles for innovation, incubation, disruption, acceleration, and maximizing growth through the various stages of a company's lifecycle. This easy to follow blueprint is the result of 30 years of successful entrepreneurial toughness and the experience of maximizing value through aligning people, process, strategy, and sustainability.
The Principles of Cartel Disruption and the "Cartel Disruption...
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Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott's Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability and start making a difference.
These ecosystem ideas are illustrated through inspiring stories from Vancouver-area green innovators. See how these bright thinkers from a variety of disciplines work like nature to benefit the...
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Corporación 2020 presenta nuevos enfoques para medir el verdadero costo para las empresas del desarrollo de sus productos y servicios y sus obligaciones para la sociedad
Desde una mirada detallada de la historia de las corporaciones hace una reflexión inteligente sobre los pasos requeridos para lograr un mejor modelo corporativo, Sukhdev entusiasma al lector mostrando el rol que juegan las empresas para crear un futuro más equitativo y sostenible.
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