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The sustainable development principle drives environmentally destructive neoliberal economic growth that exploits and degrades the local ecology. Despite well-meaning intentions behind sustainable development, it facilitates exploitative economic development activities that exacerbate systemic inequalities and injustic ...

Financial markets are the principal means for financing socioeconomic activity and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  Governments and financial market regulators define the parameters and incentives within which market participants make investment and financing decisions and operate, while the provide ...

Climate scenario analysis is a key tool for evaluating complex physical and transition risks of companies and communities.  This raises questions about the credibility of transition plans and long-term risk management processes that do not apply the scenarios.  Limited standardization and transparency make it difficult ...

While ESG and SDG are complementary, they cannot be used interchangeably to identify the sustainability of companies and their contribution to social development and the planet.  Where sustainable investors aim to invest in companies that contribute to sustainable development, there is disagreement on how best to measu ...

The circular economy (CE) is an optimal pathway to sustainable development and companies, governments and academics have formulated various proposals to measure circularity.  Ideally, circularity metrics indicate how well circularity is applied to the whole life cycle of products and services in terms of society, the e ...