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Anti-ESG proposals flooded U.S. corporate annual meeting agendas in 2024 by shareholder proponents who do not support limiting corporate environmental impacts, promoting diversity, or providing investors with more ESG disclosure, filing more than 100 shareholder proposals as of June 30, 2024.  Support averaged only 1.9 ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Southeast Asian countries have been engaging more visibly and actively in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) dialogue than the millennium development goals domain.  However, ASEAN has not been observed championing Agenda 2030 and retaining the SDGs on the glo ...

In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the central normative framework for sustainable development worldwide.  The effectiveness of governing by such broad global goals, however, remains uncertain and the question arises whether these 17 SDGs have had any political impact withi ...

The term "greenflation," which combines "green" meaning decarbonization and "inflation" meaning rising prices, has become widely known.  As investment in fossil fuels has been curbed, demand for natural gas, which can have lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal, has increased, causing energy prices to rise.  Addressi ...

Six out of nine planetary boundaries have already been breached with the seventh is about to be breached, too.  Despite global promises, crucial policies fall short, which causes alarm amongst scientist.  Carbon emissions are on the rise, natural feedback loops spiral downwards, and essential biodiversity targets remai ...