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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, which set out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 targets and 231 unique indicators as a significant initiative towards global socioeconomic sustainability.  Governments commonly use construction as the principal means for the pol ...

Within seven days, Donald Trump's re-election on November 5 and Shell's victory in court on November 11 the fate of planet Earth was decided. Trump plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as soon as he takes office as the 47th President of the United States on Monday, January 20, 2025, as he did at the start of his ...

Nuclear energy is propagated by science, companies, and governments as a source of clean energy source, as opposed to CO₂-producing plants.  However, the effects nuclear energy has on the environment pose serious threats that cannot be ignored or greenwashed.  The principal environmental and safety concerns are CO₂ emi ...

Private finance is essential for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  To mobilize the finance and harness capital flows for sustainable development and investing, the investment community must make sense of the SDGs.  For this, a global benchmarking tool, SDG rating harmonization, a globally adopted taxon ...

Our current economic system can be considered a “linear economy”, built on a model of extracting raw materials from nature, turning them into products, and then discarding them as waste.  Currently, only 7.2% of used materials are cycled back into our economies after use.  This has a significant burden on the environme ...