March 2014

World Water Day: UN highlights water, energy links for sustainable development

Island Business, 26 March, 2014
To mark World Water Day, the United Nations is highlighting the key role that water and energy play in economic development and the eradication of poverty worldwide, and calling for strong measures to ensure their efficient and equitable use.
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Rwanda: New Trade Policy to Address Climate Change Challenges in the Offing

All Africa, 25 March, 2014
BSI, the business standards company has worked with sustainability analysts Verdantix, to discover how the challenge of sustainable development is really being addressed by businesses.
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UN expert: Sustainable development requires ‘checks and balances’

EurActiv, 24 March, 2014
With UN Millennium Development Goals set to expire in 2015, plans for a successor programme were under debate in Berlin last week. Negotiations are far from conclusion, but it is already clear that democracy and the rule of law are crucial points.
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More than two-thirds of firms say sustainability is a key driver for growth

Click Green, 24 March, 2014
BSI, the business standards company has worked with sustainability analysts Verdantix, to discover how the challenge of sustainable development is really being addressed by businesses.
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BRICS and the green transformation – will mutual learning help achieve sustainability?

Institute of Development Studies, 20 March, 2014
While Europe and North America remain politically paralysed over the pursuit of green growth and renewable technologies, the BRICS countries, particularly China and India have stepped up their low carbon investment.
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Make Eliminating Extreme Inequality a Sustainable Development Goal

Policy Innovation, 20 March, 2014
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, UN member states took a dramatic step by putting people rather than states at the center of the UN’s agenda.
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Let’s get sustainable development goals right

New Straits Times, 18 March, 2014
THE Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under negotiation within the United Nations are set to become the next major driving force for poverty eradication and development.
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