The business of sustainable development
Human trafficking is gradually moving up on the national and international agenda as regulators, investors and civil society contemplate to take more measures to stop it. It is also partly due to the understanding that the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing human trafficking risks.
While it is difficult to assess the impact of the recently announced UN Global Compact’s 2021 SDG Pioneers in achieving the SDGs, the initiatives can serve as examples for others to integrate the goals in their businesses.
For the first time since adoption in 2015 for a better world, the worldwide progress on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) has shown reversal due to increased poverty and unemployment caused by Covid-19.
Books on sustainability published in 2020 emphasise revisiting the current development model with more urgency due to Covid-19.
From investigative reports, poetry collections, self-help guides to philosophical treatises, the Covid-19 pandemic has given birth to hundreds of books in an otherwise depressed publishing market.
US President elect Joe Biden’s pledge to rejoin the Paris Agreement on his first day in office augurs well for India’s renewable energy sector
Chris Barz-Browns in his ‘Shine: How to Survive and Thrive at Work’ seeks to help ordinary people live extraordinary lives.
Roger Martin’s ‘Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL’ lays bare what is wrong with American capitalism and offers prescriptions for fixing it.
‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty’ by MIT’s Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo argues that anti-poverty policies are flawed because of lack of understanding of poverty and its reasons and have laid down a fresh approach based on learning from past experiences.
After making their mark in leading multinationals, IIM and IIT alumni are now taking their success stories a step further and heading influential NGOs tackling challenges ranging from protection of human rights to mitigating climate change.