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SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
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SDI2020
Better Business: What are the challenges in making business more sustainable?
The Great Reset provides an opportunity for the business community to build on progress on the SDGs and work towards greater sustainability and inclusion.
SDI2020
Tech for Good: What are the challenges in making technology and digitization more sustainable?
Technology can create opportunity – or exacerbate inequality. Responsible governance and inclusivity can ensure innovation helps us meet the SDG targets.
Future of Food
Quality coffee can boost local economies and benefit farmers – here’s how
Special training to maximize sustainable farming practices can help farmers grow higher quality coffees, boosting productivity and their economies.
Advanced Manufacturing and Production
Factory workers face a major COVID-19 risk. Here’s how AI can help keep them safe
As global manufacturers reopen their factories amid the coronavirus pandemic, find out how artificial intelligence tools can help prevent second-wave outbreaks.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
This is now the world’s greatest threat – and it’s not coronavirus
Affluence is the greatest barrier to a more sustainable world, according to a new scientific report, which also says that tackling overconsumption must become a priority as countries reset.
COVID-19
5 things to know about how coronavirus has hit global energy
The IEA projects that global energy use in 2020 will fall by 6% in what it calls a “historic shock to the entire energy world”.
Future of Consumption
How to keep essential value chains moving during the COVID-19 crisis
Essential value chains around the world are being disrupted at a time when they are needed most. Here are three insights into how to keep things moving.
Future of Consumption
Why it's time to start talking about consumption equality
Conversations around economic development often focus on income equality, but it might be time instead to look at consumption equality, writes Sarita Nayyar.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
The company of the future must do well by doing good
Contributing to a better world and making money are not in conflict with each other, writes the CEO of Royal DSM.
Chemical and Materials Industry
Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 will rest on these 3 pillars
Scaling up technology, policy support and stimulating demand: we need to focus on all three to realise a net-zero emissions world in the next three decades.
Davos 2020
How big data can make supply chains better for consumers and the planet
With data and collaboration, companies can create products that are better for both the consumer and the planet.
Retail, Consumer Goods and Lifestyle
Here's how retailers can encourage more sustainable behaviour
Retailers are in a unique position to help nudge consumers towards making more sustainable and healthier choices. Here are a few of the ways in which companies are doing just that
Sustainable Development
Sustainability and profitability can co-exist. Here’s how
The conversations around sustainability must translate into a war cry to save our future.
Retail, Consumer Goods and Lifestyle
Christmas, by the numbers: 5 facts about holiday season spending
We're spending more, yet millions of people are receiving gifts they don't want. Here are five facts about the economics of the holiday season.
Circular Economy
For a true circular economy, we must redefine waste
Recycling is still seen by many as integral to a circular economy - but preventing waste from being created in the first place is essential if we are to build a new economic model.