april 2016 letter to the economist
* You rightly point out that there remains a substantial amount of work to do to make sustainability the new business norm. Disruptive innovations and standard business concerns to control risk and cost are breaking new ground and transforming business models. They are challenging the status quo of established industries—from fossil fuels to fashion. Given growing environmental and security threats, the private sector needs to accelerate inclusive growth and drive sustainability at far greater speed and scale. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a framework for business to do just that.
A major challenge is the trust deficit in society with regard to business, especially large multinationals and financial institutions. Recent political developments in Europe and America are widely seen as rebukes to economic elites and dramatic evidence of the dire lack of trust. The SDGs, therefore, have a second purpose: to serve as a roadmap for business to create the social license it needs to operate and thrive.
By pursuing the SDGs through sustainable and inclusive new business models, the private sector can rebuild bridges. The result could be that sustainability loses its “faddish” reputation entirely, and instead, becomes an enduring business must-have.
MARK MALLOCH-BROWN
Chair
Business & Sustainable Development Commission
London
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Sunday, December 29, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
bl.ue planet prize hubbed out of japan since 1992
sponsored by asahi glass foundation (tanuma) 50 mn yen prize - see the first 50 winners including one of 2020s laureates - belgium prof louvain - first ;project burkino faso satelite tech humanised with gps
model of factors causing ecologuic chnage beyond national boundaries
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=asahi+blue+planet+laureates
model of factors causing ecologuic chnage beyond national boundaries
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=asahi+blue+planet+laureates
Friday, December 6, 2019
agricultural supply chains - how green can they grow?
supporters https://forest500.org/about/supporters
interesting network- more reports please chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
ENDORSING ORGANISATIONS
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OTHER SUPPORTERS
The following supporters have endorsed the goals of the Forest 500 project. The research, views and opinions presented on this platform are those of Global Canopy and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of organisations endorsing the project.
DONORS
Principal donor
The Forest 500 has been funded by UK aid from the UK government; however the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies.
Additional funding
The Forest 500 has also received funding from the Climate and Land Use Alliance.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Global Center Adaptation Intangibles Cities gca.org
labels co-com= co-commissioners
city role leader
OUR LEADERSHIP
Ban Ki-moon
8th Secretary General of the United Nations
Bill Gates
Co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
https://cdn.gca.org/assets/2019-09/GlobalCommission_Report_FINAL.pdf
The Global Commission on Adaptation is led by 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon and co-chaired by Bill Gates and Kristalina Georgieva. Together they have an audacious mission: to tip the balance in favor of continued growth and more widely shared prosperity, even in a rapidly warming world.
OUR COMMISSIONERS
Our Commissioners are known for their track record of global leadership on major issues, and their ability to advance the Commission’s work. They will oversee the development of a flagship report, to be released in September 2019 ahead of the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Summit.
Achim Steiner
Administrator, UNDP
Petteri Taalas
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Shri C.K Mishra
Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, India
Hilda Heine
President, Marshall Islands
Keith Mitchell
Prime Minister, Grenada
Akinwumi Adesina
President, African Development Bank
Elhadj As Sy
Secretary General, IFRC
Michelle Bachelet
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
Li Ganjie
Minister of Ecology and Environment, China
Anne Hidalgo
Mayor, Paris
Emma Howard Boyd
Chair of the Environment Agency, UK
Naoko Ishii
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Peter Damgaard Jensen
CEO, PKA Ltd
Agnes Kalibata
President, AGRA
Loren Legarda
Deputy Speaker and Representative of the Lone District of Antique, Philippines
Strive Masiyiwa
Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless
José Antonio Meade
Former Finance Minister, Mexico
Gerd Müller
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Muhammad Musa
Executive Director of BRAC International
Cora van Nieuwenhuizen
Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, the Netherlands
Sheela Patel
Chair, Slum/Shack Dwellers International
Feike Sijbesma
CEO, Royal DSM
Francis Suarez
Mayor, Miami
Shemara Wikramanayake
CEO, Macquarie Group Ltd.
Andrew Steer
President and CEO, World Resources Institute
Winnie Byanyima
International Executive Director, Oxfam
Catherine McKenna
Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Attorney General and Minister for Economy, Civil Service and Communications, Fiji
Inger Andersen
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
OUR CONVENING COUNTRIES
The leaders of our convening countries recognize that adaptation is a smart investment that will pay high returns. They also know that failures of adaptation in some countries will have negative spill-over effects on others. They are therefore committed to work together to advance the work of the Commission and catalyze a global adaptation movement.
Argentina
Bangladesh
Canada
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Ethiopia
Germany
Grenada
India
Indonesia
Marshall Islands
Mexico
Netherlands
Senegal
South Africa
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
city role leader
| Glasgow | EXtra | Cop 26 -Nov 2020 |
| Vienna | Founder | Ban-ki Moon |
| Beijing. | Branch Office & c-com | .Li Ganjie Minister of Ecology and Environment, China |
| Seattle | .co-founder | .Bill Gates |
| .DC | .co-founder | .
Kristalina Georgieva IMF-did you know estimated monetary value of nature per hectacre $100 open ocean to 1000$ grassland/woodland to over million dollar coral reef;
also co-sponsor world resources institute
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| .Rotterdam | .GCA main office | .also oct 2020 first annual year of action summit feedback |
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| Dhaka. | lead research hub & co-com | .BRAC U & Muhammad Musa Executive Director of BRAC International |
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| .Delhi/India | .co-com | .Shri C.K Mishra Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, India |
| .Geneva | .co-com | .Michelle Bachelet UN Human Rights (previously president chile) |
| .NY | co-com. | .Achim Steiner Administrator, UNDP UN lead agency development https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/about-us/our-leadership.html |
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| .Abidjan | co-com | .Akinwumi Adesina President, African Development Bank |
| Paris | .co-com | .Anne Hidalgo Mayor, Paris |
| .Bonn | .co-xom | .Patricia Espinosa Executive Secretary, UNFCCC |
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OUR LEADERSHIP
Ban Ki-moon
8th Secretary General of the United Nations
Bill Gates
Co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
https://cdn.gca.org/assets/2019-09/GlobalCommission_Report_FINAL.pdf
Following the United Nations Climate Change Summit on 23rd September 2019, convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres, the Global Commission on Adaptation has begun its Year of Action. Our Year of Action will:
- Advance recommendations from Flagship Report and Action Tracks
- Help accelerate adaptation around the world
- Improve human well-being and result in more sustainable economic development and security
The findings will be presented in October 2020 at the Climate Action Summit hosted by the Netherlands.
The Global Commission on Adaptation is led by 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon and co-chaired by Bill Gates and Kristalina Georgieva. Together they have an audacious mission: to tip the balance in favor of continued growth and more widely shared prosperity, even in a rapidly warming world.
OUR COMMISSIONERS
Our Commissioners are known for their track record of global leadership on major issues, and their ability to advance the Commission’s work. They will oversee the development of a flagship report, to be released in September 2019 ahead of the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Summit.
Achim Steiner
Administrator, UNDP
Petteri Taalas
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Shri C.K Mishra
Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, India
Hilda Heine
President, Marshall Islands
Keith Mitchell
Prime Minister, Grenada
Akinwumi Adesina
President, African Development Bank
Elhadj As Sy
Secretary General, IFRC
Michelle Bachelet
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
Li Ganjie
Minister of Ecology and Environment, China
Anne Hidalgo
Mayor, Paris
Emma Howard Boyd
Chair of the Environment Agency, UK
Naoko Ishii
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Peter Damgaard Jensen
CEO, PKA Ltd
Agnes Kalibata
President, AGRA
Loren Legarda
Deputy Speaker and Representative of the Lone District of Antique, Philippines
Strive Masiyiwa
Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless
José Antonio Meade
Former Finance Minister, Mexico
Gerd Müller
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Muhammad Musa
Executive Director of BRAC International
Cora van Nieuwenhuizen
Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, the Netherlands
Sheela Patel
Chair, Slum/Shack Dwellers International
Feike Sijbesma
CEO, Royal DSM
Francis Suarez
Mayor, Miami
Shemara Wikramanayake
CEO, Macquarie Group Ltd.
Andrew Steer
President and CEO, World Resources Institute
Winnie Byanyima
International Executive Director, Oxfam
Catherine McKenna
Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Attorney General and Minister for Economy, Civil Service and Communications, Fiji
Inger Andersen
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
OUR CONVENING COUNTRIES
The leaders of our convening countries recognize that adaptation is a smart investment that will pay high returns. They also know that failures of adaptation in some countries will have negative spill-over effects on others. They are therefore committed to work together to advance the work of the Commission and catalyze a global adaptation movement.
Argentina
Bangladesh
Canada
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Ethiopia
Germany
Grenada
India
Indonesia
Marshall Islands
Mexico
Netherlands
Senegal
South Africa
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Sunday, December 1, 2019
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