Tag: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

US Coalition on Sustainability Partners with Thoughtworks to Advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Stuart Mitchell

Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering and the US Coalition on Sustainability (USCS) have announced the expansion of SustainChain™, a digital platform to unify and accelerate progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. USCS developed SustainChain to connect innovators, impact investors, businesses, NGOs and alliances with a shared mission of rebuilding sustainable supply chains. Thoughtworks provided its cutting-edge technology and best practices to enable the SustainChain platform to unify cross-industry efforts, knowledge and actionable insights across the public and private sectors…

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Ubiquity University Launches $25,000 Global Sustainability Challenge to Support Students in Solving United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Stuart Mitchell

Ubiquity University is launching the Ubiquity Global Sustainability Challenge to support its students’ involvement in solving global problems, specifically around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The Challenge is intended to encourage, educate and empower Ubiquity students to work together in teams and come up with innovative ways to achieve the UN SDGs. The student team that produces the best project will be awarded $25,000 (twenty-five thousand dollars). Ubiquity University believes that academic institutions must be more than simply disseminators of knowledge. They must actively nurture social activism…

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Retail Industry Launches Ground-Breaking Action Plan To Advance Sustainability, Development And Equality

Stuart Mitchell

Over twenty-five leading UK retailers are today signing up to a series of pledges to tackle some of the biggest global challenges of the coming decades, as highlighted by the UN. Retail is one of the first industries to take collective action in this way. Better Retail Better World includes a series of stretching targets for the retail industry to achieve by 2020, and uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework. These include: Embedding a policy that no worker in the supply chain should pay for…

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