Involving the Community
Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence
Markets and Supply Chains

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Markets and Supply Chains

Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be transported between production and consumption. In off-farm storage, there are issues of food safety, processing, and quality assurance. Seasonal price changes reflect the cost of storage because when simultaneous harvests occur across a huge area, prices are low, but after that, prices rise by exactly the cost of storage, or the…

Markets and Supply Chains
Equality of Opportunity
Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence

07:43

Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence

Saleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural resource development. The impacts of extraction can be highly complex and impact air, water, and soil at different time scales, so these assessment processes examine the possible consequences of the implementation of projects, programs, and policies. Examples are given of efforts to assess projects and how it is done.

Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence
Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman
Equality of Opportunity

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Equality of Opportunity

Non-discrimination is an interesting concept in law; Joshua Castellino argues that in society, some discrimination is perfectly justifiable. Unjustifiable discrimination occurs in the context of marginalized groups as a consequence of a person’s identity, not necessarily ability. Tools for nondiscrimination need to promote equality of opportunity for all. Societies put in place measures like affirmative action to try to remedy this, though these are only temporary solutions. This video…

Equality of Opportunity
"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism
Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman

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Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman

Speaking from West Papua, Indonesia, where he was attending a high-level meeting on green investment, business leader Paul Polman shares his thoughts on the challenges business face when trying to become more sustainable, the need for corporate collaboration on sustainability policy, and the responsibility of business leaders to take action. Mr. Polman is the Co-founder & Chair of IMAGINE, Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, the B Team, Saïd Business School, and…

Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman
Introducing Sustainable Development
"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism

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"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism

How we understand humanitarianism has been changing. People have been reconsidering whether we should be more selective in terms of who we give aid to after the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Since the Kosovo War in 1998-1999, there are claims that militaristic interventions are now often "dressed up" as humanitarian interventions, leading some actors to question the principles of humanitarianism. Neutrality has also become an issue. Humanitarians act on short-term scale to alleviate…

"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism
What is Urban Poverty?
Introducing Sustainable Development

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Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development.

Introducing Sustainable Development
Gender in the City
What is Urban Poverty?

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What is Urban Poverty?

This video is part of Module 3: How can we reduce urban poverty and make cities inclusive and safe? urban poverty and associated issues. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used for commercial purposes.

What is Urban Poverty?
Involving the Community
Gender in the City

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Gender in the City

This video is part of Module 5: How can we improve human development in cities? gender, cities, transportation planning, public spaces

Gender in the City
Markets and Supply Chains
Involving the Community

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Involving the Community

How does inclusive and participatory approaches with ICTs insure a healthy population and ultimately the achievement of universal health coverage? In this video, Chief Nathaniel Ebo Nsarko explores this question by looking at the importance of community involvement, mobile connectivity, the digital gender gap, empowering marginalized groups, and by linking ICTs to the SDGs and health. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Learn more at…

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