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From SDG Academy on 19 March, 2020
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
What are the key elements of a legal framework for the extractive sector? These can include a country's constitution (for example, laying out who owns natural… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Allocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
State-controlled companies often play an outsized role in the management of the oil, gas, and mining industries. For example, they control about 90 percent of all global… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Ecosystem services can be divided among those that are provisioning; those that produce market goods that are consumed by human beings; those that regulate the provision… -
From SDG Academy on 24 August, 2019
Paul Maseli asks how recent trends affect the interpretation of Industries without Smokestacks. -
From SDG Academy on 19 August, 2019
In this chapter, Peter Bakker talks about the role of business in fighting climate change. He declares the Paris Climate Agreement as a success and outlines the three… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
in this chapter, Paul Collier looks at the politics of how the economic decision chain, from the discovery process of natural resources to domestic investments. He… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Discovery of natural resources is difficult; this is evidenced by the fact that in the typical poor country, if we look at how many resources it had discovered per… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Peter May profiles different frameworks for evaluating the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. One such framework is the Pressure-State-Response Framework (PSR),… -
From SDG Academy on 18 February, 2021
This live Q&A session took place on Feb 17, 2021, and answered questions related to early childhood development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Paul Collier looks at why it matters to build a critical mass of citizen understanding so that countries can take decisions that harness resources for… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Using the revenues from resource extraction well is difficult. The first reason is that the revenues are volatile, and they are not sustainable. Volatility is evidenced… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Paul Collier looks at how to cover money that is saved into sustained levels of prosperity by domestic investment, or what he calls investing in… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, one of the chief architects of the Laudato Si' encyclical, discusses the context in which the encyclical was conceived and… -
From SDG Academy on 19 August, 2019
In this chapter, Petr Havlik mentions that the trade offs between climate mitigation and food availability are potential real in the developing world and presents…