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Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman

Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman

From SDG Academy on 19 March, 2020

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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…
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Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Extractive…

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Extractive Industries

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Allocation of Rights

Allocation of Rights

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Allocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other…
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State-Owned Enterprises: Role and Governance

State-Owned Enterprises: Role and Governance

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Valuing Ecosystem Services

Valuing Ecosystem Services

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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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…
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Business Solutions for Climate Change

Business Solutions for Climate Change

From SDG Academy on 19 August, 2019

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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…
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Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Conversation with Patricia Sullivan, Justice…

Conversation with Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising

From SDG Academy on 24 June, 2021

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This conversation with Professor Patrica Sullivan took place on June 24, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Prof. Sullivan's book…
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The New Dynamics: Conversation with Paul Maseli,…

The New Dynamics: Conversation with Paul Maseli, Director of United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

From SDG Academy on 24 August, 2019

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Paul Maseli asks how recent trends affect the interpretation of Industries without Smokestacks.
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Q&A | Pia Rebello Britto | 2021 Feb. 17

Q&A | Pia Rebello Britto | 2021 Feb. 17

From SDG Academy on 18 February, 2021

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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…
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The decision chain of natural resource…

The decision chain of natural resource management: Part I

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Implementation and Monitoring Legal Frameworks

Implementation and Monitoring Legal Frameworks

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Why are strong, well-drafted legal frameworks not effectively or consistently enforced? This chapter details challenges such as low levels of capacity within government,…
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The Cost of Inaction

The Cost of Inaction

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Peter May profiles different frameworks for evaluating the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. One such framework is the Pressure-State-Response Framework (PSR),…
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The decision chain of natural resource…

The decision chain of natural resource management: Part II

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Engaging Citizens

Engaging Citizens

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Investing in Investing

Investing in Investing

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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