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  1. Human Capital and Climate Change
    Author: Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff
    Published: March 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on... more

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    Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law data across 16 European countries. We analyze effects on pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences, and green voting, with voting gains equivalent to a substantial 35% increase

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31000
    Subjects: Bildung; Klimawandel; Humankapital; Wirkungsanalyse; Verbrauchereinstellung; Politische Einstellung; Wahlverhalten; Umweltökonomik; EU-Staaten; Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior; Public Goods; General; Government Policy; Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State; Sustainable Development; Environmental Economics
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  2. International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales
    Author: Taylor, Michael Scott; Mayer, Fruzsina
    Published: June 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whale (SRKW) population has declined by more than... more

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    Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whale (SRKW) population has declined by more than 25 percent, putting them at risk of extinction. The cause of this decline is hotly debated. This paper employs novel data, an innovative noise pollution model, and quasi-experimental methods borrowed from environmental economics to solve this puzzle. We find consistent evidence that vessel noise pollution from international shipping has lowered fertility and raised the mortality of the SRKW significantly. Had noise pollution remained at its pre-1998 levels, the SRKW population would be 30% larger. Noise pollution is a growing threat to marine mammals worldwide

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31390
    Subjects: Seefische; Artenschutz; Umweltbelastung; Lärm; Gewässerbelastung; Umweltökonomik; Seefische; Artenschutz; Umweltbelastung; Lärm; Gewässerbelastung; Umweltökonomik; Trade; Sustainable Development; General; Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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  3. Policy considerations for sustainable transportation in three Caribbean small island developing states
    options for improving land transportation efficiency : Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and Jamaica
    Author: Phillips, Willard; Nicholson, George; Alleyne, Antonio; Alfonso, Maurys
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Santiago

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    Series: Studies and perspectives ; 117
    Subjects: Carbon Footprint; Environment; Logistics And Mobility; Sustainable Development; Transport; Sustainable Transport; Road Transport; Transport Policy; Small Island Developing States
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  4. Statistical literacy
    an enabler of statistical capacity development in the Caribbean
    Author: Floyd, Shirelle; Mkrtchyan, Iskuhi; Abdulkadri, Abdullahi Olabode
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Santiago

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    Series: Studies and perspectives ; 113
    Subjects: Social Statistics; Sustainable Development; Statistics; Statistical Capacity; Capacity Building; Technical Training
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  5. Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run
    Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018
    Author: McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Oxley, Les
    Published: April 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and... more

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    We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of economic development by incorporating broader measures of saving and investment, including human capital (education), and natural resource depletion. Its value as an indicator is determined by its ability to be used to predict future well-being. This article provides consistent historical estimates of GS since 1850 for 25 countries to enhance, complement, and contextualise the work of the World Bank and others

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31155
    Subjects: Wirtschaftsindikator; Sparen; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Wirtschaftswachstum; Welt; General, International, or Comparative; Sustainable Development; Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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  6. Multipartisme
    est-ce bon pour les pays en développement?
    Author: Gleckman, Harris
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  South Centre, Genève, Suisse

    The preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) are well underway. In this process, the UN Secretary-General and most OECD countries argue that multistakeholderism should now be accepted as a part of global governance and... more

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    The preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) are well underway. In this process, the UN Secretary-General and most OECD countries argue that multistakeholderism should now be accepted as a part of global governance and multilateralism. This paper argues the opposite: multistakeholdermism undermines multilateralism and limits the role of developing countries in global governance. Global governance operates via a common narrative, a set of institutions, and the exercise of power. The first section of the paper provides the background to the World Economic Forum's role in developing the narrative and the preliminary efforts of transnational corporations (TNCs) and major Northern NGOs to build an institutional structure for multistakeholderism. The first section also locates these developments in the context of TNC pressures on the UN and developing countries, going back 50 years to President Allende's appeal to the General Assembly and UNCTAD. The second section identifies six fundamental challenges presented by multistakeholderism to multilateralism and G77 governments. After an indepth analysis of each challenge, the paper concludes with a menu of multilateral options to respond today and in the context of the SOTF to multistakeholderism's intrusion into global governance. The choices include counter-moves on the political level and on the procedural level, the combination of which allows governments to create a variety of counter-strategies.

     
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    Series: Document de recherche / South Centre ; 182 (7 septembre 2023)
    Subjects: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Global Governance; Multilateralism; Multistakeholderism; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Summit of the Future; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Transnational Corporations (TNCs); Transnational Institute; United Nations (UN); World Economic Forum (WEF)
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  7. Multistakeholderismo
    ¿es bueno para los países en desarrollo?
    Author: Gleckman, Harris
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  South Centre, Ginebra, Suiza

    The preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) are well underway. In this process, the UN Secretary-General and most OECD countries argue that multistakeholderism should now be accepted as a part of global governance and... more

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    The preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) are well underway. In this process, the UN Secretary-General and most OECD countries argue that multistakeholderism should now be accepted as a part of global governance and multilateralism. This paper argues the opposite: multistakeholdermism undermines multilateralism and limits the role of developing countries in global governance. Global governance operates via a common narrative, a set of institutions, and the exercise of power. The first section of the paper provides the background to the World Economic Forum's role in developing the narrative and the preliminary efforts of transnational corporations (TNCs) and major Northern NGOs to build an institutional structure for multistakeholderism. The first section also locates these developments in the context of TNC pressures on the UN and developing countries, going back 50 years to President Allende's appeal to the General Assembly and UNCTAD. The second section identifies six fundamental challenges presented by multistakeholderism to multilateralism and G77 governments. After an indepth analysis of each challenge, the paper concludes with a menu of multilateral options to respond today and in the context of the SOTF to multistakeholderism's intrusion into global governance. The choices include counter-moves on the political level and on the procedural level, the combination of which allows governments to create a variety of counter-strategies.

     
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    Series: Documento de investigación / South Centre ; 182 (7 de septiembre de 2023)
    Subjects: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Global Governance; Multilateralism; Multistakeholderism; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Summit of the Future; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Transnational Corporations (TNCs); Transnational Institute; United Nations (UN); World Economic Forum (WEF)
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  8. Advancing Pacific priorities 2023
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  ESCAP, [Bangkok, Thailand]

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    Subjects: Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Regional Cooperation; Social Development; International Trade; Sustainable Energy; Statistics
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  9. G20 compendium on investment promotion, attraction and facilitation for sustainable development
    emerging G20 IPA strategy and best practice
    Author: Nazareth Satyanand, Premila
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand

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    Series: United Nations publication
    Subjects: Technological Innovations; Foreign Direct Investment; Trade Promotion; Sustainable Development
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  10. On the Economics of Extinction and Mass Extinctions
    Author: Taylor, Michael Scott; Weder, Rolf
    Published: December 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species worldwide. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent... more

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    Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species worldwide. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent concerns over the extent and rate of biodiversity loss have led to renewed interest in extinction outcomes and speculation concerning humans' potential role in any future mass extinction. In this paper, we discuss the economic causes of extinction in two high-profile cases - Sharks and the North American Buffalo - and then extend our framework to allow for multiple species and the possibility of mass extinction. Throughout, we present evidence drawn from authoritative data sources with a focus on shark populations to ground our analysis. Despite large gaps in our data, the available evidence suggests extinction risks are rising for many species and policy is slow to react

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31952
    Subjects: Artenvielfalt; Artenschutz; Fische; Rinder; Umweltökonomik; Sustainable Development; General; Issues in International Trade; Environmental Economics; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
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  11. Índice multicritério de sustentabilidade (IMS) na reserva extrativista Chico Mendes, Acre - Brasil
    Author: Lima, Lucas Ferreira; Maciel, Raimundo Cláudio Gomes; Mangabeira, João Alfredo Carvalho; Romeiro, Ademar Ribeiro; Tôsto, Sérgio Gomes; Maciel, Mitali Daian Alves; Sarcinelli, Oscar; Oliveira, Oleides Francisca; Pereira, Lauro Charlet
    Published: novembro 2023
    Publisher:  Instituto de Economia, UNICAMP, Campinas

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    Series: Texto para discussão / Instituto de Economia, UNICAMP ; 457
    Subjects: Performance Indicator; Biodiversity; Amazon Biome; Multicriteria Decision Analysis; Sustainable Development
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  12. Cooperatives as hybrid approach to pull off sustainable livelihoods development through Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    a desk review
    Author: Muthumariappan, Karthikeyan; Palanisamy, Karthika
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  CIRIEC International, Université de Liège, Liège (Belgium)

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    Series: Working paper / CIRIEC ; no. 2023, 07
    Subjects: Cooperatives; Hybrid Approach; Livelihoods; Sustainable Development; SDGs
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  13. Is the Emphasis on Cofinancing Good for Environmental Multilateral Funds?
    Author: Kotchen, Matthew J.; Vogt, Andrew
    Published: July 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    International environment and development agencies increasingly emphasize external cofinancing when selecting projects to fund. This paper considers whether the emphasis on cofinancing helps promote institutional objectives, or creates perverse and... more

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    International environment and development agencies increasingly emphasize external cofinancing when selecting projects to fund. This paper considers whether the emphasis on cofinancing helps promote institutional objectives, or creates perverse and inefficient incentives. We present a model of project selection that can apply to any funding agency, but focus on environmental multilateral funds and climate change. We show that introducing cofinancing objectives to a fund that seeks to maximize its immediate environmental impact is redundant as best, and more likely counterproductive. We test implications of our model using project-level data from two of the leading environmental multilateral funds, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). While tradeoffs exist between emission reductions and cofinancing, we find that they are not strong enough to imply that current cofinancing preferences are diminishing the environmental benefits that funds can claim. However, we also find that the emphasis on cofinancing in project selection is likely to be globally inefficient, as projects with greater cofinancing ratios tend to yield smaller emission reductions per gross dollar spent. This finding should sound a note of caution given the overall scarcity of financial resources available to achieve global climate goals

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31458
    Subjects: Internationale Organisation; Internationale Umweltpolitik; Projektfinanzierung; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Welt; Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products; Sustainable Development; Government Policy
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  14. Towards sustainability
    the relationship between foreign direct investment, economic freedom and inclusive green growth
    Author: Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Figari, Francesco; Ojong, Nathanael
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  African Governance and Development Institute, [Yaoundé]

    This study contributes to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability literature by examining three important issues. First, the study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic freedom on inclusive green growth (IGG)... more

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    This study contributes to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability literature by examining three important issues. First, the study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic freedom on inclusive green growth (IGG) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Second, we investigate whether economic freedom interacts with FDI to promote IGG. Third, we identify minimum the thresholds required for economic freedom to cause FDI to foster IGG. The findings are based on macro data for 20 SSA countries. Evidence, based on instrumental variable regression, show that, unconditionally, FDI is not statistically significant for promoting IGG. Second, the study finds that SSA's 'Mostly unfree' economic architecture conditions FDI to reduce IGG. Third, results from our threshold regression reveal that the minimum threshold required for economic freedom to cause FDI to foster IGG is 66.2% (Moderately free). The study sheds new light on investments necessary for SSA's economic architecture to form relevant synergies with FDI to promote IGG.

     
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    Series: AGDI working paper ; WP/23, 023
    Subjects: Economic Freedom; FDI; Government Integrity; Inclusive Green Growth; Sustainable Development; sub-Saharan Africa
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  15. Foreign investment flows in a shifting geoeconomic landscape
    Author: Danish
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland

    The economic shocks from the pandemic and rising geoeconomic tensions have triggered an accelerated restructuring of foreign investment flows in global value chains. As the previous determinants of foreign investment are rapidly changing, many new... more

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    The economic shocks from the pandemic and rising geoeconomic tensions have triggered an accelerated restructuring of foreign investment flows in global value chains. As the previous determinants of foreign investment are rapidly changing, many new risks and opportunities abound for developing countries looking to attract FDI into their economies. This paper therefore looks at some of the important issues affecting foreign investment flows to developing countries both now and in the future. It then lays out some policy imperatives which can help countries ensure that the inbound foreign investment is responsible, sustainable and contributes to achieving the national development priorities.

     
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    Series: Research paper / South Centre ; 185 (13 October 2023)
    Subjects: Climate Change; COVID-19; Digital Transformation; Foreign Direct Investment (FDI); Global Investment Regime; Global Value Chains (GVCs); Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD); International Investment Agreements (IIAs); International Investment Regime; Investment; Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) System; ISDS Reform; Pandemic; Sustainable Development
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  16. Multistakeholderism
    is it good for developing countries?
    Author: Gleckman, Harris
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland

    The preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) are well underway. In this process, the UN Secretary-General and most OECD countries argue that multistakeholderism should now be accepted as a part of global governance and... more

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    The preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) are well underway. In this process, the UN Secretary-General and most OECD countries argue that multistakeholderism should now be accepted as a part of global governance and multilateralism. This paper argues the opposite: multistakeholdermism undermines multilateralism and limits the role of developing countries in global governance. Global governance operates via a common narrative, a set of institutions, and the exercise of power. The first section of the paper provides the background to the World Economic Forum's role in developing the narrative and the preliminary efforts of transnational corporations (TNCs) and major Northern NGOs to build an institutional structure for multistakeholderism. The first section also locates these developments in the context of TNC pressures on the UN and developing countries, going back 50 years to President Allende's appeal to the General Assembly and UNCTAD. The second section identifies six fundamental challenges presented by multistakeholderism to multilateralism and G77 governments. After an indepth analysis of each challenge, the paper concludes with a menu of multilateral options to respond today and in the context of the SOTF to multistakeholderism's intrusion into global governance. The choices include counter-moves on the political level and on the procedural level, the combination of which allows governments to create a variety of counter-strategies.

     
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    Series: Research paper / South Centre ; 182 (7 September 2023)
    Subjects: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Global Governance; Multilateralism; Multistakeholderism; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Summit of the Future; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Transnational Corporations (TNCs); Transnational Institute; United Nations (UN); World Economic Forum (WEF)
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  17. A comparison between sustainability frameworks
    an integrated reading through ESG criteria for business strategies and enterprise risk management
    Author: Casciotti, Paola
    Published: October 2023
    Publisher:  Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italia

    Implementing the complex Agenda 2030, with its high global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires, in the by now short time horizon of reference, an extraordinary effort, at all institutionals and private levels, to converge effectively on the... more

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    Implementing the complex Agenda 2030, with its high global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires, in the by now short time horizon of reference, an extraordinary effort, at all institutionals and private levels, to converge effectively on the whole system of intermediate and interrelated targets. At the same time, it is highly strategic to ensure macro and microeconomic financial long term balances among public and private sectors. The role of Sustainable Finance, in this context, is absolutely central. On the legislative side, the evolution of international directives, from Non Financial Reporting to Sustainability Reporting, impose to pay attention to new criteria and contents, also in order to distinguish deviant greenwashing phenomena. The paper compares the main frameworks, concerning the multiple and complex dimensions of Sustainability, like the institutional ones (MDG, SDG, BES) and one of the most widespread standard of non financial reporting framework (GRI) adopted by companies. The study aims to identify suitable criteria to allow the development of a simplified integrated analysis model of all targets and indicators established and currently in use, in order to converge effectively on the SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The identified suitable criteria are the so called "ESG" criteria, increasingly recommended in the context of Sustainable Finance and by Supervisory bodies, as drivers in sustainability analyses, portfolio selection and rating determination. The paper, therefore, shows the results achieved by comparing these frameworks according to the proposed classification based on the individual E-S-G criteria and on their possible combinations (ES-EG-SG-ESG), through multidimensional matrixes of each goal, dimension, target and indicator (n.° 855) of the examined frameworks. The analysis quantifies the importance of environmental, social and governance drivers and the importance of their combination for each framework considered and also through them altogether. As mentioned in this paper, further analysis by the author leads to develop, according to this ESG simplified classification approach, a new enterprise internal framework, to integrate both sustainability and financial drivers, into Corporates strategic investment decision models and internal capital allocation (tangible and intangible) policies. In this way, the integration of sustainability criteria in all enterprises' decision-making and risk management and control processes, becomes more effective and coherent with the Sustainable Development Goals. Consequently, the complex frameworks analysed, may become more easily comparable and integrated at an application enterprise level.

     
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    Series: Working paper / Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei ; 2023, 018
    Subjects: ESG; SDGs; MDGs; GRI; Experimental Classification; Sustainable Finance; Integration; Enterprises; Corporate Risk Strategy; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Development
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  18. Least Developed Countries and their progress on the sustainable development goals
    Author: Lunenborg, Peter
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland

    This Research Paper reviews Least Developed Countries' (LDCs) collective progress on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), based on the available data on the indicators for the 169 SDG targets. It makes recommendations for... more

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    This Research Paper reviews Least Developed Countries' (LDCs) collective progress on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), based on the available data on the indicators for the 169 SDG targets. It makes recommendations for LDCs and other States to consider advancing in relevant UN processes as well as the WTO's. LDCs made progress on 28% of the SDGs. This collective progress shows that these countries are far from achieving what were deemed achievable goals in 2015. With respect to trade-related SDGs, LDCs have not made progress on any of the five trade-related SDGs that mention LDCs specifically. This paper does not delve into the causes of this gap, but it suggests that international cooperation and, particularly, the developed countries' assistance, has been insufficient to address the needs of a large part of the world population that still lives in poverty and without hope of a better future. However, the Doha Programme of Action (DPoA), a development framework with targets specifically for LDCs - which overlap with SDG targets - appears to dilute several original SDG targets, in particular those in SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

     
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    Series: Research paper / South Centre ; 183 (15 September 2023)
    Subjects: Doha Programme of Action (DPoA); Global Indicator Framework; Least Developed Countries (LDCs); SDG Summit; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Trade; Trade for Development; United Nations (UN); World Trade Organization (WTO)
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