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Sustainability

[New] Some 238 million households around the world will need to gain electricity access by 2030 if society is to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7, ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
[New] Shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak, the European Commission launched its European Green Deal, a new policy initiative meant to focus minds and underline the need to transform Europe Economy and set it on a sustainable path, with a goal of becoming the first carbon neutral continent by 2050.
[New] The Sustainable Innovation Fund will help power the UK's economic recovery and develop new sustainable opportunities for businesses in any sector following the coronavirus pandemic, while helping the UK meet its ambitions to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
[New] In 2020, CFOs will face pressure to weigh sustainability as a leading investment factor and find more opportunities for their businesses to invest in innovation that addresses sustainability challenges.
[New] The significant decline in tourism revenues and weaker export demand will put more pressure on the external balance, although if sustained, the lower oil price will provide limited support given Turkey's dependence on imported energy.
[New] As Europe plans its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, many of its leaders are insisting on a Green Recovery that would insure Europe continues to move forward on a sustainable path to carbon neutrality by 2050.
Action on climate change and sustainability - making Milton Keynes the greenest and most sustainable city in the world, implementing the Sustainability Strategy and introducing an action plan to meet our intention to become carbon neutral by 2030 and a post-carbon city by 2050.
Longer term, demand for disposable masks and respirators is expected to return to more sustainable levels and is forecast to grow 5.7% per year to $3.5 billion in 2024.
As a key element of the European Green Deal, the F2F strategy further comprises an overarching ambition to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050, through the promotion of sustainable farming practices.
With farmers managing their farms in a genuinely sustainable manner it is perfectly achievable for UK agriculture to become carbon neutral by 2040.
Germany's government acknowledges that only hydrogen produced on the basis of renewable energies (' green' hydrogen) is sustainable in the long term and aims to creation of 10 GW of domestic electrolysis capacity for green hydrogen made in Germany by 2040 at the latest.
Infrastructure investments will help support sustainable growth in emerging markets over the coming decade; they will be key to improving productivity and resilience in a global slowdown environment.
Spending on infrastructure could be one of the ways to kickstart parts of the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic and help drive strong and sustainable growth over the next decade.
The upcoming United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30) must end data segregation and usher in a new era of automated access for all.
Access to fertility control is a central goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and worldwide use of contraceptive technologies among women is projected to rise to 793 million in 2030.
With the postponement of the COP26 until 2021, the EU will be able to put forward its Climate Law, and will have more time to develop a global benchmark for a sustainable recovery plan and put pressure on recalcitrant members.
As governments design stimulus measures for economies hit by the COVID-19 crisis, they should seize the opportunity of historically low oil prices to redirect some of the half a trillion dollars spent annually supporting fossil fuels into sustainable investment including low-carbon energy.
Ultra Capital is currently reviewing a pipeline of USD 3.3 billion in sustainable infrastructure opportunities, which includes projects that will help realize the vision of a circular economy for plastics.
Now more than ever, sales organizations have an opportunity to deploy microlearning best practices to engage and coach remote teams to sustain relationships and build momentum into the second half of 2020.
No country was on track to achieve all of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 as of last year.
The COVID-19 crisis threatens to deeply and adversely impact the implementation and achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The funding gap needed to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in EM economies will be in the order of $2.5 trillion to $3.0 trillion per year through 2030.
The recapitalisation measures must be designed in a way that meets the EU's policy objectives related to green and digital transformation of the EU economy, in order to allow more sustainable long-term growth and promote the transformation to the agreed EU objective of climate neutrality by 2050.

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Last updated: 05 July 2020