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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations and ushers in the Decade of Action to deliver the Global Goals by 2030. For the achievement of ambitious goals, South-South and triangular cooperation has been further strengthened by developing countries in sharing ideas, knowledge, skills and experience in order to address common challenges and build shared future for…

Understanding the business case for nature conservation can be difficult. Decisions about expanding conservation require a detailed analysis of the many co-benefits of nature and the balance between opportunity and cost. Expanding conservation is both a global and local consideration. To support decision makers, we evaluated the value of nature conservation at a hyperlocal scale. The new…

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world’s blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. These goals and the targets therein integrate economic, social and environmental…

Investments that reduce food loss and waste can deliver big wins on two pressing issues of our time: food security and environmental sustainability, according to a new World Bank report. But the results are not automatic -- countries need well-targeted solutions. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted domestic supply chains, causing some farmers to destroy unsold crops, about a…

The WWF’s Landscape Sourcing Report: Sustainable Business Using the Landscape Approach makes a case for the private sector to adopt landscape approaches to sustainably strengthen and increase cost effectiveness within their supply chains. Due to climate change and other environmental crises, the private sector is facing a number of issues that threaten the reliability and health of their…

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis has underlined the fact that we face a decade of discontinuity and uncertainty, with further shocks and systemic disruption ahead. Moments of radical disruption like this one force us to revisit what we value and to explore how we might reimagine the future. From System Shock to System Change, published on our newly relaunched platform,…