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Contributing Editor: Trisha Bauman, Principal & Founder, TJBauman LLC and ISSP Governing Board Member 

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Sustain-a-Livity – JSEZA’s Strategy for Responsible Business

By Janis Williams • 18 Apr, 2024
Jamaica is navigating increasingly extreme climate impacts — and their multiplier effect on economic and social health. Janis Williams, Senior Director-Legal, at Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) shares how JSEZA is ensuring the country's sustainable development: job growth in harmony with social and environmental wellness.

The Role of AI in Advancing Social Equity and Protecting Human Rights

By Nicole Cacal • 21 Mar, 2024
Nicole Cacal, Founder and CEO of Forbes Ignite and ISSP Governing Board Secretary, shares insights into how we might shape the evolving landscape of AI and emerging technologies to be able to serve humanity's highest ideals, ensuring no one is left behind.
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How to Make Materiality More Inclusive – Without Losing Focus

By Alison Taylor • 12 Feb, 2024
Alison Taylor, Clinical Professor, NYU Stern School of Business and author of the newly released Higher Ground: How Business Can do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World, shares the key steps for ensuring a strategic focus while leading an inclusive materiality assessment across stakeholders.
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Is ESG Dead? Or Just in the Middle of a Reinvention?

By Daniella Foster • 18 Jan, 2024
Daniella Foster, Executive Board Member, SVP and Global Head of Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability for Bayer’s Consumer Health Division and Board Chair at the UN Global Compact Network USA, calls for a pivot away from the "ESG" battles and to focus instead on sustainable business and the sustainability of your business.
John Elkington shares an on-the-ground view into COP28

COP28: Diving for Tomorrow's Pearls

By John Elkington • 21 Dec, 2023
John Elkington, Founder and Chief Pollinator at Volans and ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Honoree, shares an on-the-ground view into COP28 — and the implications of its final declaration.

ISSP 15 Years On: What’s Next for Our Profession?

By Marsha Willard, Ph.D., SEP • 16 Nov, 2023
ISSP Co-founder and Presidio Graduate School Faculty Chair Marsha Willard, PhD, SEP, shares insights into the emerging trends shaping our sustainability profession and how ISSP is enabling us to meet those challenges.

I'm a Traditionalist, a Capitalist, and a Justice Oriented Advocate

By Gwen Migita, MBA • 19 Oct, 2023
Gwen Migita, MBA, Global Head of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) & Social Impact Practice at Point B, offers a pro-business and capital markets perspective on integrating fully inclusive equity and justice — as a necessity for planetary and societal survival for all.

What Comes When the Global Carbon Budget Is Gone? The CRO and a Negative Carbon Economy

By Justin Macinante, PhD, MEL, LLB • 21 Sep, 2023
At our present GHG emissions level, it is clear that emission reductions alone will not limit global surface temperature increase to the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C by end of century. Justin Macinante, PhD, MEL, LLB, a Climate Change Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Law School, presents a proposed mechanism that could drive the necessary CO2 removals — and meet the Paris target.

Reclaiming Narratives: Harnessing the SDGs to Empower Local Voices

By Lena Arkawi, MIA • 20 Jul, 2023
Throughout Syria’s war, committed changemakers have worked to expand the narrative and to cultivate empathy for those affected. Lena Arkawi, MIA, founded Sourceable, Inc with a group of Columbia graduate students to enable citizen journalists to share their stories in real-time with media and NGOs. In this blog, she shares how their work is guided by the principles of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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