Thursday, 23 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
Global hunger is on the rise and under-nutrition is still impacting millions of children. United Nation’s SDG Knowledge Platform estimated as of 2017 821 million people were undernourished 770 million
Thursday, 23 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
  This year’s World Economic Forum’s (WEF) conference in Davos has placed a huge emphasis on achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and solving the climate crisis. One stakeholder in
Wednesday, 22 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
Swiss Learning Exchange was in the Female Quotient Lounge, Davos when the session on Academia was going on.   Academia can play a critical role in building a sustainable and cohesive
GDP
Wednesday, 22 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
“Financial industry is as culpable as the fossil fuel industry in creating the climate emergency”. Strong words from Jennifer Morgan (international executive director of Greenpeace) during World Economic Forum’s conference
Tuesday, 21 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
We are at the brink of causing irreversible damage to our mother earth. It is costing our economy trillion dollars in damage every year. We are at the risk of
Tuesday, 21 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
With such an attractive opportunity presented to private companies, will SDG 5 (gender equality) be the first to be achieved by 2030? Well if you are like me and you
Monday, 20 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
Davos 2020 kicks off today. For its 50th anniversary, World Economic Forum (WEF) decided its theme for Davos was going to be “Stakeholders for Cohesive and Sustainable World”. With so much
Wednesday, 08 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
With youth climate activists like Greta Thunberg, Leah Namugerwa, Ridhima Pandey, Xiye Bastida taking the centre stage, I thought this year’s COP, aka COP25, would finally address critical climate issues in a meaningful way. Did
Responsible Consumption and Production
Wednesday, 08 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
As reported by EPI in 2018, the top 5 sustainable countries in the world are.   Switzerland France Denmark Malta Sweden  If a developing country is looking to be more sustainable,
Wednesday, 08 January 2020 / Published in Blogs
A common dialogue surrounding sustainable development goals (SDGs) is promoting the use of clean and renewable energy. However, there are 17 SDGs and bringing affordable and clean energy is only one of them.