Following current environmental trends, sustainability has become a prominent social concern for businesses, but how does this translate to the strategies of large corporations?
Category: Money & Business
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SDG 8
Courses tagged with "SDG 8"
How can small and medium-sized enterprises make the radical changes required to tackle the Climate Emergency?
Category: Money & Business
This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to shift the balance back to a value based approach to doing development. It will be rich with the voices of the poor and advocate for a particular approach to development, namely adaptive management. The course will be open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently.
Category: Leadership & Management
Acting alone is as important as acting together.
Category: Economics
It might seem daunting but there are lots of steps we can take as individuals to reduce our digital carbon footprint. We can help you make a start.
Category: Nature & Environment
Corporations have a significant role to play in reducing the digital carbon footprint. This article examines the challenges faced and how much can be done to overcome them.
Category: Nature & Environment
With many people preferring to work from home, whether hybrid or full time, this article examines the carbon footprint cost of remote working.
Category: Nature & Environment
This free course, Financial methods in environmental decisions, begins by introducing some of the tools that can be used to assess the benefits of investment decisions, including ways of assessing the ‘external costs’ – the wider costs and benefits to society as a whole – of environmental decisions.
Category: Nature & Environment
Ann Grand, Lecturer in Astrobiology Education, interviews Shonil Bhagwat, Professor of Environment and Development, on the intersections between his work on environment and international development and astrobiology.
Category: Astrobiology
This free course, Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts, aims to describe what goes into making and selling t-shirts. Which resources, which markets, who is involved, the income people get, the income and value they create are all discussed.
You will explore these questions at different stages of the production of a t-shirt, and you'll use concepts from economics such as 'supply chains' or 'value added' to answer them. The course will be described using data. You should think about key
numbers and data which help constructing evidence of how a t-shirt is produced, from raw cotton to our wardrobe.
You will explore these questions at different stages of the production of a t-shirt, and you'll use concepts from economics such as 'supply chains' or 'value added' to answer them. The course will be described using data. You should think about key
numbers and data which help constructing evidence of how a t-shirt is produced, from raw cotton to our wardrobe.
Category: Society, Politics & Law