This week’s topics
Global Sustainability Agendas and National Implementation
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Paris Climate Agreement
- National regulatory frameworks
- Compliance versus voluntary adoption
- think ahead: COP28 Expectations and the Role of Business
- Lecture 58: ESG and SDG
- Week 1-Lecture 2 : Evolution of Sustainable Development
- In Pursuit of a More Human World Economy
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Evaluate the global sustainability agenda and how it relates to national practice.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate the global sustainability agenda and how it relates to national practice.
Study materials
Videos
- think ahead: COP28 Expectations and the Role of Business · YouTube · London Business School · 36 min · for registered students
- In Pursuit of a More Human World Economy · YouTube · TU Delft · 22 min · for registered students
- Green industrial policy: balancing national goals and global integration | LSE Festival · YouTube · LSE · 57 min · for registered students
- Financing the SDGs: can the world avoid failure? | LSE Online Event · YouTube · LSE · 75 min · for registered students
- Perspectives on Sustainability Disclosure: The business case for early jurisdictional adoption · YouTube · IFRS Foundation · 43 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Guide to Corporate Sustainability: Shaping a Sustainable Future (UN Global Compact, 2014) · PDF · Un, guidance; 48 pages · for registered students
- Business Ethics, ch. 4.2: Sustainability – business and the environment · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–103 · for registered students
- Exploring Business, ch. 16: The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 870–940 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
