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Dec 11, 2019

When business is not as usual – why companies should engage with humanitarian crises

By Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho As evidenced in places such as Syria and Yemen, humanitarian crises are becoming ever more complex (OCHA, 2017a). In...

Oct 29, 2019

How sustainable is ecotourism?

Written by Erin Leitheiser, this article is based on her previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. Tourism is a...

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Oct 14, 2019

Is it a right policy to focus on SDGs during Economic Slowdown?

By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...

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Crowdfunding as a cooperative movement – The present and future of crowdfunding in Denmark

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Jun 26, 2019

By Kristian Roed Nielsen. How does crowdfunding look like in Denmark and where is it heading? Drawing on empirical data from two well-known reward-based...

Are we trying to solve climate change, or are we merely playing the “blame game” on social media with the future of the Earth at stake?

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Jun 14, 2019

By Daniel Lundgaard. The climate change debate is something that is on the minds of most people these days. The most recent elections in...

The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?

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Feb 18, 2019

By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...

Current issues in Business and Human Rights: report from the 2018 Annual Forum in Geneva

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Dec 11, 2018

By Karin Buhmann. ‘Building on what works’ was the key topic for the annual Forum on Business and Human Rights that took place in...

Feeling the Pain

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Aug 1, 2018

By Robin Porsfelt. While the recent US ’opioid crisis’ has been widely reported, a second, less recognized, crisis related to opioids has been taking...

A framework for assessing the potential of behaviour change for global decarbonisation

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Jul 16, 2018

By Kristian Steensen Nielsen Addressing climate change requires an urgent implementation of far-reaching solutions. Policy-makers and natural scientists have mainly offered supply-side solutions to...