A Southern-centered perspective on climate change in global value chains?
By Peter Lund-Thomsen ◦ 2 min read ◦ The garment and textile industries account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions, and their fast fashion approach...
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Oct 4, 2021
Why transparency may not lead straight to CSR paradise
By Dennis Schoeneborn ◦ 2 min read ◦ Business firms worldwide are increasingly engaging in practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR), a trend strongly driven also...
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Jun 30, 2021
Social impact bonds in the Nordics: insights from ‘Copenhagen Impact Investing Days 2021’
By Mikkel M. Andersen and Ferran Torres ◦ 5 min read ◦ A social impact bond (SIB) is an innovative model for public service delivery...
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Jun 22, 2021
The maker movement, the quiet, game-changing revolution near you #2
By Efthymios Altsitsiadis ◦ 5 min read ◦ One of the most overlooked and yet promising agents in the fight against climate change and towards...
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Do we need to sacrifice to mitigate climate change?
By Laura Krumm ◦ 3 min read ◦ It is not news anymore that a change of consumer behavior is needed in order to...
Counting Trees in the Hopes of Managing Forests – Technological solutions to palm oil deforestation?
By Isaac Caiger-Smith, Izabela Delabre and Kristjan Jespersen In recent years, companies dealing in global commodities – such as palm oil, soy and timber...
Sustainability claims: In what sense are they performative?
By Lars Thøger Christensen The number of products advertised as “green” or climate neutral has exploded in recent years, according to several newspaper articles....
Insecure work: rethinking precarity through Kenya’s tea plantations
By Hannah Elliott Over the last decade, the term ‘precarity’ has become ubiquitous in studies of work and labor, as jobs are increasingly characterized...
Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption
How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...
I Am What I Pledge – The importance of value alignment and crowdfunder behavior
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...
Fresh Air: An Impact Story
By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...