Who really cares about the SDGs when it comes to nobody’s responsibility?
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
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Jun 30, 2022
Environmentally sound and financially rewarding? Key findings from an exploratory study on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)
By Milena Bar, Ottilia Henningsson, & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ The Science-Based Targets initiative aligns firms’ emission reduction targets with a...
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May 30, 2022
Foodback Loop: Developing Sustainable Food Systems for a Circular Society
By Bruna Carvalho and Lucia Reisch ◦ 4 min read ◦ The Sixth IPCC Assessment Report warns that crops are more frequently lost due to...
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Apr 25, 2022
No Trees, No Future: How can we unlock the full potential of conservation finance?
By Dr. Kristjan Jespersen, Dr. Izabela Delabre, Dr. Caleb Gallemore, and Dr. Katryn Pasaribu ◦ 3 min read ◦ Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates, with 12 million hectares...
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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...
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...