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How do we think about sustainable investing? Suggestions from an exploratory study

By Margherita Massazza & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 4 min read ◦ From the outset, this blog post takes the perspective that behavioral finance is...

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...

EU proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence for human rights and the environment

Advancing responsible business conduct, but failing to consider key functional challenges for remedy By Karin Buhmann ◦ 9 min read ◦ Why is the proposal...

How do we find the green elephant in the classroom?

By Lavinia Cristina Iosif-Lazar, Jens Riemer and Caroline A. Pontoppidan “Environmental sustainability to be at the core of EU education and training systems” –...

Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption

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Sep 4, 2020

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

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Jun 10, 2020

By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...

How the pandemic can reset cities and transform aspects of urban mobility

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May 18, 2020

By Isabel Froes Cities are hard and complex systems. With their defined policies, grids and routes, they offer limited space for experimentation, with a...

How to make food systems more resilient: Try Behavioural Food Policies

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May 7, 2020

By Lucia A. Reisch The vision of healthy and sustainable food systems that facilitate appropriate food choices by individuals is gaining momentum in practice...

Normalizing Sustainability

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Mar 18, 2020

By John Robinson, University of Toronto We often hear the argument that, given the urgency of climate change and sustainability concerns, significant changes to...

Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Go Big or Go Home?

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Mar 12, 2020

By Laura Krumm In recent years, news on issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and plastic pollution was almost inescapable. At least in...