Sustainability in 2017 – Looking back Sustainable Development Goals Business and the financial sector increased – well above expectations – the strength, scale and pace of the support to the SDGs in 2017. The SDG Business Forumwas held for the first time at the famous and humbling UN General Assembly Hall at the UN HQ in […]

Sustainable Development Goals: Two Years On – International Conference Article by Marcio Viegas, founder and managing director, SUST4IN It is now clear that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an enormous business opportunity and responsibility. New reports from the UN Global Compact and the WBCSD show that business understand the opportunity, but real action is

Sustainable Development Goals: Two Years On – International Conference The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are now in the agenda of a growing number of serious companies and investors The SDGs are a moral imperative and more concretely a business opportunity, but urgent action and innovation are needed. Madrid, 27 September 2017. Two years ago, the

SUST4IN and ICEX bring innovative financial instruments to companies to mitigate climate change Opportunities offered by green bonds and green loans in the second conference co-organized between SUST4IN and ICEX, the Spanish Export and Investment Institute SUST4IN, in collaboration with ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, organized the “II Climate Finance Conference: Green Bonds and other

Leveraging Design Thinking to boost the Sustainable Development Design Thinking facilitates the implementation of sustainability strategies and accelerates the related change-management processes in large organizations. It provides support in order for all the people involved to contribute to the organization’s objectives. It is also a powerful approach to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability challenges:

International Conference on Climate Finance and Green Bonds: summary Madrid, 18 July. SUST4IN, in collaboration with ICEX Spain Trade and Investment,  has organized the conference “Climate finance instruments: opportunities around green  bonds” in order to provide first-hand information on innovative climate finance instruments  and specifically green bonds, with practical cases. The session was opened by the Director of Business Internationalisation ICEX, Isaac  Martin Barbero,

A circular economy is a necessity, namely in europe Summary of the II Life Cycle Assessment and Circular Economy International Conference, organized by SUST4IN and the Forum for Sustainability through Innovation Life Cycle (FSLCI) in Madrid this week. Keynote speech by the MEP and former Minister of Environment of Finland Siri Pietikäinen, rapporteur of the

Water: increasingly important for investors More than 600 investors demand information on corporate water management before ​30 June 44 companies with operations in Spain have responded to the CDP Water last year The true value of water is not measured by its direct cost, rather by its risks Madrid, 17 March. SUST4IN, the experts on sustainability, have organized

Sustainability bonds international conference: summary Sustainabilty bonds: more than 2,000 million euros already issued in Spain The Sustainability Bonds International Conference was held today in Madrid, organized by SUST4IN in conjunction with the Climate Bonds Initiative The great demand from responsible investors explains the growth of green bonds and social bonds The ICO (Instituto de

Climate change, carbon pricing and business strategy: 4 disrupting questions Climate change is already transforming – and killing – business models and, more critically, lives. The last three weeks have been full of climate change news and signals, namely coming from businesses and governments gathered in Paris and Barcelona at different meetings: most of them