I. Introduction During the 1990’s a new movement was born, retailers began to sell trendy, poorly made and cheap clothes as an answer to the vertiginous advance of fashion. At some point, this new business model allowed more population to have access to new and stylish clothes, bringing fashion closer. But, at the same …
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More than half of the countries in the world are commodity-dependent countries (CDDCs), meaning that at least 60% of their exports derive from commodities, primarily, from agriculture and extractive industries (carbon-intensive natural resources, minerals, ores, and metals (UNCTAD,2019, UN,2019) Commodity dependence, combined with poor governance of natural resources and commodity sectors put at risk the …
In November 2018, the Commission presented the European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy by 2050 (COM (2018) 773).It implies a significant decrease in use of the fossil carbon resources (oil and liquid gas production) by about 60 % by 2050. In order to preserve the global competitiveness of the …
On the role of a Circular Bioeconomy in the EU’s 2050 decarbonization strategy Read More »
A hundred days have passed since protests began in Hong Kong. A hundred days since citizens went out to the streets to show their repulsion to the extradition billproposed by the Hong Kong government in February 2019, which would allow Hong Kong citizens to be extradited to Taiwan, Macau and mainland China, jurisdictions with which …
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Last year, global flows of foreign direct investment fell by 13%, to $1.3 trillion, achieved the lowest level since the global financial crisis. A modest recovery of 10% is projected in 2019. (UNCTAD, 2019) In this context, competition for international investment is increasing worldwide and sparks a boom of special economic zones (SEZs). Global tally …
The world’s largest rainforest has been burning for almost 20 days. The situation has created shock and indignation for people around the world, but the real problem has been slowly increasing for the past 30 years due to a long and fast-moving deforestation phenomenon. Although there are still no figures of the magnitude of the …
Sustainable development assumes a fundamental transition to a new economic paradigm, built on an inclusive, holistic and a long-term view of the economic well-being that should be achieved through higher levels of economic production, inclusive and sustainable industrialization, economic diversification and technological upgrading. Such a fundamental transition requires a series of connected transformations of socio-technical …
Implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, achieving the SDGs, assumes a transition from our petroleum-based linear economy to the climate-neutral circular economy paradigm. The goals of this transition are: (i) building a more innovative, inclusive and low-emissions economy through modernizing the existing and developing new supply chains and business models; (ii) reducing our …
Estimates reveal that up to US$7trn a year is needed to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Public finance is not sufficient to meet this demand. There is a pressing need to attract private capital in order to close a larger part of the US$2.5 trillion annual gap in financing the SDGs (UNCTAD, 2015). If met, …
On the role of the Securities Regulators in supporting the Sustainable Development goals Read More »
Sustainable investing has been perceived as sacrificing some financial return is the belief that fiduciary duty means focusing only on returns—thereby ignoring ESG factors that can affect them, particularly over time. However, more recent legal opinions and regulatory guidelines make it clear that it is a violation of fiduciary duty not to consider such factors. …
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