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BUILDING BRIDGES: Where finance meets the SDGs

“All the bridges that have been built to connect our societies are now being taken down,” Canadian “geofuturist” Abishur Prashak recently declared in The G|O. Well, new ones are also being built right here. The second “Building Bridges” summit will open on Monday. A joint initiative between the Geneva

#13 SUSTAINED By The G|O - Thursday, November 18 2021

#13 SUSTAINED By The G|O - Thursday, November 18 2021

This is an onsite, slightly edited republication of the complete SUSTAINED - THE SDGS DECODED newsletter of November 18th, 2021 Friends, Today in the G|O’s SUSTAINED-The SDGs Decoded: Why did Geneva lose the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) bid to Frankfurt? High hopes that the body—considered key

#12 SUSTAINED By The G|O - Wednesday, November 3rd 2021

#12 SUSTAINED By The G|O - Wednesday, November 3rd 2021

This is an onsite, slightly edited republication of the complete SUSTAINED - THE SDGS DECODED newsletter of November 3rd, 2021 Is humanity on the brink of global water conflicts? In December 2020, water became publicly traded on the stock market. For Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human

#9 SUSTAINED By The G|O - Wednesday September 15, 2021

#9 SUSTAINED By The G|O - Wednesday September 15, 2021

This is an onsite, slightly edited republication of the complete SUSTAINED - THE SDGS DECODED newsletter of September 15th, 2021 As Finance everywhere is moving towards sustainability, it is simultaneously attracting scrutiny from regulators, who are determined not to let the financial industry get away with misrepresentation. As we reported

A New Momentum to Promote Human Rights in Business

A New Momentum to Promote Human Rights in Business

Promoting accountability for human rights violations through legally binding instruments.

Concerns the COVID-19 economic shock could trigger a crisis in the global financial system

This is an onsite edited excerpt of the G|O Briefing newsletter “A financial crisis is a bank run writ large, a run on the entire financial system. People lose confidence that their money is safe—whether they’re stockholders or bondholders, institutional investors, or elderly widows—so they pull

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