Sustainable Development

Five Stages On The Sustainability Journey

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By Vijay Kanal

Companies that are wondering about how to take their sustainability efforts to the next level may benefit from knowing that most leading sustainability companies -- particularly the larger ones -- progressed in several stages, and over a multi-year period.

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U.N. Urges Global Switch To Low-Energy Light Bulbs

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Author: Alister Doyle

The United Nations on Wednesday urged a global phase-out of old-style light bulbs and a switch to low-energy lighting that it said would save billions of dollars and combat climate change.

About 40 countries already have programs to switch from incandescent light bulbs, the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP, said in a report issued on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Cancun.

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Secretary Chu: China's Clean Energy Successes Represent a New "Sputnik Moment" for America

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At National Press Club, Energy Secretary Says Innovation is Key to America's Economic Competitiveness

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Better Sanitation Could Save 2 Million Lives A Year - Study

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  • Bad sanitation, water account for 7 percent of global disease
  • Billions of people have no access to hygienic toilets
By Kate Kelland
LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Nearly 20 percent of the world's population still defecates in the open, and action to improve hygiene, sanitation and water supply could prevent more than 2 million child deaths a year, health experts said on Monday.
 

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Human Development Report Shows Great Gains, And Some Slides

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By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

UNITED NATIONS — The world has made significant progress in income, education and health over the past 40 years, but the gains have been uneven and in some places war and the ravages of AIDS shortened life spans, according to a

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To meet UN Millennium Development Goals, fight energy poverty, report says

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The chief economist for the International Energy Agency says the international community must mobilize to target the 1.4 billion people worldwide without electricity, and to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Austria's President Heinz Fischer speaks during the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 21.

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