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Minimising red tape: Companies to get help implementing new sustainability standards
A joint press release from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)
Read Post“Conservation nearly always means climate protection”
As Director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt am Main, Professor Katrin Böhning-Gaese explores the coexistence of people and nature. In our interview she explains why the loss of biodiversity is a threat to humans and how we can rescue nature.
Read PostThe DNS – a plan to secure Germany’s long-term future
A revised version of the German Sustainable Development Strategy (DNS) is set to be published at the end of the year. As a partner in the update process, the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) is determined to make the DNS more binding, more systematic – and more focused on what comes after 2030.
Read PostA pact for the future
The United Nations has big plans for the Summit of the Future in September 2024. A Pact for the Future aims to smooth the waters between the member states and, above all, give the 2030 Agenda a boost. Now the first draft has been published and the tussle begins.
Read PostHeat-Map about Principal Adverse Impact Indicators (PAIs)
DRSC/RNE pilot group "SME Reporting" presents contribution to the discussion on indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability aspects, the Principal Adverse Impact Indicators (PAI) for sustainability reporting by SMEs.
Read PostCOP28 must continue to push global climate financing despite multiple crises!
Members of the German Council for Sustainable Development at COP28 in Dubai
Read PostWays out of the current crises
Initial recommendations of the German Council for Sustainable Development for updating the country’s sustainable development strategy and advancing sustainability governance
Read PostSDG Summit: A question of money
The world has some catching up to do, was the overwhelming takeaway from the sustainability summit in New York. So how do we get there? The German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) calls for urgent reform of the international financial architecture.
Read PostHLPF: The international community is still off track
As every year, the High-Level Political Forum saw UN member states and NGOs convene in New York to discuss the lie of the land as the international community attempts to reach the global sustainability goals. We present the key topics that emerged for the forthcoming SDG Summit in the autumn.
Read PostRNE calls for mobilisation of global capital to hit SDGs
Further recommendations: reforming the World Bank into a transformation bank, debt relief and reforming the special drawing rights of the IMF
Read PostMidway through Agenda 2030: Global community must step up a gear
The mid-term review from the latest Global Sustainable Development Report makes sober reading. Answers are expected at the United Nations SDG Summit in New York in September.
Read PostGerman Sustainability Code hits 1,000 users
European companies are going sustainable – at least that’s the plan, as the EU aims to boost sustainability in business with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. The regulation presents challenges for many companies, but these can be overcome with the German Sustainability Code (DNK). So what is the secret to the transparency standard’s success?
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