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Human Rights in 2023: Five key priorities for businesses. Human rights have become an integral part of the discussion amongst policymakers and business leaders and 2023 is a turning point. Ksapa CEO Farid Baddache and Senior Consultant Krystel Bassil look into the many factors driving businesses towards implementing human rights policies and that hold them accountable by making such commitments public.

Human Rights in 2023: Five key priorities for businesses

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Ksapa CEO Farid Baddache & Snr Consultant Krystel Bassil look into the factors driving businesses towards human rights policies in 2023.

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Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic, a CoBS Research Pod based on the work of Prof. Daniel Malan, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Related research: The Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer: Leadership imperatives in an ESG-driven world, World Economic Forum White Paper 2022.

Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic

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Prof. Daniel Malan, Trinity Business School, with a condensed learning capsule on how to effectively implement integrity in your strategy.

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The Future of Green Jobs. What are green jobs and how can companies and organisations support and nurture them? Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO (International Labour Organization).

The Future of Green Jobs

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Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO.

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Integrity as a Dynamic for Long-term Company Performance

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Pierre Guyot, VP at John Deere, on how integrity fosters positive results for its people and its business.

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Implementing Social Technology: A CoBS Research Pod. Western ideas of development are one of the main sources of social and economic inequalities in non-industrialized countries. In this light, Professors Marlei Pozzebon and Isleide Arruda Fontenelle, FGV-EAESP, provide a 6-step model for checking and implementing technology that is beneficial, relevant, and sustainable.

Implementing Social Technology: A CoBS Research Pod

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Profs. Marlei Pozzebon and Isleide Arruda Fontenelle, FGV-EAESP, provide a 6-step model for effectively implementing social technology.

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Human rights, ESG, sustainability, modern slavery, working conditions,, green bonds, freedom of speech, LGBT, gender equality, gay rights, religious rights, supply chain. How to Embed Human Rights in SFRD Articles 8 and 9 PASI Disclosures Margaux Dillon, Senior Sustainability Consultant at Ksapa, takes us through the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation to understand how to embed human rights in impact funds.

Human Rights: Embedding them in SFRD Articles 8 and 9 PASI Disclosures

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Margaux Dillon, Senior Sustainability Consultant at Ksapa, takes us through the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation to understand how to embed human rights in impact funds.

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Sustainability Transition: Getting to the essentials. Part 2: Professor Concepción Galdón, Director of the IE Center for Social Innovation and Sustainability, rounds off the interview with José Luis Blasco, Global Head of Sustainability at Acciona, with a focus on the need for employees and firms to see how sustainability is essential and how it can positively transform their business, society, and the Planet.

Sustainability Transition: Getting to the essentials

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Part 2 of IE Prof. Concepcion Galdon’s interview with Acciona CEO José Luis Blasco on the essentials of sustainability transition.

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Business, People, and the Transition to Sustainability. José Luis Blasco, Global Head of Sustainability at Acciona, and Professor Concepción Galdón, Director of the IE Center for Social Innovation and Sustainability, discuss the steps organizations and individuals can take to push the transition toward a sustainable economy.

Business, People, and the Transition to Sustainability

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CEO José Luis Blasco and Prof. Concepción Galdón: An interview focus on business, people and the transition to sustainability.

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The New UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: A Chance for Businesses to Take Sustainability Action The United Nations is placing the current decade under the motto of restoring ecosystems. The topic was also in focus at the 2021 World Climate Conference in Glasgow. Tina Teucher, sustainable matchmaker, moderator, and guest expert at Ksapa, explores the background and the strategy of the new UN Decade and what it means for the business world as an important trend and opportunity

The New UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

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Tina Teucher, sustainable matchmaker and Ksapa expert, explores UN ecosystem restoration and the opportunity it gives for business.

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Business with a Wider Mission: Inclusive growth and the B4IG initiative Camille Putois, CEO of the Business For Inclusive Growth (B4IG) initiative and Professor Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, give an insight into why business with a wider mission is required and how B4IG and the CoBS work together to achieve it.

Inclusive growth and the B4IG initiative

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Inclusive growth and the B4IG initiative: Camille Putois, CEO of the Business For Inclusive Growth (B4IG) initiative and Professor Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, give an insight into why business with a wider mission is required and how B4IG and the CoBS work together to achieve it.

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