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Overdressed & Overstressed: The Impact of Fast Fashion on Global Sustainability

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Surveys have illustrated that consumers tend to lean towards spendthrift behaviours in the summer months. After all, with rampant sales and impending back-to-school buys, masses are encouraged to spend. However, studies have also prompted major concern about customer attitudes towards frivolous purchasing, highlighting the dangers associated with fast fashion. Here’s what you need to know […]

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Time to Take Action: The Significance of the Sustainable Development Goals

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In 2012, at the United Nations conference on Sustainable Development in Rio De Janeiro, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) were born. The objective of these goals was to set guidelines for all governments, groups and individuals to implement in order to meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges facing our planet. These goals

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THE 2018 STATE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND CSR IN THE MENA REGION

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In 2018, we decided to scan the MENA region’s performance on Sustainability. Therefore, we launched a survey targeting 1500 organisations (of which 638 responded) from 16 sectors and 18 different countries across the Middle East and North Africa. What can we learn? 31% of organisations reported having a holistic sustainability strategy (which addresses sustainability topics across the entire

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SROI TRAINING PROGRAM FOR PVR NEST TEAM IN INDIA

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Sustainable square India Team conducted a Training Program on Social Return on Investments (SROI) for PVR Nest Team (PVR Group) and their NGO partners(Umeed, ReadIndia and AtPar in Delhi on April 5th & 6th, 2019.  Social Return on Investment (SROI) is an outcomes-based measurement tool that helps organisations to understand and quantify the social, environmental

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THE NEXT GENERATION OF SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT MEASUREMENT PRACTICES

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It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.  Charles Darwin Does your organisation have a robust and actionable sustainability impact measurement practice? This benchmarking exercise of different impact measurement practices will give you some perspectives to chose the most suitable impact measurement practices that

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SUSTAINABLE SQUARE INDIA: “HOW DO WE STAND OUT IN A CROWDED CSR ENVIRONMENT?”

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Five years later, since the mandate of the 2% Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spending per company, We notice that the concept of CSR (or social investment) has not reached the level of maturity needed for the market to progress further. Despite the push in laws and regulatory intervention the term CSR is still widely interpreted

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THE OPPORTUNITIES OF MAINSTREAMING SOCIAL IMPACT MEASUREMENT IN JAPAN

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Article objectives: To find out how social impact measurement can address social issues in Japan. To explore a local case study of social impact measurement. To suggest other countries in Asia can learn from Japan’s approach to social impact measurement. The practice of social impact measurement was officially introduced in Japan with the formation of

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