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Business and the sustainable development goals

10 March 2017

  • Children playing

    Chinese toy factories open summer camp for migrant workers' children

    The ICTI Care scheme aims to improve family lives of those making products for Disney, Mattel and Toys R Us

24 February 2017

  • Offshore wind turbine

    Quiz: how much do you know about the sustainable development goals?

    Business has been accused of ignoring the UN’s sustainable development goals, despite its key role in achieving them. Test your knowledge of the SDGs.

23 February 2017

  • Woman cooking

    Illegal logging in Malawi: can clean cooking stoves save its forests?

    Efficient cooking stoves could prove a more effective way to protect forests and stem illegal logging than the army

14 February 2017

  • Children reading a book

    Childcare companies using profits to subsidise fees in low-income areas

    Nursery providers in Nairobi are helping to train childminders, while in Bogotá and São Paulo they are using wealthier communities to subsidise fees

13 February 2017

  • Entrepreneurs in a Yangon office

    'A company of my own': the rise of Myanmar's tech pioneers

    A new generation of startups are tackling some of the country’s toughest problems, from heavy traffic to high maternal mortality rates

9 February 2017

  • Money transfer customer uses fingerprint scanner

    Fingerprint payments prompt privacy fears in India

    After India’s banknote ban, private companies are using the country’s biometric database to bring financial services to millions

2 February 2017

  • Catherine Makie, 27, sews bow ties for European and US markets in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. Photo: Anna Dubuis

    Can Kenya break the global fashion industry's low-wage model?

    The textile industry is the second largest employer in developing countries, but most artisans are trapped in domestic markets with no links to international trade

23 January 2017

  • Students use BRCK's Kio Kit in a simulated school classroom in Nairobi

    Kenya's tech startups trial digital classrooms in drive for literacy

    With limited internet access and regular power outages in schools, will digital education companies transform learning in east Africa?

17 January 2017

  • Salt deposits at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

    Electric car boom fuels interest in Bolivia’s fragile salt flats

    Demand for the metal used in electric car batteries has surged. But extraction could threaten the fragile ecosystem of the world’s largest salt flat

10 January 2017

  • Croton nuts in in farmer's hands

    'This is our future' – Kenya's croton tree touted as new biofuels crop

    Will the legacy of biofuel’s failure in Kenya prevent croton oil from transforming the industry?

22 December 2016

  • Bottles of Pepsi

    PepsiCo takes on Coca-Cola with Latin American water plan

    Unlike its US rival, PepsiCo promises to return water to the watershed from which it was taken in countries including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala

14 December 2016

  • Two school children walk through a slum

    Should business play a greater role in the SDGs? – Read what happened in our live Q&A

    Catch up on the highlights from our live debate on how businesses can help the sustainable development goals

12 December 2016

  • The Tana River

    ​‘I can’t abandon my land’: the livelihoods threatened by Kenya’s Tana river​ plans​

    Kenya’s plans for a 3km-long dam and a £28bn transportation corridor including a new port city in Lamu have led to fears about erosion and pollution

11 December 2016

  • Women making charcoal briquettes using coconut shells and charcoal dust

    Cleaning up charcoal's dirty image in Kenya – in pictures

    Demand for charcoal in sub-Saharan Africa is surging. While foreign investors focus on renewables, domestic companies are finding ways to make it cleaner and more efficient

2 December 2016

  • Sunlabob solar panels Myanmar

    Off-grid solar to help Myanmar bring electricity to all by 2030

    In a country where only 16% of rural homes have power a government-led scheme is bringing electricity to thousands of villages

20 November 2016

  • Baby in an incubator wearing a Bempu bracelet

    Baby bracelet aims to save newborns in India from hypothermia

    The 8m babies born prematurely every year in India are at risk of hypothermia. A Bangalore startup has invented a bracelet to protect them

15 November 2016

  • Waves break into the anti-tsunami barriers

    Drought, floods and water stress cost companies $14bn

    A survey of 600 global companies released at the Marrakech climate change conference shows they are still not doing enough to mitigate water risks

11 November 2016

  • Google tax avoidance

    Companies should be forced to say how much tax they pay and where

    Sasja Beslik
    Hopes for global tax regulation are unrealistic but tax transparency, as a condition of market access for multinationals, could happen now

25 October 2016

  • E coli bacteria

    Antibiotic waste is polluting India and China's rivers; big pharma must act

    Alejandro Litovsky
    Pollution from drugs factories, many in India and China, is causing the spread of anti-microbial resistance. Pharma companies are under pressure to act

21 October 2016

  • Cambodian garment workers and human rights activists at a rally in Phnom Penh

    Report praising companies on human rights criticised as whitewash

    New report from the Charities Aid Foundation and the LSE says companies are promoting human rights but has been criticised by human rights organisations
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