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Sustainable Transformation: La-Z-Boy Leading the Way

In our latest client spotlight, we delve into the remarkable journey of La-Z-Boy, a name synonymous with comfort and quality in the furniture industry. La-Z-Boy's commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship, under the guidance of its dedicated team, sets a benchmark in corporate responsibility.

Today, we're thrilled to share an insightful conversation with Amy Vernon, La-Z-Boy’s Director of Sustainability, ESG and Global Product Compliance, who has played a pivotal role in steering the company’s sustainability initiatives.

Amy's insights highlight the transformative power of a focused ESG strategy. La-Z-Boy's journey showcases how targeted solutions can lead to impactful changes while aligning with business goals.

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https://www.esgflo.com/blog-articles/sustainable-transformation-la-z-boy-leading-the-way

Dear colleagues,
I'm glad to share the paper attached also available online by the weblink provided. This is about Life Cycle Thinking implementation into SMEs based on a set of simple management tools that can be easily replicated by stakeholders and interested audiences from this group. Please feel free to spread out the message and share the paper with your partners. I'm also open to discussing it if you have any queries.

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UNESCO Greening Education Partnership is a global initiative that takes a whole-of-system approach to support countries to tackle climate crisis by harnessing the critical role of education. As a collaborative platform for governments and other stakeholders including inter-governmental organizations, civil society, youth, academia, and private sector, Greening Education Partnership aims to deliver strong, coordinated and comprehensive action that will prepare every learner to acquire the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes to tackle climate change and to promote sustainable development.. They have a newsletter that can be subscribed to and you can join the partnership from this site.

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https://www.unesco.org/en/sustainable-development/education/greening-future

Landscapes of Climate Innovations details numerous climate solutions with a goal to provide reliable, equally accessible, and affordable energy without contributing to climate change, that will reduce emissions in many sectors, reduce energy consumption, decrease and alter demand, and change the nature and distribution of energy usage. Check out this valuable resource!

*This post is from the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development*

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https://www.lens.org/lens/landscape

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network released the 9th edition of the Sustainable Development Report in June 2024. It includes not only the SDG Index and Dashboards, but also a new index of countries' support for UN-based multilateralism covering all 193 UN Member States and new pathways for how to achieve sustainable food and land systems by mid-century. Perhaps most importantly, five strategies to address the chronic shortfalls in SDG financing are identified and discussed, along with other priorities to meet the challenges of the 21st century and achieve sustainable development.

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https://mailchi.mp/unsdsn.org/your-feedback-requested-2022-global-commons-stewardship-index-524360?e...

The Global Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series began in March 2020 and each session was driven by audience demand and oriented to equip city practitioners with best practices to save lives. Since its inception, the speaker series has hosted sessions at least once per month, covering various topics from refugees to water, from schools to leadership, and from housing to food systems.

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https://resilientcitiesnetwork.org/category/cities-on-the-frontline/

Dear colleagues,
I'm glad to share this paper we published last week reporting on using the I-GO Assistant tool powered by the GGKP to promote the Circular Economy in SMEs in Brazil. The text is in Portuguese, but you can easily translate it.
The idea was put into practice with the I-GO Assistant tool used by a small group of industrial engineering students that I supervise, and the resource efficiency results showed a potential for increasing up to 10% of the circularity of an SME company in the short term with almost no additional investments. Hope this approach can be valuable to replicate abroad among your institutions and countries too.

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https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ProdutoProducao/article/view/138311

This April 2024 newsletter published by the International Energy Agency reviews the clean energy technology growing on the market, including batteries , clean cooking in Africa, and electric cars

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This article, published in Nature Africa in February 2024, details the many uncertainties in Africa over grid stability, finances, and political will in the move to clean energy. Howeverm it can also be the source of solutions, such as in the case of a hybrid network of solar and wind mini-grids has been funded by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, in a remote area north-east of Africa’s Lake Victoria.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-024-00054-5?utm_medium=paid_social&utm_source=faceboo...

Help to advance the participation of women and marginalized communities. Explore the Equal by 30 Campaign, joint Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) and International Energy Agency (IEA) initiative which works to accelerate gender equality and diversity in clean energy transitions and close the gender gap by 2030.

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https://www.equalby30.org/