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My year of buying almost nothing saved me thousands of dollars – but also taught me valuable lessons as a teacher, including about the benefits of failure.
Companies that want to reduce their environmental footprint need to ensure their entire workforce feels a shared sense of purpose.
Identifying and overcoming barriers to equitable participation in social and economic life can improve the well-being of coastal communities.
The Indonesian government has been distributing funds for village development. In 2019, the money can also be used for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Non-living nature such as rocks, landforms, soil and water form the Earth’s ‘geodiversity’ - a crucial part of the planet’s life support system.
What happens when a leader’s beliefs and decisions have an indirect negative impact on the business?
A fairer, greener and more prosperous Australia is possible – so long as political leaders don’t focus just on economic growth.
The aim is to reduce maternal deaths, address the unmet need for family planning and end gender-based violence by 2030.
Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill?
Research shows that abuse, violence and poor relationships in families may have dire consequences for society, and specifically children.
Child poverty has important psychological and social consequences. This means solutions need to cover very many different angles.
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Cloud computing can play a crucial role in helping African countries reach sustainable development.
Africa has already felt the effects of Donald Trump’s climate change denialism. Recent events are also raising political issues of keen interest among the continent’s democrats.
Australia has a moral duty to engage with the global challenge of providing quality education to hundreds of millions of Indian youth over the next 20 years.
While not all men are willing to become involved in women and children’s health, some situations force them take on ‘women’s work’.
If African countries can get the fundamentals right, cloud computing could become a powerful ally in the push for sustainable development.
Science academies have a crucial role to play in developing ways for scientists to engage more effectively.
African countries need to take into account the effects environmental changes, like climate change, have on their ability to deal with food security, poverty reduction and lowering mortality rates.
The IMF has increasingly turned its focus to growing inequality worldwide. Ironically, research shows that policy reforms it mandated exacerbated income inequalities.
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John Thwaites is a Friend of The Conversation.Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Chair of Policy Innovation, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Thomas Wiedmann is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Sustainability Research, UNSW
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Associate Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Development Economics, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland