The Trillion Dollar Shift – Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals – Routledge

Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2019 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. Over the past 30 years, the world has seen great social improvements.Technology has been developing at an enormous pace and is helping to solve our most pressing social and environmental challenges.Yet, despite this success, our current model of development is still deeply problematic.Natural disasters triggered by climate change have doubled since the 1980s, violence and armed conflict now cost more than 13 percent of GDP, social inequality and youth unemployment is worsening around the world, and climate change threatens the global population with tremendous environmental as well as social problems.Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework, this book sets out how business and capital now have a real opportunity to help resolve these problems.With clear and plentiful examples and cases of how businesses are making a difference, relevant facts and fi