XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

  SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities The 11th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is aimed at making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. It is virtually impossible to achieve this sustainable goal without fundamentally changing the way we create and maintain our urban spaces. Cities are the pillars of growth. Business, culture, ideas, knowledge, all flourish here. Cities give residents chances to succeed financially and socially. As per the 2018 statistics, 55% of the world population resided in cities . This comes up to about 4.2 billion people, and the number is only expected to rise. It is projected to reach nearly 6.5 billion by the year 2050 . Cities and metropolitan regions also contribute about 60 per cent of global GDP . Unplanned urbanisation, however, will be harmful to national and international development as cities expand outside their established borders. But how does this impact our everyday lives, and why is it ...

  ZERO HUNGER: GOVERNMENTS, BUSINESSES AND POSSIBILITIES Harshit Sejra (BJ20140) | Madhavpreet Singh Saini (BJ20147) | Ruchi Agarwal (BJ20164) | Sneha Jain (BJ20172) | Vaibhav Sharma (BJ20178) | Vikram Bansal (BJ20181)   When the world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro and discussed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and laid the foundation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), about 165 million children were stunted due to malnutrition [1] . Current estimates show that more than 690 million people are hungry (measured by the prevalence of undernutrition) world over [2] . This makes 8.9% of the world population. What is worse is that 135 million suffer from acute hunger because of human-made conflicts, climate change and economic downturns [3] , i.e., easily avoidable reasons. Moreover, the current Covid pandemic could double this number by the end of 2020. It is in this context that the SDG 2 Zero Hunger becomes all the more critical. Realizing the extent to which h...