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Purpose
This study aims to offer a mid-range theory conceptualization of factors central to understanding and facilitating business actor engagement (BAE). Reports on a study of real estate companies and their sustainable development goal (SDG) driven business initiatives. The aim is to identify the factors that need to be in place to facilitate positive engagement amongst actors in business-to-business (B2B) settings.


Design/methodology/approach
A case study of real estate companies (landlords of business premises) and their business customers (tenants of offices and warehouses) – comprising interviews and workshops – offer insights related to the factors that need to be in place to facilitate BAE types and outcomes.


Findings
The identified central factors of BAE – needed to understand and facilitate positive engagement to unfold – are the actors' perception of: willingness (to act), resourcefulness (to contribute and solve issues) and influence (to affect decisions) regarding solutions related to the business initiative at hand. Failing to facilitate these factors may result in negative outcomes of BAE where "engagement" merely constitutes perceived obligations and responsibilities.


Research limitations/implications
The study offers theoretical and managerial insights on how to manage the factors needed for BAE. It also sheds light on how actors can use SDG-driven business initiatives to achieve sustainability goals.


Originality/value
It contributes to the concept of BAE, by emphasizing the dynamics of engagement, from the motivational and behavioral dimensions specific to B2B settings. It offers insights how to managerially cogovern rather than control BAE. It presents central factors needed to include and capacitate customers, facilitating successful implementations of SDG-driven business initiatives to reduce absent or negative outcomes.

While trade can greatly contribute to providing more education opportunities in the development world, its potential has not been fully exploited so far. This paper examines how international trade can help increase supply of and investment in higher education, thereby enhancing access and quality in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). First, the paper examines the changing dynamics in the higher education sector and how these have spurred reforms in education systems and novel ways of delivering educational services. These factors, which include demand-side factors, reforms in government funding, technological developments, and the rise of global value chains (GVCs), have prompted mixed policies which increasingly regard foreign providers as prospective partners. Whereas these trends point toward the internationalization of education services, the role of trade agreements and their potential contribution to the SDGs have barely been explored. Therefore, the second part of the paper examines how trade agreements can help facilitate trade in education services and the flexibility they provide for attaining social policy objectives. International trade agreements can help attract foreign providers and foreign direct investment (FDI) in education by reducing barriers to entry, levelling the playing field among providers, and providing a predictable and transparent regulatory environment. At the same time, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) can support and complement the development of appropriate policy and regulatory frameworks to accompany market opening and promote the SDG goals of ensuring inclusive and quality education. Overall, a balance will need to be struck between opening trade in education and addressing regulatory challenges with a view to fostering coherence among policy objectives in support of the SDGs.

Abstract
While the 2030 agenda addresses the United Nation member states primarily at their national levels, municipalities play a crucial role in implementing all of the 17 SDGs and many of the 169 targets. These processes must be monitored and evaluated. However, the UN indicators are not sufficiently applicable to the local context. Therefore, a multi-stakeholder working group was formed in Germany to develop a comprehensive set of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for municipalities, together with additional instruments to support local SDG monitoring such as an SDG data portal. The first catalogue which included 47 core SDG indicators was published in 2018. According to consecutive evaluations and practical tests, the indicator set was substantially expanded and revised to a final number of 120 SDG indicators. About half of the 120 indicators are provided with local-level data and the other half must be assessed individually for comprehensive local SDG monitoring. Likewise, accompanying tools were relaunched with additional functionalities. Although this new and unique set of indicators now covers a majority of the municipally relevant targets, there are still some decisive monitoring gaps for various reasons. The strengths and weaknesses of our methodological approach, as well as implications for future research and practical developments, are discussed.

Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management is an important legal instrument in the aspect of environmental protection and management which is then manifested by the Batam City Government and related policy stakeholders in the form of legal products, namely Batam City Regional Regulation Number 4 of 2016 concerning Protection and Management of the Environment and Batam City Regional Regulation Number 4 of 2017 concerning the Implementation of Regional Health which is the commitment of the Batam City Government and related policy makers to protect, protect and preserve the environment so that it can become a good and healthy. For research in this writing, using normative research methods, which are based on written regulations, literature study that examines aspects of theory, as well as legal explanations. And the results of this study indicate that Regional Regulations related to Environmental Protection and Management as well as Health Implementation This community can encourage the achievement of the Suistainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is impressive in its breadth. However, the extensive nature of the agenda presents countries with a set of challenges. In particular, few if any countries will be able to focus on all goals in parallel, yet the agenda offers little clear guidance on how each country can determine their priority areas of focus and funding arrangements for such priority areas. Presently, few efforts have been made to analyse and examine the significance or importance of each sustainable development goal (SDG) and target for individual countries. More importantly, there is the challenge that governments would need to find the finances to fund the goals. Inevitably, politicians and policy makers in financially constrained countries are asking: what levers can we actually use to implement the SDGs efficiently and effectively? In this paper, we develop a simple framework that can help countries in leveraging existing budget resources to guide funding for the implementation of SDGs.

Suku Karen, yang berasal dari cabang kelompok etnis Kayan Burma, kini menjadi bagian terbesar dari populasi etnis dataran tinggi Thailand. Suku tersebut telah bermigrasi ke seluruh perbatasan pegunungan Thailand-Myanmar, sebagai dampak dari konflik bersenjata antara nasionalis Karen dan pemerintah Burma sejak 1950-an dan ketika proses demokrasi tersendat di Myanmar. Dalam dua dekade terakhir, jumlah orang Karen yang bermigrasi ke Chiang Rai telah meningkat karena industri baru pariwisata suku di provinsi tersebut. Namun bagi masyarakat Thailand, masyarakat suku pegunungan masih dianggap makhluk asing, namun mau tak mau, keberadaan mereka harus diintegrasikan ke dalam masyarakat Thailand. Oleh karena itu, pemerintah Thailand mengeluarkan kartu identitas khusus untuk suku pegunungan yang mengidentifikasi mereka sebagai orang dari etnis minoritas, namun bukan warga negara Thailand. Saat ini ada tiga kategori untuk mengakui orang suku pegunungan di Thailand berdasarkan resolusi Kabinet dan undang-undang yang disahkan untuk mencerminkan tingkat penerimaan negara atas status kewarganegaraan. Namun, kebijakan ini membawa makna yang kontradiktif, terutama dalam hal hak kewarganegaraan dan pemenuhan SDGs bagi suku pegunungan. Penelitian ini berfokus pada perempuan Karen "leher panjang" yang tinggal di tambon Nanglae, Amphoe Mueang Chiang Rai, bernama Kayan Lahwi, atau Padaung, sub-kelompok dari Karen Merah. Tujuan utama penelitian ini adalah untuk secara khusus melihat dampak undang-undang kewarganegaraan Thailand terhadap keberlanjutan sosial-ekonomi perempuan Padaung Karen yang tinggal di tambon Nanglae, Amphoe Mueang, Chiang Rai, saat ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan menggunakan data literatur, wawancara, dan observasi partisipan untuk mengumpulkan informasi. Hasil penelitian mengungkap masalah yang masih menjadi tantangan bagi perempuan suku Padaung Karen di Chiang Rai untuk mencapai target pembangunan keberlanjutan (SDG) dalam pendapatan (SDG 1), ketahanan pangan (SDG 2), kesehatan (SDG 3), dan pendidikan (SDG 4) bagi komunitas mereka.

For the last 20 years, the international development debate has been dominated by two trends that seem at first to be heading in a similar direction. However, under closer scrutiny they differ with respect to their focus and underlying philosophies. These are on the one hand the agenda of reducing poverty in developing countries in its various dimensions (lack of income, education, water, political participation etc.) that found their expression in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). On the other hand, there is the idea of sustainability that became popular at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and that at the Rio+20 summit in 2012 generated a parallel concept to the MDGs: the so called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Two independent UN working groups will soon be created: One to discuss whether there should be a new global development agenda after the term of the MDGs ends in 2015, and what such an agenda should entail; the other is to compile a list of possible SDGs. This raises the question what happens if these separate processes actually result in two differing sets of goals, and if it might still be possible to merge the poverty and sustainability agendas. Both agendas have a lot in common, but in contrast to the MDGs, the proponents of SDGs see poverty as merely one of a number of global issues to be addressed, which again makes those in favour of the MDGs afraid that poverty reduction will become secondary in an SDG agenda as just one item among many others. On the other hand, the pro-SDG side criticises the MDGs for having a too narrow concept of development and giving immediate results preference over socially, economically and ecologically sustainable ones. Both are valid concerns, and thus it is important to find a solution that takes them both into account, while still satisfying the interests of countries around the world. In this case it is helpful to highlight a rather technical aspect: The majority of the MDGs refer to improvements in the wellbeing of individuals, they are thus final goals of human development (education, health, access to water) to be measured at the micro-level. The SDG agenda also involves such goals (clean air, biodiversity), but also ones that refer to the preservation or establishment of global public goods (limiting climate change, financial stability) that can thus only be measured through macroindicators. The latter are not objectives, but preconditions for sustainable development that for reasons of consistency should not enter into one agenda with final goals. Some of these are already addressed by MDG 8 (among them a fair financial and world trade system). If one were to create two separate but mutually referring agendas for the future beyond 2015 – one concentrating on human development, the other on global public goods – it might be possible to address the most serious concerns of the proponents of either pure MDGs or pure SDGs.

As an International Non-Governmental Organization, AIESEC Bandung is supporting the achievement of SDGs. There are various activities of AIESEC Bandung, both internship programs and social projects that have an impact on achieving SDGs. In addition, AIESEC Bandung has carried out internships and social projects long before the SDGs were issued. After the SDGs were issued, AIESEC Bandung then included SDGs goals and targets relevant to the AIESEC Bandung social project. Based on the results of interviews and literature studies, it can be seen that there are various social projects in AIESEC Bandung that help achieve SDGs, such as the Sampurasun, I Green, Social Entrepreneur, Impacting, Malala and I Care for Disabled projects. Both project participants and project partners feel the positive results of these social projects. The activities of AIESEC Bandung which continue to take place every year also make this activity sustainable. Even so, there are still many improvements that must be improved by AIESEC Bandung to support the achievement of SDGs, such as social project sustainability issues, difficulties in finding partners and the absence of cooperation with the government.

Sustainable Development Goals were started by United Nations in the General Assembly of 2015 to transform World into a sustainable place to live in. India has also accepted the SDGs as the way to enhance the development goals in the different sphere of the economy. In the current research work, it has been tried to review all the programmes and policies started by the Government of India in order to bring the change in the development model by enhancing it. How far India has been successful in doing that is the matter of concern and that has been discussed here in the research article. The review of different programmes related to SDGs started since 2015 has been highlighted along with the scope for the future.

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendefinisikan konsep Green Economy dalam mengimplementasikan ke arah pencapaian pertumbuhan ekonomi hijau (green growth) dan Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) dengan memperhatikan tiga aspek yaitu aspek politik, aspek sosial dan aspek ekonomi dalam mengambil sebuah kebijakan. Ulasannya berupa definisi, strategi kebijakan Green Economy, indikator pengukuran Green Economy dan implementasi green economy negara Thailand dan Ethopia yang dapat digunakan sebagai acuan dalam mengimplementasikan green economy. Sedangkan untuk negara Indonesia indikator green economy diukur dengan variabel PDB hijau dengan menambahkan biaya kerusakan lingkungan yaitu tingkat deplesi dan degradasi lingkungan.