Globalisation's impact on the environment's quality
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sustainable development goals
A key mechanism to achieve sustainable development for developing nations is integrating their local economies with the global market. However, evidence has suggested that economic globalisation might worsen the environment's quality, thus making the likelihood of reaching the UN's <anchor>sustainable development goals</anchor> doubtful. Recently it has been recognised that the development of information and communication technologies can strengthen (weaken) the potentially constructive (harmful) impacts of economic globalisation on the environment's quality. The current study has examined the moderating role of Information and communication technologies in the economic globalisation-the environment's quality nexus for 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2003 and 2020. Findings indicated that globalisation and Information and Communications Technology directly harmed the environment. In addition, the results showed that Information and communication technologies services could weaken the adverse impact of globalisation on the environment. The interaction of Information and communication technologies and economic globalization has a negative net effect on environmental quality, though this is negligible. We suggest that deploying Information and communication technologies beyond a specific level will help take advantage of globalization's opportunities without sacrificing the quality of the environment.
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# Sustainable Development Goals

axThe Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a \blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all\"."

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## Introduction

### Sustainable development goals

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development that includes 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs address global challenges including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. They are as follows:

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Goal 1: No poverty

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Goal 2: Zero hunger

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Goal 4: Quality education

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Goal 5: Gender equality

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Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

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Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy

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Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

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Goal 9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

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Goal 10: Reduced inequality

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Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Goal 13: Climate action

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Goal 14: Life below water

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Goal 15: Life on land

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Goal 16: Peace and justice strong institutions

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Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the goal

For many organizations and investors, the SDGs are an aspirational blueprint for action.

Companies today are approaching social responsibility from many different directions. They are minimizing their carbon footprint; creating a workplace where all employees can feel valued and empowered; working with customers, suppliers, and all stakeholders to ensure ESG goals are understood and acted upon, while recognizing that there is a continuing diversity of opinions and stages of development. All these activities are important in today’s world and the world we will leave to our children.

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## Foreword

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 as 17 goals to transform the world. The health-related one, number 3, on good health and well-being, requires availability and appropriate use of medical technologies, which is precisely the scope of this Clinical Engineering Handbook.

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## Multinationals’ misbehavior

### 5.4.2Sustainable development goals

An important global initiative has been the establishment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the SDGs are designed with governments in mind, firms can play an active role in their achievement (Montiel, Cuervo-Cazurra, Park, Antolin-Lopez & Husted, 2021; Sinkovics, Sinkovics & Archie-Acheampong, 2021). They provide businesses with a reference framework to manage systemic risks and respond to crises in a more proactive manner (Van Tulder, Rodrigues Mirza & Sexsmith, 2021). This initiative potentially reframes the way in which corporations see their responsibilities, while increasing expectations in society about what standards multinationals are expected to adhere to. The development of new aspirational goals to bring benefits to the public and environment, we argue, will also have implications for those perceived not to be meeting them, thus labeling these actors as misbehaving. Thus, SDGs contain the potential to generate insights for the development of a framework that associates SDGs with types of misbehavior that go against them. Moreover, while these goals are frequently hailed in the media as well as referenced by chief executives of multinationals, the broad formulation of the SDGs provides little guidance on what choices to make to best adhere to them (Economist, 2015b). International business research could inform the development of better metrics to identify international forms of misbehaving in terms of violating SDGs, as well as to recommend which corporate strategies are effective in achieving sustainable growth. IB scholarship could also fruitfully flag multinational strategies of decoupling and greenwashing (Lashitew, 2021). One promising avenue for future research could examine how the availability of more data on sustainable practices combined with theoretical angles can explain the dynamics of external expectations.

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## Small and medium manufacturing enterprises and Asia's sustainable economic development

### 1Sustainable development (SD)

Sustainable development refers to development that meets the needs of the present generations while not compromising the needs of future generations (Batabyal and Nijkamp, 2017). Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations include among others, terminating poverty while protecting the planet, mitigating climate change, and ensuring that all human beings enjoy peace and prosperity within the next ten years (United Nations Development Programme, n.d.). The focus on sustainable development emerged as a result of increased environmental awareness in the 1970s and 1980s. During this period, environmental awareness increased because of severe pollution and environmental accidents that have occurred due mainly to the attitude of passivity or sheer complicity by manufacturing, mining and oil exploration companies towards sustainability issues in general, and societal and environmental vulnerabilities in particular. The following period of increased environmental awareness has led companies to integrate sustainability into their business practices (McAloone and Pigosso, 2017).

Corporate sustainability expands the traditional bottom line focused on the financial dimension, to a triple bottom line, which incorporates the environmental and social dimensions into corporate performance (Savitz and Weber, 2014). Therefore, the sustainability performance of an organization comprises the financial, social, and environmental performance (Ndubisi and Al-Shuridah, 2019; Sousa Jabbour, Ndubisi and Seles, 2019). An organization's financial performance is commonly measured in terms of corporate profit, return on investment, or shareholder value (Savitz and Weber, 2014). Meanwhile, social and environmental performance including an organization's obligations towards society and the physical environment have been overlooked or relegated for quite a long time. Social performance refers to an organization's responsibility towards the labor force, its immediate community, as well as the society in general, throughout its operations. Social performance can be measured with regard to employee relations, health and safety records, community impacts, and human rights in general. Environmental performance considers the environmental impact of an organization referring to environmental resource consumption, polluting emissions, carbon footprint, solid and water waste, recycling, and reuse emissions (González-Benito and González-Benito, 2006; Savitz and Weber, 2014; Zhu and Sarkis, 2004). By measuring all three bottom lines, financial, social, and environmental performance, organizations consider the full cost of running their business. To achieve sustainable development, organizations should report a positive return on investment on all three of these sustainable performance measures (Savitz and Weber, 2014).

Implementing sustainable development goals is particularly crucial for countries in Asia and the Pacific. Due to rapid economic growth, this region has experienced a significant reduction of people living in extreme poverty, however, 844 million people are living near the poverty line, and economic growth has led to climate change and significant environmental stress (Asian Development Bank, 2017). The quantity of raw materials used to produce one unit of GDP is two times greater in the Asian region as compared to other regions; this rate of raw material consumption leads to severe environmental stress and scarcity (Sousa Jabbour et al., 2019), and often linked to climate change. Albeit climate change is a serious threat to all countries around the world, Asia's rapid economic growth fueled by massive production activities and consequent extreme resources consumption exacerbates the region's environmental vulnerability. Increase in natural disasters, which has negatively impacted food security are some of the unprecedented developments that the continent has witnessed in the last thirty years. The region has implemented various policies aimed at mitigating climate change, however, these policies have not been very successful and have left the region with difficulties in reaching sustainable development (Batabyal and Nijkam, 2017). Therefore, there is a growing need for businesses in this region to implement sustainable development goals and for researchers to pay attention to these developments and in turn contribute towards the advancement of knowledge and managerial practice.

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## A journey of social sustainability in organization during MDG & SDG period: A bibliometric analysis

### 1.1Theoretical background of MDG & SDG period

After the first mention of sustainable development in the Brundtland Commission Report, organizations, governments & researchers have shown great interest in developing business approaches to address the barriers in achieving sustainable business [17]. Hence, in lieu of achieving sustainable development worldwide, United Nations made development goals in 2000. Therefore, in order to do a comparative study, this article is divided into 2-time frames to compare and contrast the social trends of developed and developing nations for two distinct periods:

2000– 2015: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a group of eight objectives set in 2000 by the United Nations to alleviate poverty and boost living standards in underdeveloped nations. Goals included eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, bolstering the health of mothers and children, advancing gender equality, and expanding access to education and clean water. From 2000 until 2015, when they expired, the MDGs were in place and helped advance substantial improvements in the quality of life for people in low-income countries.

2016– 2021: During September 2015, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to bring about global sustainable development by the year 2030. The SDGs attempt to tackle broader issues associated with economic, social, and environmental sustainability. The goals aim to end poverty and hunger and promote prosperity, health, education, equality between the sexes, access to affordable and clean energy, good jobs and economic growth, liveable and safe communities, climate action, and the protection of biodiversity. They apply to all countries, not just developing ones.

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## Wider Themes and Trends

### Sustainability

Sustainability is another such trend that may be able to add further meaning to the findings of this book. Sustainability can also encompass many meanings and forms.

The United Nations offers a comprehensive introduction to ideas concerning sustainability in its Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics). The topics described include capacity building, education, climate change, food security, health, multistakeholder partnerships, sustainable tourism, trade, and many others. Sustainable development goals are offered in an easy-to-understand format, and consist of the following targets.

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No poverty.

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Zero hunger.

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Good health and well-being.

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Quality education.

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Gender equality.

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Clean water and sanitation.

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Affordable and clean energy.

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Decent work and economic growth.

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Industry, innovation and infrastructure.

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Reduced inequalities.

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Sustainable cities and communities.

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Responsible consumption and production.

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Climate action.

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Life below water.

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Life on land.

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Peace, justice and strong institutions.

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Partnerships for the goals (United Nations, 2017).

Within the field of librarianship, the International Relations Roundtable of the American Library Association (ALA) International Sustainable Library Development Interest Group (ISLD) defines its purpose in the following way:

By linking resources and projects from developed to developing nations, this group offers sustainability as a goal to strive for, and one that fits easily into an understanding of international librarianship.

The trend of sustainability could offer a reason for different forms of international librarianship given as examples in this book to grow in the future, such as literacy programs, professional development training programs for librarians from developing nations, etc.

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## How a Blockchain Network Can Ensure Compliance With Clean Development Mechanism Methodology and Reduce Uncertainty About Achieving Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

### 18.5Looking Ahead—Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

CERs are the measure of overall impact of a project toward improving sustainable development and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As each country implements their own approach to meet their contributions toward the Paris Climate Agreement, there will be a need to establish efficient data streams. Each country is given flexibility in how they will use CERs to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). NDCs form the path to meet each of the SDGs and each nation needs to create global partnerships to achieve SDGs goals by 2030. The Blockchain is a risk-adverse process to facilitate the success of achieving various SDGs. The SDGs encompass many avenues to improve the quality of life of each participant while complimenting the efforts of improving. Relevant goals that a Blockchain include improving economic growth and earning potential of regional communities (Goal 8) through technology adoption and facilitate growth. A Blockchain network also provides the groundwork to facilitate future technological adoption (Goal 9). By providing a data stream that is devoid of manipulation, communities can use Blockchain CDM projects to receive funding and adopt sustainable projects (Goal 11). Developing communities lack infrastructure or institutional support to comply with the requirements of some or many financing sources. A Blockchain network at baseline provides these necessities and attracts new partnerships (Goal 17) to exchange information and increase collaboration as each country advances toward achieving the SDGs. Data inputted on a Blockchain would ideally be viewed through the UNFCCC NDC Registry. Article 4 of the Paris Climate Agreement requires each country to publicly issue their NDC to the UNFCCC NDC Registry to monitor progress, and the responsibility to meet these NDCs falls on each independent country (Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-first session. Paris Climate Agreement, 2015; NDC Registry, n.d.). There is no punishment for failing to meet these goals, nor is there a distributed reward for achieving specific metrics so further incentives need to be considered. It should be in each participant’s best interest to pursue innovations that improve the outcomes of our actions toward bettering our planet.

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## Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review

### 5.1.5Partnership Pillar: SDG 17

The final pillar of sustainable goals (SDG 17) is about mobilizing the means required to implement the SDGs through global partnerships with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders, and all people. Indeed, partnerships constitute an important factor in all the 17 SDGs as achieving these sustainability goals necessitates broader collaborations between various stakeholders across borders. These stakeholders include governments, non-government agencies, industry groups, MNEs, non-for-profit organizations, domestic firms, as well as in principle all people on the planet. The necessity for cross-sectorial and intergovernmental cooperation toward systemic change toward sustainability is widely recognized in the literature (e.g., Salvia et al., al., 2019).

Collaboration between global stakeholders may become more difficult in times of crisis e.g., due to logistical issues, however, there is also a tendency to pull together resources as a global community to help where disasters strike. Collaborate efforts to provide refugees from Ukraine temporary homes in Europe is one such example. Refugee and immigration efforts more broadly around the world are becoming a coordinated effort involving both nation-states, LNOGS, INGOs, and MNEs (Al Adem et al., 2018). At the same time, the growing use of social media and celebrity engagement (i.e., Elon Musk) influence how MNEs legitimate and organize humanitarian logistics in the aftermath of manmade crises such as war (e.g., Maghsoudi & Moshtari, 2020), putting a premium on future research into public-private-media partnerships in relation to disasters.

Recent high-magnitude climate-related disasters (e.g., hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires) have also brought together both local and global communities to help with everything from food and water supply to rebuilding critical infrastructures. The Covid-19 pandemic illustrated both the importance and willingness to collaborate globally to save lives, but also the inherent weaknesses in fragmented global value chains within the medical field that lead to misalignment between government priorities and MNE strategies (e.g., Gereffi, 2020). Thus, IB is deeply intertwined in accomplishing all 17 SDGs via global partnerships and disasters increase both the necessity and motivation for IB stakeholders to collaborate.

There is an increasing need to reconceptualize and reconfigure MNEs in the face of global challenges such as disasters towards multi-stakeholder collaborative actions (Petricevic & Teece, 2019). Some scholars argue that a transition into a circular economy may facilitate many of the SDGs via innovation and explicit focus on sustainable business models (Dantas et al., 2021; Awan et al., 2022). Such a transition would require fundamental changes to business operations involving high degrees of partnerships with multiple stakeholders in virtually all value chain activities and subsequent redistribution of profits amongst these to better align MNE short-term strategies with government and societal long-term priorities (see Gereffi, 2020). For IB scholars, an explicit focus on multi-stakeholder partnerships at the intersection of disasters and the SDGs provides an impetus for multidisciplinary research that relaxes the underlying assumptions of the theory of the firm, as MNE boundaries and global value chain governance become more modular, fluid, and transient (see McWilliam et al., 2020) to better match the characteristics of a world of disasters embedded within a circular economy.

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## Cooperatives and the sustainable development goals

### 6.5.4Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals

Table 6.1, from the ICA’s Co-operatives for 2030: Cooperative Initiative to Achieve a Sustainable Future for All shows that cooperatives from all sectors are making key contributions to many of the SDGs:

Table 6.1. Contribution of cooperatives from cooperatives for 2030: cooperative initiative to achieve a sustainable future for all.

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## ESG disclosure and Firm performance: A bibliometric and meta analysis

### 3.1Number of publication

Fig. 1 shows the annual number of publications that discuss environmental, social, and governance rating scores as a proxy for sustainability and their impact related articles. Only a single article belongs to 2012. Sustainability was a relatively neonate concept as Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) were born at the United Nation (UN) conference in Rio di Jinnario. This article is about constructing environmental indicators in line with social and governance indicators to assess ESG performance. The concept attracted the researchers' attention noticeably from the EU after EU Directive 2014/ 95 was established, making it mandatory for large-sized firms to report non-financial information publicly.

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Fig. 1. Growth of literature.

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