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6 The great paradigm shift: business schools leading the global sustainability agenda

In 2015, the United National General Assembly embarked upon a bold vision comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on several economic, climate change, sustainability, and equality goals for the year 2030. Ranging from goals like no poverty and zero hunger to affordable/clean energy, reduced inequality, and climate action, these goals are meant to encourage dialogue and debate as to how to create a real, better world for its citizens, communities, governments, and relationships in the 21st century.

Although governments and their leaders drafted, agreed to, and will be held accountable for meeting these SDGs, the business world and its leaders ...