The Institut Català d’Oncologia (Catalan Institute of Oncology) is a comprehensive cancer centre that has integrated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its management model. The 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet through169 targets and a set of global indicators. The publication of the 2030 Agenda represents a new challenge for our organization. Integrate the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs into the institution's strategy, within the framework of implementing the Corporate Social Responsibility Plan. Use of a participatory methodology of commissions and working groups to involve the whole staff. Organization of a 7-hour workshop to conduct the materiality analysis identifying the priority and secondary SDGs for our institution. Organization of a “World Café” to specify actions to be carried out and to define indicators. Preparation of the CSR Plan, which is followed up with a Plan Management Tool with an integrated perspective on SDGs. The priority SDGs for our institution are: SDG 3, Health and well-being, SDG 5 Gender Equality, SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth and SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production. The secondary SDGs are SDG 4 Quality education, SDG 10 Reduction of inequalities, SDG 13 Climate action, SDG 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions and SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals. These goals are integrated into the CSR Plan, which includes 70 actions and 124 indicators. The publication of the 2030 Agenda has meant a new boost to the ethical and values management of the institution: The SDGs have been aligned with the lines of action of the CSR Plan. The initiative has helped to consolidate the organization as a reference health entity and promote responsible and sustainable social and environmental practices.

The human-caused (anthropogenic) rate of species extinction is already 1,000 times more rapid than the ‘natural’ rate of extinction typical of Earth’s long-term history, with the result that we are currently living through one of the very few mass extinctions to date. It is clear that climate change represents the greatest threat to life on Earth for many millennia. Given the urgency with which we must reduce the size of our collective ecological footprint, it is remarkable that so little attention has been afforded to livestock production. The inconvenient truth is that the emissions resulting from clearing land to graze livestock and grow feed, from the livestock themselves, and from processing and transporting livestock products, are greater than those resulting from any other sector. These factors are explored, as are the profound impacts of climate change on global food security.
 Strategies for mitigating the environmental damage created by livestock production are reviewed. It is clear that replacing livestock products with alternatives would be the best strategy for reversing climate change, and would have far more rapid effects on green house gas emissions and their atmospheric concentrations, than actions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources.

Poverty has been a major national challenge for Afghan people. This has intensified severely for the past two decades where the rate reaches to 54%. On the other hand, there is little hope, willingness, and strategic measures to open the door for better opportunities and livelihood for Afghan people. This paper observes the poverty trend in Afghanistan and has a closer look at the constituent, factors, and causes that fuels poverty. It applied development theory and pro-poor policy to assess the social phenomena. The theory is selected for the reason that the problem has an interrelation with the social change. The population change and the poverty rate in different intervals of times have been assessed by the theory. Deficits and underperformance of stakeholders who led the implementation of aid programs in the country has also been discussed. Later, a gap has been identified by the author of the paper and argued in detail. Lastly, a number of solutions in the form of action and policy – employment market management and population control - have been recommended.    

Research shows that different countries and international organizations use different methods and methodologies to determine the poverty level of the population. By comparing the concepts and criteria based on these approaches, it can be concluded that, at least, it is the most objective criterion to determine the level of poverty in underdeveloped and developing countries, including transition economies. There may be small amounts of food products, non-food products and services (consumption basket) required to sustain life activity, at the expense of minimum living standards - the absolute poverty line. Starting from this logic, since 2001, regular poverty reduction has been initiated based on the absolute poverty line in Azerbaijan based on the concept of absolute poverty and the minimum consumer basket value (minimum living wage). Until 2005, the level of absolute poverty was calculated by extreme and relative poverty levels. Since then, some studies have been carried out for quality assessment, together with the quantitative assessment of poverty in the country. The situation in the country is closer to the situation in developed countries. In this context, there is a need to improve poverty criteria and metaadism in the country by taking into account the experiences in developed countries, especially the European countries, the recommendations of international organizations and the latest scientific achievements in this field.The main aim of the study is to evaluate the poverty index based on multidimensional poverty by using the experience of the Multidimensional Poverty Index in Azerbaijan in the world and to prepare suggestions and suggestions for reducing or eliminating poverty.

The development and use of sustainability indicators have been considered an active and practical area of research and has several interactive applications, since they aim to assign a value that describes the complexity between social, environmental and ecological health. This approach, thus, exerts a fundamental role generating data about questions related to the environment and its impacts into processes like construction of planning, strategies and political decisions. Our aim was to elaborate an environmental sustainability index (ESI) for hydrographic basins. three factors were defined: the factor that characterizes the land use and occupation, the topographic attributes of the land and the socioeconomic and basic sanitation conditions, all recommended by the organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) and which reflect the pressure - state - impact assessment model. the results allowed to identify the variation of the level of sustainability in the basin, being these levels distributed in five classes along the basin in the following proportion: very low 0%, low 16.68%, intermediate 72.49%, high 10.82% and very high 0.0004%. there is a notorious influence of the land use factor on the composition of the index. in areas where native vegetation is present, the environmental sustainability presented a much higher level than in areas with other types of use. The construction and application of the ESI for hydrographical basins using geoprocessing and remote sensing tools has shown consistent results, being able to be applied in several hydrographic basin scales in any region of the world. This approach presents low operational cost since the data that compose de ESI is public and financially accessible. This fact contributes to its application and favors the enhance of both technical-scientific knowledge and planning and management processes, strengthening public policies in order to achieve environmental sustainability for all society.