Greenwashing and the Sustainable Energy Transition
Annual Grand Challenge on Sustainability
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Vision
To create a global hub of knowledge creation and dissemination in sustainability to help businesses and policymakers contribute more effectively to a sustainable society.
Mission
To mobilize the talent and expertise within Ï㽶ÊÓƵ to help businesses move towards more socially and environmentally sustainable business models.
Five Pillars
Anchored at the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management, SGI was launched in 2022 as a cross-faculty partnership that presently also involves the Faculty of Law, the Department of Economics, and the Max Bell School of Public Policy, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Geography.
The SGI is dedicated to building practical, constructive, and applies solutions for key issues challenging sustainable growth.
The SGI is designed to operate as an integrated ecosystem that mobilizes researchers, industry leaders, policy-makers, and students throughÌý5 pillars:
- Research-to-action: researchers work with industry leaders to develop applied solutions to complex sustainability challenges.
- Engagement: workshops designed to foster dialogue between Academic, Industry, and Policy stakeholders and decision-makers around sustainable growth.
- Student competitions: large-scale competitions to mobilize and focus global student talent towards building applied solutions. The SGI’s Annual Grand Challenge (AGC) will launch global student case competitions and build on the success of the McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC).Ìý
- Thought leadership: broadcast all the major activities in research, resulting solutions, industry partnerships and student competitions that are driving the sustainable growth agenda.
- Education: ESG training platform in response to practitioner and student demand for ESG integration.
A unique and innovative structure
Activities under the five pillars are driven by several themed offices, each sponsored by an industry partner. Currently, SGI hosts three active themed offices:
- CIBC Office for Sustainable Finance
- Alstom Office for Sustainable Mobility
- Power Sustainable Office for Decarbonization
Stay tuned for future themed office announcements.
Annual Grand Challenge
In addition to the constant priority themes, the SGI will also launch an Annual Grand Challenge each year that reflects one of the current and predominant sustainable growth issues facing the industry. Like the Initiative’s priority themes, the Grand Challenge will have Research-to-Action, Engagement, Thought Leadership, Student Competitions, and Education activities devoted to it.
The successive nature of the Annual Grand Challenge keeps the SGI engaged with the most timely and pressing issues. This allows the Initiative to build a constant social and media presence, which is necessary for the SGI to remain relevant and effective. The Annual Grand Challenge will also bring together a large pool of McGill researchers to tackle a wide range of complex sustainability challenges.
Impact and benefits for corporate partners
- Opportunity to work with academics on complex sustainability challenges that impact your industry
- Access to talent trained in ESG integration
- Visibility on the main activities developed by the SGI
- Ability to drive real change on sustainable growth
Past Events & News
Other collaborations
CDSI Speaker Series: Morgan Edwards (March 2023)
Sustainability research news
2023 SSHRC Insight Development Grants
Published: 8 Apr 20242023 SSHRC Insight Grants awarded
Published: 28 Sep 2023Professor Kim awarded SSHRC Insight Grant
Published: 13 Oct 2022The implications for research on carbon labels
Published: 11 Aug 2022
Sustainability in the news
MIPC 2024: Students tackle global finance challenges with innovation and leadership
Published: 18 Dec 2024Wind-powered shipping could make a comeback—but it won’t work for everything
Published: 28 Oct 2024SGI’s Inaugural Sustainable Transportation Roundtable on the Future of Urban Mobility
Published: 3 Jun 2024MIPC asks students to devise decumulation strategies for an inflationary environment
Published: 19 Jan 2024