At this year's United Nations high-level political forum, 43 countries presented their voluntary national reviews on the progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. GRI took this opportunity to investigate how the private sector in particular has been included in these reviews. Here we present a quick overview of three emerging trends on the private sector role in the 2030 Agenda.

In 2015, Cargill set five-year goals to improve our use of energy and natural resources. By 2020, we're committed to sourcing 18 percent of our energy portfolio for renewable sources, up from 14.4 percent today. We are also committed to improving energy efficiency, freshwater efficiency and greenhouse gas intensity by 2020. See the video for a look at our progress so far.

Globalization and rapidly advancing technology are reshaping society in unprecedented ways. These trends can open new markets, drive economic growth and improve quality of life around the world.

Antea Group’s blog offers you an insight into the different features of virtual reality technology, possible benefits, and problems you should be aware of before jumping in.

As students begin to gather their notebooks, backpacks and pencils for the new school year, Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, plans to ignite a passion for recycling in schools across the country with the launch of its 7th Annual Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl. Registration is now open for the fall recycling competition at http://Recycle-Bowl.org/.

Each year, 72 billion pounds of good, safe food ends up in landfills in the U.S., yet people go hungry. With support from General Mills, Feeding America created a technology platform called MealConnect that gives food donors a convenient, free and safe way to reduce waste and connect surplus meals with those facing hunger.

The Challenge is an important element of Nespresso's sustainability strategy - the Positive Cup - as it creates opportunities for collaboration, discussion and learning with experts in the academic community, while encouraging innovative solutions for key sustainability topics.

When Comcast launched Internet Essentials six years ago, we honestly had no idea how it would be received or how many low-income Americans we could reach. No one had ever tried anything this ambitious in the broadband adoption space before. We certainly wouldn’t have predicted the program would become the nation’s largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption initiative for low-income Americans, connecting more homes than all other similar programs combined – by several orders of magnitude.