Kroger to Phase Out Single-use Plastic Bags by 2025

Building sustainable infrastructure for future generations has never been more important as populations expand, climate change threatens livelihoods, and the need for better-connected infrastructure grows more rapidly by the day. Skanska has always been committed to building what matters. Thanks to programs like Envision™, we have a solid roadmap for sustainability, and we are building projects that deliver meaningful social, environmental and economic benefits to our communities.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embody the desire for development, but also the rebranding and exacerbation of (capitalist) sustainable development. In their new article in Sustainability Science,  Mary Menton, Carlos Larrea, Sara Latorre, Joan Martinez-Alier, Mike Peck, Leah Temper and Mariana Walter (2020), review and analyze the SDGs in relation to (an expansive reading of) environmental justice. Menton and colleagues give credit to the SDGs where it is due, while highlighting an enormous list of issues to be addressed. The SDGs promote projects such as hydroelectric dams, wind energy (factories) and conservation areas that have resulted in serious ecosystem degradation and injustice against people, as catalogued by the Environmental Justice Atlas.