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#118972
2018-12-11

Transboundary Water Cooperation And The Sustainable Development Goals

Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point.

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#118973
2018-12-11

Study Shows How African Countries are Preparing for Green Development

KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 11 2018 (IPS) - In order for African countries to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), they will require further human capacity building, and there must be involvement of the private sector from the start of the ...

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#119380
2019-01-15

Why the ocean holds the key to sustainable development

It is only 12 years until 2030, the deadline for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world has set itself an ambitious task.

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#119869
2019-02-08

Transforming Economies, States, & Societies – Building Evidence for Achieving SDGs

Following on from Finn Tarp, my predecessor, is a daunting prospect, but I look forward to working with my colleagues at UNU-WIDER and with our many partners to build on the achievements of the past 10 years.

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#119918
2019-02-12

Are Sustainable Development Goals Reaching Indigenous Peoples?

Life and death for whole communities hang in the balance of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that include eliminating poverty, conserving forests, and addressing climate change in a resolution adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2015.

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#119978
2019-02-18

In Action: How Asia Pulp & Paper is achieving SDG 15 Life On Land

In the first of a new series investigating how corporates are engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to accelerate strategic aims, edie looks at how Asia Pulp & Paper is driving out deforestation while improving the livelihoods of its workers in Indonesia.

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#120212
2019-03-05

Landmark study finds tackling inequality is key to realising UN goals

A landmark study of the relationship between each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has found that tackling inequality in rich countries could unlock the prize of a better and more sustainable future for all.

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#120420
2019-03-19

Biodiversity Conservation is the Way for Zero Hunger in Ghana

According to the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), by the year 2030, Ghana should have: 1) ended hunger and ensured access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round, 2) ended all forms of malnutrition, 3) doubled agricultural product ...

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#120842
2019-04-24

Leave No Ambition Behind: Why These 21 Targets Could Save the SDGs

2019 is a milestone year for the SDGs. It includes the first comprehensive review of progress on the entire 2030 Agenda since implementation began in 2016.

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#120894
2019-04-30

Rural crisis could derail global development goals: UN report

Deepening rural crises across the world is slowing down progress in hunger and poverty reduction, achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and could even become a prime reason responsible for missing the global climate targets, a recent report of the United Nations held.

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#120989
2019-05-08

Biodiversity loss mars SDG success, report finds

An “unprecedented” loss of global biodiversity threatens the progress of more than 80 per cent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and puts 1 million animal and plant species at risk of extinction, a landmark scientific report has warned.

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#121081
2019-05-16

Are we actually making progress on the SDGs?

In 2015, United Nations member states, together with civil society and business, came together to prepare a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030.

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#121090
2019-05-16

Nature Champions Summit Calls for Putting Nature at the Center of Sustainable Development Agenda

30 April 2019: The Nature Champions Summit kicked off a series of multilateral meetings focused on building momentum towards 2020, when leaders representing 190 countries will come together with non-government actors for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Conventio ...

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#121108
2019-05-20

Green Finance Leaders Convene to Develop Financial Solutions for Global Goals

Edinburgh, Scotland - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Scottish-Government backed Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), together with the New York Declaration on Forests Global Platform, gather experts in Edinburgh, Scotland today to develop financial solutions that drive ...

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#121348
2019-06-18

UN’s Development Goals Remain Largely Elusive

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 2019 (IPS) - The United Nations, in a new report to be released next month, has warned “there is no escaping the fact that the global landscape for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generally deteriorated since 2015, hindering the effort ...

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#121501
2019-07-08

Sustainable Development Needs a Hardware Update

BONN, Jul 8 2019 (IPS) - When UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs in September 2015, they signalled with the title Transforming our World that ‘business as usual’ is no longer an option and fundamental changes in politics and society are necessary.

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#121526
2019-07-10

Now is the time to seize ‘unprecedented opportunity’ of the Sustainable Development Forum, says ECOSOC President

Nations across the world now have an “unprecedented opportunity to talk to each other and learn from each other”, Inga Rhonda King, President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ESOSOC), said on Tuesday, kicking off the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in Ne ...

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#121530
2019-07-10

Global response to poverty and environmental goals 'not ambitious enough’

In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a “wealth of action” had been taken by governments across the world “the most vulnerable people and countries continue to suffer the most.”

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#121542
2019-07-11

A quarter of Pacific islanders live below ‘basic needs poverty lines’, top UN development forum hears

In 2015, the UN set out a vision for “people, planet, peace and prosperity” through partnership and solidarity, when it adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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#121564
2019-07-12

Science is ‘key’ to pushing forward the 2030 Agenda, UN development forum told

Romain Murenzi, Executive Director of the World Academy of Sciences Resource shared key findings of the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), which will be launched at the SDG Summit in September.

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#121600
2019-07-16

Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief

The world’s people are demanding “transformative change that is fair and sustainable,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, calling on government leaders to use the upcoming slate of key United Nations meetings in September to “kickstart a decade of delivery and action for people ...

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#121627
2019-07-18

Asia and Pacific on course to miss all Sustainable Development Goals, says UN region chief

Unless progress is accelerated, Asia and the Pacific are on course to miss all of the 17 Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the UN regional commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), told UN News at the Organization's Headquarters on Wednesday.

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#121630
2019-07-18

Why Biodiversity Matters: Mapping the Linkages between Biodiversity and the SDGs

Biodiversity is a concept difficult to understand or appreciate, let alone regulate and communicate.

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#121633
2019-07-19

HLPF Side Event Highlights Community-based Model of Landscape Management

15 July 2019: An event on the sidelines of the 2019 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) highlighted the ways in which a community-based model of landscape management can enhance the resilience of local ecosystems, protect biodiversity and support sustai ...

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#121646
2019-07-19

Will a Global Fund Help Deliver UN’s Development Agenda?

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 2019 (IPS) - The United Nations, which has been tracking both the successes and failures of its highly-ambitious Agenda for Sustainable Development, has warned that “progress has been slow” in many of the 17 Goals after four years of implementation.

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#121793
2019-08-02

Economic growth benefits wildlife but growing human populations do not

Do the UN's sustainable development goals promote or limit conservation?

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#121875
2019-08-13

Wildlife trafficking and more hinder nations' sustainable development

Transnational environmental crime—wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, dumping hazardous waste and more—takes an estimated $91 to $259 billion bite out of the global economy and has strong ties to organized crime finance, says a new study from Michigan State University and published in Nature ...

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#121893
2019-08-14

Gender equality, education and the environment at the forefront of new SDG Advocate campaigns

Brazilian footballer “Marta” not only plays for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the Brazil national team as a forward, but with 17 goals – the same number as the SDGs! – she is the top scorer ever at FIFA World Cup tournaments - that's both for the men and women's cha ...

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#122011
2019-08-27

Deep transformations needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change call for deep transformations that require complementary actions by governments, civil society, science, and business.

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#122182
2019-09-11

Focusing on key sustainable development goals would boost progress across all, analysis finds

By using a mathematical network analysis to map the relationships identified by an International Council for Science report, the University of Bath research reveals that direct efforts focussed on a critical few: Life below Water, Life on Land, and Gender Equality, would reinforce the virtuous c ...

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#122195
2019-09-12

World risks missing development goals, experts warn

Leading scientists say growing inequality and climate change will not only derail progress towards global sustainability goals but threaten human existence. Presenting a report at the United Nations in New York, Switzerland’s Peter Messerli external linksaid humans and the environment were close ...

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#122361
2019-09-25

Sustainable development goals only achievable through cross-disciplinary research

It is not possible to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDG) if science does not contribute with cross-disciplinary knowledge and understanding of how systems are interconnected. This is emphasized by a U.N. appointed panel of international researchers with the University of Copenhagen ...

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#122613
2019-10-10

Does sustainable development have an elephant in the room?

The inherently unequal relationship between the developed and developing world is hindering sustainable development.

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#122632
2019-10-11

The untapped potential of citizen science to track progress on the Sustainable Development Goals

“We are currently almost five years into the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, yet we do not have sufficient data for tracking the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals,” says Jillian Campbell, the Statistician leading UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) work on monitorin ...

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#123018
2019-11-15

Africa’s path to sustainable prosperity must move in step with environmental action

A blueprint for environmental action in Africa exists. It’s time we used it to transform the continent Africa is on the move. Six of the world’s fastest growing economies are African. The continent is urbanising rapidly, and governments are working to provide the infrastructure, skills and polic ...

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#123105
2019-11-25

'Wake-up call': Europe off track on all Sustainable Development Goals, report warns

Every country in Europe is failing against global sustainability targets, a stark United Nations-backed assessment has warned this week, sparking calls for EU political leaders to urgently draw up an ambitious plans to address climate change, pollution, biodiversity and overconsumption across th ...

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#123145
2019-11-27

Report Calls on Europe to Align Policies, Development Cooperation with SDGs

The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) have published the first-ever Europe Sustainable Development Report, assessing quantitative progress of the EU and its member states towards the SDGs.

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#123728
2020-01-15

Top 20 for 2020: Lets make our workplaces sustainable

It’s 2020, a global super year with the potential for great things to happen. You’ve got your resolutions - you’re going to be healthier, happier and more sustainable (you’ve already got the reusable cup to prove it)! But could it also be the year your employer or business becomes sustainable to ...

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#123830
2020-01-21

Private Sector Involvement, a Key Driving Force for SDGs

For the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, to come to fruition, a collaborative effort involving the private and public sectors is necessary, according to the National Development Planning Board, or Bappenas.

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#123900
2020-01-22

The effect of wildfires on sustainable development

With only 10 years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, world leaders in September 2019 called for accelerated action in the next decade to deliver at the scale and speed required. Climate change and global heating however, are increasing the likelihood and intensity of wildfires, ...

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#123913
2020-01-23

Decade of Action on the Sustainable Development Goals is under way

The Sustainable Development Goals are known as the world’s blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 goals are ...

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#123968
2020-01-27

SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Billions of people depend on the oceans for their food and livelihoods, but progress towards SDG14 remains stubbornly stuck in the slow lane.

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#124289
2020-02-21

Québec biodiversity corridor master plan wins urban design award

Civiliti, Land Italia, Table Architecture, and Biodiversité Conseil have won a special jury prize from the National Urban Design Awards in the ‘sustainable development’ category for the master plan of a biodiversity corridor in Saint-Laurent, Qué.

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#125090
2020-04-13

Challenges in implementing Agenda 2030 for sustainable development: Where are we now?

On Sept. 25, 2015, 193 United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ushering a new era of international cooperation. An interdisciplinary framework of 17 “Global Goals” otherwise known as Agenda 2030, this year marks its fifth year of implementation. Although co ...

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#125093
2020-04-16

COVID-19 and the SDGs: moving forward after the crisis

COVID-19 is raging everywhere, resulting in much of the world in self-isolation and the closing of borders worldwide. With comparisons to the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, we are experiencing a literal one-in-100-year event.

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#125673
2020-11-11

How Public Development Banks Can Help Nature

This week’s Finance in Common Summit will mark the first time that leaders of the world’s 450 public development banks (PDBs) come together to discuss how to reorient investments toward sustainable development.

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#125678
2020-11-13

Biodiversity: sharing is caring –

If I could sum up what Malta lacks the most in one word, it would be sustainability. The term is usually associated with issues only concerning the environment but sustainable thinking doesn’t just benefit the natural world; it also has positive economic and social implications.

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#125700
2020-11-16

Opportunity and risk in the nature-based bioeconomy

All that glitters is not gold, or so the expression goes. Similarly, as business leaders, academics, and policymakers gather for the third Global Bioeconomy Summit it's worth noting that all that's green is not necessarily sustainable.

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#125843
2020-11-25

Four ways cities must harness the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to build back after COVID

The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are vital to achieving a prosperous future for all. Only one, SDG #11, explicitly addresses cities – but in fact, 65% of the SDG targets can only be accomplished if cities and regions get involved.

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#126109
2020-12-09

Tanzania: NGOs' Reminded Role in Achieving SDGs

Local government leaders, members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and private sector were yesterday advised that achieving sustainable development goals (SGDs) requires serious commitment from every person who intends to see true changes.

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