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#1239002020-01-22
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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#1294042021-06-21
The pandemic has revived hope that a more sustainable world is possible
Some of the most striking images from the early days of the pandemic, when public health orders and lockdowns ground economies to a halt, were the arresting photos of the Himalayas, suddenly visible from across northern India, as decades of unrelenting smog finally abated.
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#1226322019-10-11
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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#1237282020-01-15
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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#1189722018-12-11
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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#1198692019-02-08
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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#1213482019-06-18
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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#1353282022-07-13
Urgent nature action needed to salvage Sustainable Development Goals: UN report
The climate crisis, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine are threatening to stall progress on several key environmental targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), humanity’s blueprint for a better future, warns a new report from the United Nations.
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#1294702021-07-07
Why 'systems change' in 2021 demands better technology
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are focused on giant goals such as zero hunger, zero poverty, gender equity and climate change response. They were designed to be met by 2030, but the latest projections show we’re on track for 2092. Business as usual is clearly not working.
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#1216302019-07-18
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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#1193802019-01-15
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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#1218752019-08-13
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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#1216462019-07-19
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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#1221952019-09-12
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 ...