The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member ...

For US institutions in particular, engagement with the SDGs will require coordination across research priorities, operations, and partnerships.

A woman holds a banner during a protest against all forms of violence calling for respect for the rights of women, in Cartagena, Colombia on July 5, 2012 (Joaquin Sarimento/Courtesy Reuters). As the ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

WORLD LEADERS gathering in New York for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit next week will be faced with the entirely predictable failure of their own grand promises. Adopted with ...

A new analysis reveals complex linkages among the United Nations' (UN's) 17 Sustainable Development Goals—which include such ...

4 December 2024 - Capacity development goes beyond building skills. It is about empowering individuals and institutions to turn knowledge into sustainable action, innovation and resilience. UN DESA ...

The United Nations issued the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a framework for organizing discussion and tracking progress toward global sustainability. The color of the map reflects ...

Oceans sustain life by providing myriad ecosystem services and foods which over three billion people depend on for survival, so its conservation is covered in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. September 23 - The pressing question facing us all as citizens of the planet is what are the consequences of failing to ...

Seventeen is a lot. It is surely the sign of a United Nations insider that they can remember the names and numbers (and even the associated colours) of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ...