The Sustainable Development Goals are embedded in the 2030 Agenda, a framework developed by the UN and officially launched during the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015. The 2030 Agenda sets out ...

For cities in the Global South, energy policy must reduce energy use without further punishing urban poor communities. Field trials have established that economic insufficiency-driven restrained ...

In 2012, world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro began to discuss a set of universal goals that would meet the environmental, political and economic ...

African countries should start early to develop an agreed position before the next set of global priorities is discussed.

Sustainable lifestyles, green-tech innovation, and government-led transformation each offer promising routes to make significant progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ...

Climate change is the single biggest threat to the global environment and socio-economic development—demanding an urgent transformation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ...

The 2026 Africa Sustainable Development Report (ASDR 2026) is setting the direction for accelerated action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union's Agenda 2063, as countries ...

A decade after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations released today the 10th edition of its annual progress report, The Sustainable Development Goals Report ...

The United Nations said it is at risk of falling short of its sustainable development targets, including ending extreme poverty and hunger, with less than four years remaining before its 2030 ...

Both Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed to reduce poverty.  34% of Bangladesh’s population lived below the extreme poverty line ...

More than 200 business leaders, sustainability practitioners, policymakers and representatives from the United Nations gathered in Colombo on 11–12 August for Forward Faster Now APAC 2026: Driving ...