As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

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), ...

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 ...

A new analysis reveals complex linkages among the United Nations' (UN's) 17 Sustainable Development Goals—which include such objectives as gender equality and quality education—and finds that no ...

21 May 2025 - Football unites fans worldwide – but on Wednesday it matched the sport’s global reach with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the lead-up to World Football Day, marked on 25 ...

Equity Group chief executive James Mwangi has joined a 20-member global commission that will help craft a new global development roadmap to succeed the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals ...

The initiative is aligned with national development priorities and international frameworks, including the UN Sustainable ...

The world faces more interconnected challenges than ever before, shaped by new and evolving economic, environmental, political, and social dynamics. In an effort to encourage global cooperation, ...

The Trump administration is undertaking a sweeping effort to claw back a range of prior United Nations commitments to promote internationally agreed development and anti-poverty goals, scale back ...

In 2015, the United Nations created an agenda for achieving sustainable development by 2030. Comprised of 17 goals, known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), they outlined values in the ...