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 ...

New York, 17 July – As preparations get underway for the Summit of the Future this September, the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development concluded today with UN Member States ...

Globally, climate change represents the most significant threat to the environment and socio-economic development, endangering lives and livelihoods. Within the UN’s current 17 Sustainable Development ...

In 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly marked a historic milestone by unanimously endorsing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the overarching framework of the comprehensive ...

With renewed urgency to tackle inequalities and restore trust in public institutions, the 63 rd session of the UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD63) will run from 10 to 14 February in New ...

Cash crunch makes sustainable goals tougher for poor countries Boosting financing 'absolutely central', says UN’s Steiner $4 trln needed, but just $300 mln there, says World Bank's Banga HAMBURG, ...

UNCTAD’s latest report revealed that rising debt costs had squeezed developing nations, reducing funds for schools, ...

The effort, however, comes at a time when major global powers – namely the U.S. – are pivoting away from the kind of U.N.-centered cooperative framework envisioned by Astana. On March 4, the United ...

UN sustainable development goals set for 2030 are slipping from reach just as the world’s wealthiest countries are withdrawing funding. President Donald Trump's gutting of the US development agency ...

Investors seeking clues about where society is headed—and which trends could benefit—might look at the Sustainable Development Goals. Adopted by United Nations members in 2015, the 17 Sustainable ...