The Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight goals designed to form a blueprint for international development, have had mixed results. Extreme poverty and global child mortality rates have been ...

Eight years ago, the world signed up to an unprecedented project. At a United Nations summit in September 2015, 193 countries agreed to work towards 17 goals with the aim of improving the lives of all ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

Sustainable Development Goal 17 is about revitalizing the global partnership, including increased financing, for sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is universal and ...

What Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In 2015 the United Nations created a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and ...

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 ...

Encouraging development has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Pointing to the United Nations Charter, which expresses the determination to “promote social progress and better ...

On behalf of the Government of the Czech Republic let me first thank the government and people of Mexico for hosting this important meeting. I firmly believe that this conference will help the ...

The world is falling well short of the progress needed to meet the United Nations' sustainable development goals by 2030 in areas ranging from poverty to clean energy to biodiversity, with a growing ...

Nelson Duenas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Nelson Duenas is a researcher associated to l'Observatoire canadien sur les crises et l'action ...