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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Countries around the world ⁠must ⁠take decisive action to close ⁠a $4 trillion annual financing gap to ensure that sustainable development targets set ​just over a decade ago can be reached by 2030, a ...

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, ...

Japan on Monday pledged $1 billion over the next two years to back the UN’s development agenda, raising its profile as one of the world’s largest foreign aid donors. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida ...