The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

New York, 12 September— Ahead of the SDG Summit, a new UN report by an independent group of scientists launched today calls for transformational shifts rooted in science that would urgently reverse ...

The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbates the challenges to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights the need for a shared framework for tackling global challenges. No country in ...

ACROSS the Asean region, the business world is beginning to sense that the issue of sustainability is no longer an “additional agenda”, but part of the mainstream development governance. In Indonesia, ...

An assessment of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa, which began and ended between 2000 and 2015, showed abysmal outcomes for most countries. Nigeria was one of the main candidates that failed ...

In 2015, world leaders reached a historic consensus, agreeing to 17 global goals to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges like climate change, world hunger, poverty and human rights abuses.