Lower-performing countries follow a different pattern. Gains in basic infrastructure, water access, or food availability can raise SDG scores even when education systems, innovation capacity, or ...

Parallel plot of the 17 SDG. Comparison among all the yearly average SDG scores, from 2000 to 2022. Scale color goes from dark red (2000) to light blue (2022). A new analysis reveals complex linkages ...

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 ...

The United Nations issued the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a framework for organizing discussion and tracking progress toward global sustainability. The color of the map reflects ...

Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Failing: Travel & Tourism May Help Positive strides have been taken toward eliminating poverty (Goal 1) and bolstering sustainable industry, innovation, and ...

Mention sustainability, and most people will automatically think about preserving natural resources and protecting the environment. While those concerns are certainly part of what is commonly ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm in July: “Halfway to ...

The Sustainable Development Goals are embedded in the 2030 Agenda, a framework developed by the UN and officially launched during the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015. The 2030 Agenda sets out ...

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 ...