What is the Meaning of Sustainable Development? As we approach the Rio Earth Summit, concerns grow about urban centers' environmental impact and our collective carbon footprint.

Sustainable development Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' (defined by the ...

Sustainable development goals are found wherever UN bureaucrats and international diplomats meet. You’ll see the 17 flags of the SDGs in the lush gardens of the UN headquarters in New York.

The link between affordable housing, well-planned and equitable cities, and sustainable development must be made explicit.

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.

Twenty years after the Brundtland Report asserted it was in the common interest of all peoples and nations to establish policies for sustainable development, the pace of sustainability is finally ...

Political instability, climate change effects and economic woes have affected many of the UN’s SDGs. Out of 167 subtargets, ...

December 2014, No. 3 Vol. LI, Conference Diplomacy S ustainable development is by definition extremely wide in scope. It could embrace any number of multilateral agreements above and beyond the ...

The San Diego Planning Department is proposing a new definition to replace "transit priority areas," where the city aims to focus its future growth, after complaints from anti-density homeowners ...

Those that rise to this moment will not only rescue global development but also secure a decisive edge in the sustainable economy of tomorrow.