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 ...

Political instability, climate change effects and economic woes have affected many of the UN’s SDGs. Out of 167 subtargets, only 25 are on track to reach their 2030 aims.

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.

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 a ...

The World Bank offers financing, data, knowledge, policy advice, and technical assistance to help countries achieve their development goals and address global challenges. Our experience on the ground ...

In Goal 8: to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, the international community aims to achieve full and productive ...

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 ...

Halfway to the SDGs’ 2030 deadline, countries have made progress, but most are struggling to meet all 17 goals. The US is no exception.

When world leaders signed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, in 2015, we collectively committed to “transforming our world”.

There is no planet B, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are heading for the rocks. Researchers around the world must do their bit to change that.