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 ...

Global health has improved significantly over the past 30 years thanks to advances in disease control, public safety, nutrition, personal hygiene and medical therapies. Progress towards universal ...

17 Sustainable Development Goals—which include such objectives as gender equality and quality education—and finds that no country is on track to meet all 17 goals by the target year of 2030.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is calling on countries in the region to accelerate ...

The Executive Secretary of ECA, Claver Gatete, has urged African leaders to demonstrate "bold leadership, decisive policies ...

At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets. The SDGs represent an urgent call to action by all countries in a global partnership. Universities help promote and ...

M ANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has made progress in more than half of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) since 2015, but the pace remains below expectations to meet the targets by ...

However, it is envisaged that many goals may not be met by ... More than ten years into the implementation of SDGs, public awareness about these critical targets is absent. Development is about ...

Water is a dealmaker for the Sustainable Development Goals, and for the health and prosperity of people and planet. But our progress on water-related goals and targets remains alarmingly off track, ...

Meeting the targets of nearly all of the SDGs will require an unprecedented amount of chemistry research and innovation. There are at least three aspects of the Industry, Innovation, and ...