Sustainable lifestyles, green-tech innovation, and government-led transformation each offer promising routes to make significant progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ...

With less than five years remaining to 2030—and forests, a key driver of climate resilience, livelihoods and food security, under threat— the United Nations today launched The Global Forest Goals ...

11 July 2025 - “The multilateral system is the best we've got. There is no other system that can help us to deal with our global problems,” says Bob Rae, President of the Economic and Social Council ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. September 23 - The pressing question facing us all as citizens of the planet is what are the consequences of failing to ...

June 27 - 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”.

A busy floating market in the Mekong Delta, in Vietnam. Because reservoirs capture riverine sediment, continued construction of hydropower dams in the Mekong River basin will accelerate the erosion of ...

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 ...

Acknowledging that more than half of the world's population resides in cities, urban development was formally integrated into ...