As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

Climate change is the single biggest threat to the global environment and socio-economic development—demanding an urgent transformation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: An Indian economist and member of a key government panel which formulates policy on social issues slammed the UN’s new development goals, saying that having so many goals and targets would ...

21 May 2025 - Football unites fans worldwide – but on Wednesday it matched the sport’s global reach with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the lead-up to World Football Day, marked on 25 ...

The world faces more interconnected challenges than ever before, shaped by new and evolving economic, environmental, political, and social dynamics. In an effort to encourage global cooperation, ...

Young leaders present SDG-aligned social entrepreneurial ideas as the Foundation returns to the UN venue where its ...

The Trump administration is undertaking a sweeping effort to claw back a range of prior United Nations commitments to promote internationally agreed development and anti-poverty goals, scale back ...

In 2015, the United Nations created an agenda for achieving sustainable development by 2030. Comprised of 17 goals, known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), they outlined values in the ...