The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are an urgent call for all developed and developing countries to join in a global partnership.  The SDGs recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand in hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and bo ...

Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) involves deploying investment capital in a way that has a positive impact on society and the environment while aligning the investments with the United Nations' 17 SDGs.  Sustainable Development Investing (SDI) goes beyond traditional financial returns and seeks to ...

It is well known that recessions have economic and social impacts, while little attention is paid to their impact on the environment and ongoing climate action.  Past recessions have shown that a slowdown in economic activity and a shift in government priorities can have both positive and negative impacts on climate ch ...

Understanding the challenges and priorities in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires consideration of the complexity and diversity within the SDGs, addressing the unique geographic and economic conditions, and reliable and comprehensive data for performance-based evaluation.  While the SDGs Index ...

The SDG Transformation Center platform brings together tools and actionable instruments to support SDG data, policies and financing building on the latest insights from science and collaborates with stakeholders and decision makers.  Its SDG Index and Dashboards rank countries on SDG attainment and report global SDG pr ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) attributes observed climate fluctuations primarily to anthropogenic CO₂ emissions and claims that these emissions have caused a net radiative forcing of about 1 Wm-² (watt per square meter) since 1750, resulting in a global temperature increase of 0.8 to 1.1 °C.  Thi ...

Uncertainties characterizing climate science, the economy and their interrelationships are a compelling argument for considering ambiguity and misspecification in the economics of climate change.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) approach to dealing with uncertainty is like risk as defined in deci ...

SDGs are the most commonly used framework for the sustainability reporting of the top patent holders.  The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a globally agreed and accepted framework of practices with clearly defined indicators and goal-oriented recommendations that enable criteria-unbiased sustainability asse ...

Bottom-up data is key for addressing distributional impacts, as data on social dimensions often comes from local stakeholders.  Good examples of localized data exist that help understand the disproportionate impact of climate change and disasters across sectors, populations, and geographies.  Data collection methods, s ...

The SDG Tracker presents data across all available indicators from the Our World in Data database using official statistics from the United Nations and other international organizations to facilitate monitoring of progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  It is kept up-to-date with data and SDG developm ...

In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the central normative framework for sustainable development worldwide.  The effectiveness of governing by such broad global goals, however, remains uncertain and the question arises whether these 17 SDGs have had any political impact withi ...

The financial cost of climate change has been significantly underestimated, according to new research saying it could cut the world’s GDP by almost half.  A recent study from UNSW Sydney factors in the full global reach of extreme weather, suggests the damage to the world’s economy could be far worse than previously th ...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated during a monthly cabinet meeting on Sunday that Washington’s imposition of a 46% tariff on imports from Vietnam should be viewed as an opportunity for the Southeast Asian country to restructure its economy and diversify products and markets toward sustainable development ...

Scientists at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) have developed a climate model rating system and classified climate model outputs generated by the global climate community and included in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.   The tool evaluates the climate models and reveal ...

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The HLPF brings together ministerial and high-level representatives of governments, as wel ...