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Sustainable Homes Start with Smart Design
Homes play a major role in shaping both environmental outcomes and everyday living. From how a home is designed to how it uses energy, water, and materials, eac ...
April 29, 2026 | No Comments
Call for Sustainable Building
Around 39% of global CO₂ emissions come from buildings, with urbanization, economic growth and the need for cooling due to rising temperatures increasing the en ...
March 16, 2026 | No Comments
Global Press Freedom Under Attack
Press freedom is under attack worldwide. Today, the most serious risks include killings, imprisonment, surveillance, abusive laws, internet shutdowns, and the ...
March 15, 2026 | No Comments
SDG Economic Development
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. ...
March 14, 2026 | No Comments
Challenging IPCC Science
Uncertainties characterizing climate science, the economy and their interrelationships are a compelling argument for considering ambiguity and misspecification ...
March 13, 2026 | No Comments
Monitoring SDG Progress
The SDG Tracker presents data across all available indicators from the Our World in Data database using official statistics from the UN and other international ...
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Sustainable Built Environments & the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
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 ...
Posted on 15/03/26

Investing with SDG Outcomes
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 ...
Posted on 15/03/26

Recession and Climate Change
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 ...
Posted on 11/03/26

Challenges and Priorities in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: A Multi-Scaled Global Analysis
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 ...
Posted on 10/03/26

SDG Transformation Center
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 ...
Posted on 09/03/26

A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO₂-Global Warming Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence Contradicts IPCC Models and Solar Forcing Assumptions
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 ...
Posted on 08/03/26

Uncertainty and Climate Change: The IPCC Approach vs Decision Theory
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 ...
Posted on 07/03/26

Synergy Solutions for Climate and SDG Action: Bridging the Ambition Gap for the Future We Want
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 ...
Posted on 05/03/26

SDG Tracker: Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
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 ...
Posted on 04/03/26

Scientific Evidence on the Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals
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 ...
Posted on 03/03/26

SDGs and Inflation
The term "greenflation," which combines "green" meaning decarbonization and "inflation" meaning rising prices, has become widely known. As investment in fossil fuels has been curbed, demand for natural gas, which can have lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal, has increased, causing energy prices to rise. Addressi ...
Posted on 02/03/26

The Role of Green Buildings in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Numerous environmental, social, and economic development challenges are covered under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and green building plays a key role of in achieving the UN’s SDGs. Overcoming barriers and the adoption of solutions and methods to integrate non-renewable and renewable resources is a promisi ...
Posted on 01/03/26

Forget Trump’s Tariffs – Climate Change could Wipe 40% off World Economy
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 ...
Posted on 11/04/25

US Imposes 46% Tariff, Prompting Vietnam to Restructure Economy Toward Sustainable Development
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 ...
Posted on 07/04/25

Could Climate Change Be Worse Than We Thought? New Models Say Yes
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 ...
Posted on 03/04/25
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- 04/04/25 (Energy Live News) — Forget Trump’s Tariffs – Climate Change could Wipe 40% off World Economy — 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 ...
- 03/10/25 (Foreign Policy) — Comrade Trump — Why is he acting exactly like a Russian asset would? A few years ago, it would have looked like mission impossible for even the most capable Russian spy. Divide the United States from its allies? Undermining international mutualistic relationships, encouraging cooperative partnerships between nations? Withdrawal fr ...
- 27/03/25 (IISD) — UN Report Calls for Making Development Cooperation “Fit for Purpose” — The report, "Trends and Progress in International Development Cooperation", calls for a turn around in official development assistance (ODA) flows and for “development cooperation on quality, impact and effectiveness to be refocused and for the development cooperation architecture at both the global and country level t ...
- 21/03/25 (The New Republic) — Trump Hints U.S. Could Go to War with Allies Someday in Wild Presser — Donald Trump announced a new investment in military aircraft production Friday, revealing that he had contracted Boeing to develop “the world’s first sixth-generation” fighter jet, named the F-47 – and managed to threaten America’s allies in the process. “It’s something the likes of which nobody has seen before, in te ...
- 27/03/25 (Al Jazeera) — Trump Announces 25 Percent Tariffs on Cars, Ramping Up Trade War — United States President Donald Trump has announced a 25% tariff on imported cars and car parts, his latest salvo in a widening trade war that has stoked tensions with partners and allies. Speaking at the White House on 26 March, Trump said the tariffs would “take back” money from foreign countries that have been “taki ...
- 20/03/25 (Foreign Policy) — U.S. Allies Adjust Travel Advisories Amid Trump Immigration Crackdowns — The Trump administration’s hard-line approach to immigration is raising concerns among key allies and leading them to keep a closer eye on how their citizens are treated when they travel to the United States in the wake of recent detentions and deportations. Germany updated its advice for travelers heading to the Unit ...
- 22/03/25 (The Economic Times) — Donald Trump’s Major Makeover of US Diplomacy Leaves Many Allies at a Loss — Before President Donald Trump took office for a second time, European officials thought they had him figured out. He was transactional, they said, a man motivated by a good deal, some bragging they knew how to do business with him based on their interactions with him in his first term. But, Trump in 2025 is not the s ...
- 19/02/25 (POLITICO) — Trump’s America is Putin’s Ally Now — A war forces people to pick a side. And Donald Trump as seen by many in Europe is siding with Vladimir Putin. Europe’s politicians are beginning to grasp how profoundly their world has changed. They must now deal with an America that is at best skeptical and at worst hostile to the old world they represent. If ther ...
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