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), ...

New York, 17 July – As preparations get underway for the Summit of the Future this September, the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development concluded today with UN Member States ...

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 ...

Japan on Monday pledged $1 billion over the next two years to back the UN’s development agenda, raising its profile as one of the world’s largest foreign aid donors. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida ...

With renewed urgency to tackle inequalities and restore trust in public institutions, the 63 rd session of the UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD63) will run from 10 to 14 February in New ...

Cash crunch makes sustainable goals tougher for poor countries Boosting financing 'absolutely central', says UN’s Steiner $4 trln needed, but just $300 mln there, says World Bank's Banga HAMBURG, ...

The effort, however, comes at a time when major global powers – namely the U.S. – are pivoting away from the kind of U.N.-centered cooperative framework envisioned by Astana. On March 4, the United ...

Investors seeking clues about where society is headed—and which trends could benefit—might look at the Sustainable Development Goals. Adopted by United Nations members in 2015, the 17 Sustainable ...

A UN conference aiming to rally fresh support for development aid begins in Spain on Monday with the sector in crisis as US-led funding cuts jeopardise the fight against poverty. At least 50 world ...