Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Opinion: Bridging the Gap – How the SDG Fund is Paving the Way for a Post-2015 Agenda

By Paloma Duran
The countdown has begun to September’s Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with world leaders discussing the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the United Nations Open Working Group.

Women Leaders Call for Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Post-2015 Agenda

By Marianela Jarroud
Women leaders from every continent, brought together by U.N. Women and the Chilean government, demanded that gender equality be a cross-cutting target in the post-2015 development agenda. Only that way, they say, can the enormous inequality gap that still affects women and children around the world be closed.

Opinion: Water and the World We Want

By Corinne Schuster-Wallace and Robert Sandford
We have entered a watershed year, a moment critical for humanity.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Change

By Manipadma Jena
So much information about climate change now abounds that it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Scientific reports appear alongside conspiracy theories, data is interspersed with drastic predictions about the future, and everywhere one turns, the bad news just seems to be getting worse.

Millennium Development Goals: A Mixed Report Card for India

By Neeta Lal
Despite being one of the world's fastest expanding economies, projected to clock seven-percent GDP growth in 2017, India – a nation of 1.2 billion – is trailing behind on many vital social development indices while also hosting one-fourth of the world's poor.

Getting Bang for the Buck on New Development Goals

By Bjorn Lomborg
Right now, the United Nations is negotiating one of the world’s potentially most powerful policy documents. It can influence trillions of dollars, pull hundreds of millions out of poverty and hunger, reduce violence and improve education — essentially make the world a better place. But much depends on this being done well.

U.N. Touts 2015 as Milestone Year for World Body

By Thalif Deen
The United Nations, in a sustained political hype, is touting 2015 as a likely breakthrough year for several key issues on its agenda - primarily development financing, climate change, sustainable development, disaster risk-reduction and nuclear non-proliferation.

From Delhi Through New York to Paris

By Ramesh Jaura
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OPINION: Brazil Can Help Steer SDGs Towards Ambitious Targets

By Daniel Balaban
With the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expiring at the end of this year to be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will set priorities for the next fifteen years, 2015 will be a crucial year for the future of global development.

CORRECTION/Sustainable Energy Starts With the Sun

By Malini Shankar
It began with an experiment to install photovoltaic cells over an irrigation canal that forms part of the Sardar Sarovar canal network – a massive hydel power project across the River Narmada that irrigates some 1.8 million hectares of arable land in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Pacific Islands Call for New Thinking to Implement Post-2015 Development Goals

By Catherine Wilson
As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of poverty-alleviation targets set by the United Nations, come to a close this year, countries around the world are taking stock of their successes and failures in tackling key developmental issues.

European Citizens Call for Increased Aid to Developing World

By Thalif Deen
An overwhelming majority of citizens in the 28-member European Union (EU) - which has been hamstrung by a spreading economic recession, a fall in oil prices and a decline of its common currency, the Euro - has expressed strong support for development cooperation and increased aid to developing nations.

Sri Lanka Still in Search of a Comprehensive Disaster Management Plan

By Amantha Perera
About six months after a massive tsunami slammed the island nation of Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, large plumes of smoke could be frequently seen snaking skywards from the beach near the village of Sainathimaruthu, just east of Kalmunai town, about 300 km from the capital, Colombo.

UNIDO Development Initiative Gains Momentum in ACP Nations

By Valentina Gasbarri
The inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) initiative of the U.N. Industrial Development Organisation to promote industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalisation and environmental sustainability is gaining momentum in the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. 

‘Record’ Illicit Money Lost by Developing Countries Triples in a Decade

By Carey L. Biron
Developing countries are losing money through illicit channels at twice the rate at which their economies are growing, according to new estimates released Tuesday. Further, the total volume of these lost funds appears to be rapidly expanding.

Mangrove Conservation Paves the Way to a Sustainable Future

By Malini Shankar
When the Asian tsunami washed over several Indian Ocean Rim countries on Boxing Day 2004, it left a trail of destruction in its wake, including a death toll that touched 230,000.

OPINION: Women Must Be Partners and Drivers of Climate Change Decision-Making

By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
As leaders from around the world gather in Lima, Peru this week to discuss global cooperation in addressing climate change, a woman in Guatemala will struggle to feed her family from a farm plot that produces less each season.

U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals Remain Intact

By Thalif Deen
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has refused to jettison any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by an Open Working Group of member states: goals aimed at launching the U.N.'s new post-2015 development agenda through 2030.

Climate and Post-2015 Development Agenda Talks Share the Same Path

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
The international community’s post-2015 development agenda will depend, in key aspects, on whether the delegates of 195 countries meeting now at the climate summit in the Peruvian capital reach an agreement to reduce global warming, since climate change affects all human activity.

Civil Society Freedoms Merit Role in Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Mandeep S.Tiwana
Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, an advocacy NGO, is facing criminal charges for sending a tweet that said: “many Bahrain men who joined terrorism and ISIS have come from the security institutions and those institutions were the first ideological incubator”.

Water and Sanitation Report Card: Slow Progress, Inadequate Funding

By Tim Brewer
The Ebola crisis has thrown into sharp relief the issue of water, sanitation and hygiene in treating and caring for the sick. Dying patients are being taken to hospitals which never had enough water to maintain hygiene, and the epidemic has pushed the system to the breaking point.
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