17 Goals to Transform Our World
Governments, businesses and civil society together with the United Nations are mobilizing efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030. Universal, inclusive and indivisible, the Agenda calls for action by all countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.
Explore this site to find out more about the efforts of the UN and its partners to build a better world with no one left behind.
As cities boom, forests key to meeting demands for water, food and energy – UN
With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050, forests are critical part of the solution to the unprecedented demand for water, food and energy that these cities will [...]
The Global Festival of Action kicks off to make SDGs a reality
A new type of United Nations gathering – the Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development – has brought together key players of sustainable development, change-makers and innovators from across the globe to share the [...]
UN spotlights rainwater recycling, artificial wetlands among ‘green’ solutions to global water crisis
With five billion people at risk of having difficulty accessing adequate water by 2050, finding nature-based solutions, such as China’s rainwater recycling, India’s forest regeneration and Ukraine’s artificial wetlands, is becoming increasingly important, according to a United Nations report released Monday at the world’s largest water-related event in Brazil.
UN forum to spotlight ways ICT can help beat poverty and boost development
Making information and communication technology (ICT) readily available for vulnerable countries and harnessing it’s potential to help tackle a raft of ills – from disaster risk reduction to reaching ‘zero hunger’ – will be among the issues on the agenda at an annual United Nations information forum that kicked off Monday in Geneva.
Major reports on biodiversity, ecosystem services to be launched at UN-backed meeting in Medellin
With our planet’s flora and fauna facing unprecedented threats, science and policy experts are set to gather next week in Medellin, Colombia, for a United Nations-backed meeting to consider five landmark reports aiming to inform better decisions by Governments, businesses and even individuals on biodiversity, and issues of land degradation and restoration.
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EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Urges Inclusive Global Action on Violence Against Women and Girls GalleryEU-UN Spotlight Initiative Urges Inclusive Global Action on Violence Against Women and Girls
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EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Urges Inclusive Global Action on Violence Against Women and Girls
In the margins of the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed and European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica discuss the Spotlight Initiative
Making progress on sustainable development, four least developed countries tapped to graduate from ranks of poorest
With increasing national earning power as well as access to better health care and education, four countries—Bhutan, Kiribati, São Tomé and Principe and Solomon Islands—will be recommended for graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category, the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) announced today.
“Little x Little” – a Gen Z-Led campaign in support of the Sustainable Development Goals
“Little x Little,” a global movement led by Generation Z to fix the future, officially launched today, setting an audacious goal of inspiring 2 billion acts of good by 2030 in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.