A Regional Socio-Economic Life Cycle Assessment of a Bioeconomy Value Chain [PDF]
, 2020 A bioeconomy tackles sustainable development at both the global and regional levels, as it relies on the optimized use of renewable bio-based resources for the provisioning of food, materials, and energy to meet societal demands.
Bezama, Alberto +4 more
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Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]
, 2017 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity call for specific attention to the poor and vulnerable.
Craig Kullman +3 more
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Monitoring sanitation and hygiene in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development: A review through the lens of human rights [PDF]
, 2016 International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation has been jointly carried out by WHO and UNICEF through their Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). With the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era in 2015, the JMP has proposed a post-2015
Flores Baquero, Óscar +3 more
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Driving improvements in emerging disease surveillance through locally-relevant capacity strengthening [PDF]
, 2017 Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) threaten the health of people, animals, and crops globally, but our ability to predict their occurrence is limited. Current public health capacity and ability to detect and respond to EIDs is typically weakest in low ...
Cleaveland, Sarah +6 more
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Opportunities and challenges for the sustainability of lakes and reservoirs in relation to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) [PDF]
, 2019 Emerging global threats, such as biological invasions, climate change, land use intensification, and water depletion, endanger the sustainable future of lakes and reservoirs.
Goethals, Peter, Ho, Long Tuan
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Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Includes the SDG Index and Dashboards. Sustainable Development Report 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 The Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents an updated SDG Index and Dashboards with a refined assessment of countries’ distance to SDG targets. The report has been successfully audited for the first time by the European Commission Joint Research ...
Fuller, G. +4 more
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Oceans and the Sustainable Development Goals: Co-Benefits, Climate Change & Social Equity [PDF]
, 2017 Achieving ocean sustainability is paramount for coastal communities and marine industries, yet is also inextricably linked to much broader global sustainable development—including increased resilience to climate change and improved social equity—as ...
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor +3 more
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Health Inequalities in Europe: Setting the Stage for Progressive Policy Action [PDF]
, 2018 While the health of Europeans has improved over recent years, differences by gender, birthplace, and/or socioeconomic background persist. This report maps the extent of such health inequalities, its determinants, and costs to society.
Bambra, Clare +2 more
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Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 2017 Update and SDG Baselines [PDF]
, 2017 The JMP 2017 update report presents indicators and baseline estimates for the drinking water, sanitation and hygiene targets within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade [PDF]
, 2020 Progress for both SDG 2 and SDG 6 has been unsatisfactory, with several indicators worsening over time, including an increase in the number of undernourished, overweight and obese people, as well as rapid increases in the number of people at risk of ...
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
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