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
core
Scaling Up Climate Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]
, 2016 In 2015, UNDP released its first infographic report that presented the breadth and depth of our support on climate change over the past two decades. That report emphasized successes and noted the opportunities that climate action presents for countries ...
core
The Post-2015 Global Agenda: A Framework for Country Diagnostics [PDF]
, 2014 With the 2015 deadline for the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) drawing near, the global community is shaping a new set of international development goals for the longer term.
Hans Lofgren +2 more
core
Lebanon: Fig Holding and SDG#1 No Poverty
Poverty reduction is pivotal for sustainable development and has been identified as the first sustainability goal (SDG#1) by the United Nations. Poverty has remained a key challenge for countries in the Arab world, which is characterised by persisting levels of poverty and significant income inequalities, where the top 10% of people account for 64% of ...
Ng, Poh Yen +2 more
openaire +2 more sources
The disease of corruption: views on how to fight corruption to advance 21st century global health goals [PDF]
, 2016 Corruption has been described as a disease. When corruption infiltrates global health, it can be particularly devastating, threatening hard gained improvements in human and economic development, international security, and population health.
Clare, Jillian +6 more
core +1 more source
Analysing climate action plans of selected UK cities for their SDG alignment [PDF]
, 2019 In UK, the Climate change Act of 2008 has placed a binding target of reducing the net carbon emission in 2050 by at least 80% compared to the 1990 baseline. With a high share of urban population, the contribution of cities and urban areas towards climate
Bhattacharyya, Subhes +2 more
core
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
core
SDGs and Human Rights: how to measure States’ compliance? [PDF]
, 2016 In September 2015 UN General Assembly approved the SDGs and all over the world the expectations focused on the new UN Development Agenda. Apparently, issues concerning Human Rights and Human security, including absence of violence, promotion of ...
TASCIONI, GAIA
core +1 more source
Can International Trade Help Africa’s Least Developed Countries Achieve SDG-1?
, 2020 In order to reduce poverty and achieve Goal 1 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, countries’ foreign trade flows must be a driving force for productive activity, as proposed by the WTO-led (World Trade Organization) Aid for Trade initiative ...
R. M. Navarro-Pabsdorf +2 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Creating Low-carbon Communities: Evaluating the Role of Individual Agency and Systemic Inequality in San Jose, CA [PDF]
, 2019 Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with
Ronald, Erin Jessica
core +2 more sources