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Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are 17 goals that all member states have agreed to try to achieve by 2030.

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Green-tinted goals

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge human-caused environmental pressures. Too little, too late?
August 4, 2015
Bread for the World's Eva Hanfstängl

World in Progress: Financing sustainable development

Bread for the World's Eva Hanfstängl talks to DW about the challenges of financing sustainable development.
July 15, 201508:03 min
International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

World in Progress: Financing the new development agenda

Financing sustainable development -- Lower oil prices impact Gulf - Trauma in Nepal - A soundscape of Mexico City
July 15, 201529:59 min
Äthiopien International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Abeba

Global development summit

The UN has laid down ambitious development goals for 2030. Funding them will also be a challenge
July 13, 2015
Dandelions in concrete jungle (Photo: DW/Helle Jeppesen)

Fertile soil is lost

What can be done to preserve fertile agricultural land, thus assuring food security?
April 21, 2015
Afrika Sierra Leone Kinder an einer Schultafel

UN education report

A UNESCO report found that just one third of countries achieved all UN education targets.
April 9, 2015
UNEP Director Achim Steiner

First UN Environment Assembly

The Kenyan capital is hosting the first ever United Nations Environment Assembly.
June 23, 2014
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Declaration on World Press Freedom Day

At a UNESCO conference in Paris, media experts and others called for freedom of expression, access to information and independent media to be fully integrated in the UN's post-2015 international development agenda.
May 21, 2014