Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

What Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In 2015 the United Nations created a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and ...

Leena Srivastava is Vice Chancellor and Honorary Executive Director at TERI University, New Delhi, India. December 2014, No. 3 Vol. LI, Conference Diplomacy Sustainable development is by definition ...

In 2015, the United Nations adopted a set of goals to end poverty, eradicate inequality and halt or reverse the severe effects of climate change by 2030. These 17 goals are known collectively as the ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. With this year’s ...

Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm in July: “Halfway to ...

As darkness fell across New York City on the 25th of September 2015, the headquarters of the United Nations lit up with brightly colored infographics, images, and slogans celebrating the adoption of a ...

Cristina D'Alessandro is currently an officer at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, mentioned in the article, but in a different field to the one covered in the text: she deals ...

The biggest obstacle to Bangladesh’s progress and planned development is bureaucracy. Bureaucratic complexities often stand in the way of any creative, effective and sustainable development initiative ...