As world leaders returned from the once-a-decade International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, they ...

Echoing human security principles, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasizes a “world free of poverty, hunger, disease and want … free of fear and violence … with equitable and ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

Global sustainable development—a sector working to solve the world’s urgent challenges—is certainly not unfamiliar with these threats. Yet, while these problems may not be new, the contexts ...

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) sees education as the key to unlocking progress in all the global development goals.It teaches individuals to make informed decisions and take action, both ...

Where development is sustainable, everyone has access to decent work, quality health care and education. Natural resource use avoids pollution and permanent losses to the environment.

Likewise, USAID has recognized the importance of human-centered design thinking in their approach to sustainable development, and as a result, created a Global Development Lab in 2014 headed by a ...

The SDGs are too broad and vague—a fact that the U.N. implicitly acknowledges in its Sustainable Development Report 2022 that identifies a subset of SDG goals that need special focus.