Sustainable Development Goals

[New] To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, approximately $7 trillion in private sector capital needs to be unlocked in developing countries.
[New] Last year Luxembourg launched a 10-step framework to implement the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals and drafted a climate law to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% until 2030.
With just 10 years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 7 by 2030, global efforts must be redoubled, particularly in Africa, or the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable, and modern energy.
Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 on access to clean water and sanitation for all before 2030 is worryingly off-track, bringing to light the challenges facing the water sector worldwide.
Biodiversity conservation will remain a priority of EU external action and a pillar for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as we move towards defining the world's post-2020 global biodiversity ambitions.
Industry leaders can join the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action that calls for net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as the Conscious Fashion Campaign, which works with global leaders to achieve Sustainable Development goals.
The world is not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) by 2030.
COVID-19 poses a real challenge to the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ending poverty by 2030.
The world was off track in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, even before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, but can get back on course by increasing investment in public services, showing solidarity on financing, and reshaping how people work, learn, live and consume.
From a global perspective, mandatory human rights due diligence brings opportunities to improve economic productivity, reduce inequalities, and improve livelihoods - all integral to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Greater collaboration will help accelerate progress towards achieving targets set out in Courtauld 2025 and the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 to halve per capita food waste by 2030.
Meeting the infrastructure-related Sustainable Development Goals in 2030 will require additional investment spending between 2015-30 of roughly 7 percent of GDP per year in SSA (excluding maintenance spending) - the highest of all EMDE regions.
The funding gap needed to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in EM economies will be in the order of $2.5 trillion to $3.0 trillion per year through 2030.
Malaysia is on the right track in halving road deaths by 2030, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN).
For developing countries to meet the data needs of the Sustainable Development Goals, current donor support for data and statistics programs will need to increase by nearly $200 million per year, the U.N. warns.
Nigeria will require additional 350 billion dollars to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will end in 10 years' time.
Nigeria needs a total of $350 billion to attain the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, by 2030 and has a current estimate of public sector gap of $100 billion.
Under business - as - usual scenarios, many countries in Africa would not achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.
No country was on track to achieve gender equality by 2030, the deadline to achieve the UN sustainable development goals.
The Ocean Decade will foster action at all levels of society toward achieving the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, through its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The world will need 69 million new teachers to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal in education.
The United Nations estimates that achieving its sustainable development goals for issues including poverty, clean water and gender equality by 2030 will require as much as $7 trillion a year, with an annual funding shortfall of $2.5 trillion in developing countries.

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Last updated: 27 September 2020