Research centres and UN join forces for Sustainable Development Goals

The global goals address a wide range of issues including climate change and extreme poverty

Government ‘not working domestically to deliver sustainable development goals’

The UK Government seems more concerned with promoting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals abroad than working with businesses domestically to meet the targets. That’s according to a group of MPs, who believe the government’s “doughnut-shaped approach” – which is to see the goals as something for the UK to help other countries do, rather than […]

UN members pledge $100bn a year to tackle climate change

UN members have set a goal to mobilise $100 billion (£64bn) per year to tackle climate change by 2020. That’s part of the UN’s global framework, which includes 17 targets to eliminate poverty and take climate action over the next 15 years. The ‘Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ aims to strengthen […]