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Facing another global crisis, governments are spending trillions to revive their economies amid growing calls from different corners to channel these funds to the underfinanced Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  Recently UNCTAD took a deep dive (hyperlink) into responses to two separate but comparable crises: the 2008/09 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.  The response to eachContinue reading “Unprecedented COVID-19 stimulus packages are not being leveraged to accelerate investment in the SDGs”

Rare opportunity to rethink the trade regime Trade-restrictive measures imposed by G20 governments have reached historically high levels, a trend that has only increased with the pandemic. Worldwide, supply chains are also constricting, and some countries are promoting reshoring of production due to both technological change and more inward-looking trade and economic policies. As experts and world leadersContinue reading “Trade policy can ensure inclusive prosperity in wake of COVID-19”

The year 2015 marked a turning point for development policies: from a period when development efforts focused on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which encapsulates a much broader—and much more ambitious—set of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The chapter explains the process that led to these ambitious goals,Continue reading “Rio+20 and Beyond: A New Era of Sustainable Development, Partnership and Interdependence”

Progress on fulfilling the Financing for Sustainable Development Agenda is slower than ever. This article considers constraints to financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addresses key obstacles: heightened geopolitical tensions around trade and technology, growing external debt amidst unresolved systemic issues; unmet expectations about private-public collaboration for development finance. There are opportunities to galvanize jointContinue reading “Why are we behind on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) finance and what can we do about it?”

In 2015, leaders of 193 countries, thousands of companies and civil society organizations agreed on the world’s biggest problems and established 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to address them in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With a vision of 9 billion people living well within the earth’s limits by 2050, upward of $25 trillionContinue reading “Opportunities for women in addressing the world’s biggest problems”

Global Sustainable Development Goals for people-centred economies and democracies Just three years ago our world leaders committed “to working tirelessly” for the full implementation of a “comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative goals and targets” (para 2). The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, also commonly referred to as the Global Goals, isContinue reading “How United Nations reform can support a reimagined democracy”

In Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices, 1st Edition Sustainable development is essential to a future of reduced human suffering, higher quality of life, and ongoing sustenance for the planet’s ecosystems. Designed to increase understanding, inform actions, enrich academic assignments, and enhance research, Macmillan’s Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, And Practices is a reference work intended to meetContinue reading “Empowerment of Women”