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The 2023 SDG Summit – the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly

19 - 20 September 2023, New York, United States of America

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the High-level political forum on sustainable development 2023 – General debate “Building momentum towards the Sustainable Development Goals Summit”, Morning / afternoon sessions between 17 and 20, July 2023, New York

High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council

10 - 19 July 2023, New York, United States of America

8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum)

3 - 4 May 2023, New York, United States of America

Message by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Habitat Day 2022, 3 October 2022

Side-event organized in the margins of the 2022 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – Building back better and advancing implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

15 July 2022, New York, United States of America

Urgent nature action needed to salvage Sustainable Development Goals: UN report

The climate crisis, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine are threatening to stall progress on several key environmental targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), humanity’s blueprint for a better future, warns a new report from the United Nations.

Finding pathways to synergistic development of Sustainable Development Goals in China

While the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) index is a widely employed method of measuring progress in the United Nations (UN) SDGs, as it allows comparisons across countries and regions, it does not usually offer any indication as to how to move the SDGs forward.

Protecting and enhancing the environment to be at the heart of new infrastructure developments

Plans to ensure wildlife can be better protected and enhanced in developments have been set out in a consultation launched today by Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

Ensuring long-term sustainability: Biodiversity protection imperative for survival of humankind

While the efforts to combat the climate crisis are gathering traction slowly, the pace isn’t nearly fast enough as our ecosystems are collapsing and species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate.

ECOBARI to enable marginalised communities in India adapt to Climate Change

WOTR, a Pune-based development organisation dedicated to poverty eradication through sustainable ecosystem based adaptation, and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, along with other partners have launched the ECOBARI (Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Resilient Income) collaborative. The new ini ...

Why 'systems change' in 2021 demands better technology

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are focused on giant goals such as zero hunger, zero poverty, gender equity and climate change response. They were designed to be met by 2030, but the latest projections show we’re on track for 2092. Business as usual is clearly not working.

The pandemic has revived hope that a more sustainable world is possible

Some of the most striking images from the early days of the pandemic, when public health orders and lockdowns ground economies to a halt, were the arresting photos of the Himalayas, suddenly visible from across northern India, as decades of unrelenting smog finally abated.

Explainer: Biodiversity offsets and putting a price-tag on nature

Ecosystems and biodiversity are showing rapid decline as humans significantly alter nature. How can we ensure that nature doesn't become a casualty of rapid human development?

Comprehending the environmental dimensions of SDGs

Countries are on track to miss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to environmental protection, two UN entities warn in new report issued on 22 May to coincide with the International Day for Biological Diversity.

The SDGs: What Does It Look Like to Make Progress on Climate Action?

The Biden administration has been vocal about prioritizing climate action throughout the executive branch, including appointing the first ever Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, who has mostly recently been in talks with European leaders about climate action. The timing couldn’t ...

United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5): 'Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)'

22 - 23 February 2021, Online, Nairobi, Kenya

Gold and diamonds fail to shine as drivers of Amazon development

An analysis of social and economic parameters in gold and diamond mining regions in the Brazilian Amazon shows that these activities have done little to boost development for locals.

UNEA-5 Virtual Side-event: Strengthening Non-State Actor Commitments for Biodiversity in the Context of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals

18 February 2021, Online

Build forward better through nature in the post-pandemic era

The challenge is not ‘to build back better’ but ‘to build forward better’ where the nature and climate nexus lies within the development paradigm.

"One Yangtze" Sustainable Development Forum encourages communication between capital market and environmental protection field through ESG investing

Huatai Securities Co., Ltd. (601688.CH; 6886.HK; HTSC.LI; "Huatai Securities" or "The Company") sponsored the "One Yangtze" Sustainable Development Forum in Beijing, to encourage communication between the capital market and ecological environment protection field.

Putting nature first. The European Commission’s strategy for the Decade of Action

The year 2030 features prominently in any discussion about the biggest challenges facing the international community in the coming years. This is the deadline by which the 193 UN member states have committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that constitute a global action ...

Tanzania: NGOs' Reminded Role in Achieving SDGs

Local government leaders, members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and private sector were yesterday advised that achieving sustainable development goals (SGDs) requires serious commitment from every person who intends to see true changes.

Four ways cities must harness the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to build back after COVID

The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are vital to achieving a prosperous future for all. Only one, SDG #11, explicitly addresses cities – but in fact, 65% of the SDG targets can only be accomplished if cities and regions get involved.

Opportunity and risk in the nature-based bioeconomy

All that glitters is not gold, or so the expression goes. Similarly, as business leaders, academics, and policymakers gather for the third Global Bioeconomy Summit it's worth noting that all that's green is not necessarily sustainable.

Biodiversity: sharing is caring –

If I could sum up what Malta lacks the most in one word, it would be sustainability. The term is usually associated with issues only concerning the environment but sustainable thinking doesn’t just benefit the natural world; it also has positive economic and social implications.

How Public Development Banks Can Help Nature

This week’s Finance in Common Summit will mark the first time that leaders of the world’s 450 public development banks (PDBs) come together to discuss how to reorient investments toward sustainable development.

COVID-19 and the SDGs: moving forward after the crisis

COVID-19 is raging everywhere, resulting in much of the world in self-isolation and the closing of borders worldwide. With comparisons to the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, we are experiencing a literal one-in-100-year event.

Challenges in implementing Agenda 2030 for sustainable development: Where are we now?

On Sept. 25, 2015, 193 United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ushering a new era of international cooperation. An interdisciplinary framework of 17 “Global Goals” otherwise known as Agenda 2030, this year marks its fifth year of implementation. Although co ...

Québec biodiversity corridor master plan wins urban design award

Civiliti, Land Italia, Table Architecture, and Biodiversité Conseil have won a special jury prize from the National Urban Design Awards in the ‘sustainable development’ category for the master plan of a biodiversity corridor in Saint-Laurent, Qué.

SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Billions of people depend on the oceans for their food and livelihoods, but progress towards SDG14 remains stubbornly stuck in the slow lane.

Decade of Action on the Sustainable Development Goals is under way

The Sustainable Development Goals are known as the world’s blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 goals are ...

The effect of wildfires on sustainable development

With only 10 years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, world leaders in September 2019 called for accelerated action in the next decade to deliver at the scale and speed required. Climate change and global heating however, are increasing the likelihood and intensity of wildfires, ...

Private Sector Involvement, a Key Driving Force for SDGs

For the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, to come to fruition, a collaborative effort involving the private and public sectors is necessary, according to the National Development Planning Board, or Bappenas.

Top 20 for 2020: Lets make our workplaces sustainable

It’s 2020, a global super year with the potential for great things to happen. You’ve got your resolutions - you’re going to be healthier, happier and more sustainable (you’ve already got the reusable cup to prove it)! But could it also be the year your employer or business becomes sustainable to ...

Report Calls on Europe to Align Policies, Development Cooperation with SDGs

The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) have published the first-ever Europe Sustainable Development Report, assessing quantitative progress of the EU and its member states towards the SDGs.

'Wake-up call': Europe off track on all Sustainable Development Goals, report warns

Every country in Europe is failing against global sustainability targets, a stark United Nations-backed assessment has warned this week, sparking calls for EU political leaders to urgently draw up an ambitious plans to address climate change, pollution, biodiversity and overconsumption across th ...

Africa’s path to sustainable prosperity must move in step with environmental action

A blueprint for environmental action in Africa exists. It’s time we used it to transform the continent Africa is on the move. Six of the world’s fastest growing economies are African. The continent is urbanising rapidly, and governments are working to provide the infrastructure, skills and polic ...

The untapped potential of citizen science to track progress on the Sustainable Development Goals

“We are currently almost five years into the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, yet we do not have sufficient data for tracking the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals,” says Jillian Campbell, the Statistician leading UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) work on monitorin ...

Does sustainable development have an elephant in the room?

The inherently unequal relationship between the developed and developing world is hindering sustainable development.

Sustainable development goals only achievable through cross-disciplinary research

It is not possible to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDG) if science does not contribute with cross-disciplinary knowledge and understanding of how systems are interconnected. This is emphasized by a U.N. appointed panel of international researchers with the University of Copenhagen ...

World risks missing development goals, experts warn

Leading scientists say growing inequality and climate change will not only derail progress towards global sustainability goals but threaten human existence. Presenting a report at the United Nations in New York, Switzerland’s Peter Messerli external linksaid humans and the environment were close ...

Focusing on key sustainable development goals would boost progress across all, analysis finds

By using a mathematical network analysis to map the relationships identified by an International Council for Science report, the University of Bath research reveals that direct efforts focussed on a critical few: Life below Water, Life on Land, and Gender Equality, would reinforce the virtuous c ...

Deep transformations needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change call for deep transformations that require complementary actions by governments, civil society, science, and business.

Gender equality, education and the environment at the forefront of new SDG Advocate campaigns

Brazilian footballer “Marta” not only plays for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the Brazil national team as a forward, but with 17 goals – the same number as the SDGs! – she is the top scorer ever at FIFA World Cup tournaments - that's both for the men and women's cha ...

Wildlife trafficking and more hinder nations' sustainable development

Transnational environmental crime—wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, dumping hazardous waste and more—takes an estimated $91 to $259 billion bite out of the global economy and has strong ties to organized crime finance, says a new study from Michigan State University and published in Nature ...

Economic growth benefits wildlife but growing human populations do not

Do the UN's sustainable development goals promote or limit conservation?

HLPF Side Event Highlights Community-based Model of Landscape Management

15 July 2019: An event on the sidelines of the 2019 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) highlighted the ways in which a community-based model of landscape management can enhance the resilience of local ecosystems, protect biodiversity and support sustai ...

Will a Global Fund Help Deliver UN’s Development Agenda?

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 2019 (IPS) - The United Nations, which has been tracking both the successes and failures of its highly-ambitious Agenda for Sustainable Development, has warned that “progress has been slow” in many of the 17 Goals after four years of implementation.

Asia and Pacific on course to miss all Sustainable Development Goals, says UN region chief

Unless progress is accelerated, Asia and the Pacific are on course to miss all of the 17 Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the UN regional commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), told UN News at the Organization's Headquarters on Wednesday.

Why Biodiversity Matters: Mapping the Linkages between Biodiversity and the SDGs

Biodiversity is a concept difficult to understand or appreciate, let alone regulate and communicate.

Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief

The world’s people are demanding “transformative change that is fair and sustainable,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, calling on government leaders to use the upcoming slate of key United Nations meetings in September to “kickstart a decade of delivery and action for people ...

Science is ‘key’ to pushing forward the 2030 Agenda, UN development forum told

Romain Murenzi, Executive Director of the World Academy of Sciences Resource shared key findings of the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), which will be launched at the SDG Summit in September.

A quarter of Pacific islanders live below ‘basic needs poverty lines’, top UN development forum hears

In 2015, the UN set out a vision for “people, planet, peace and prosperity” through partnership and solidarity, when it adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Now is the time to seize ‘unprecedented opportunity’ of the Sustainable Development Forum, says ECOSOC President

Nations across the world now have an “unprecedented opportunity to talk to each other and learn from each other”, Inga Rhonda King, President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ESOSOC), said on Tuesday, kicking off the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in Ne ...

Global response to poverty and environmental goals 'not ambitious enough’

In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a “wealth of action” had been taken by governments across the world “the most vulnerable people and countries continue to suffer the most.”

Sustainable Development Needs a Hardware Update

BONN, Jul 8 2019 (IPS) - When UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs in September 2015, they signalled with the title Transforming our World that ‘business as usual’ is no longer an option and fundamental changes in politics and society are necessary.

UN’s Development Goals Remain Largely Elusive

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 2019 (IPS) - The United Nations, in a new report to be released next month, has warned “there is no escaping the fact that the global landscape for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generally deteriorated since 2015, hindering the effort ...

Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) National Capacity-building Workshop for Maldives

17 - 19 June 2019, Island of Dhiffushi, Maldives

Green Finance Leaders Convene to Develop Financial Solutions for Global Goals

Edinburgh, Scotland - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Scottish-Government backed Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), together with the New York Declaration on Forests Global Platform, gather experts in Edinburgh, Scotland today to develop financial solutions that drive ...

Are we actually making progress on the SDGs?

In 2015, United Nations member states, together with civil society and business, came together to prepare a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030.

Nature Champions Summit Calls for Putting Nature at the Center of Sustainable Development Agenda

30 April 2019: The Nature Champions Summit kicked off a series of multilateral meetings focused on building momentum towards 2020, when leaders representing 190 countries will come together with non-government actors for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Conventio ...

Biodiversity loss mars SDG success, report finds

An “unprecedented” loss of global biodiversity threatens the progress of more than 80 per cent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and puts 1 million animal and plant species at risk of extinction, a landmark scientific report has warned.

Rural crisis could derail global development goals: UN report

Deepening rural crises across the world is slowing down progress in hunger and poverty reduction, achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and could even become a prime reason responsible for missing the global climate targets, a recent report of the United Nations held.

The inaugural Nature Champions Summit closed Thursday with a call to put nature at the centre of the global discourse together with climate action and sustainable development.

Nature Champions Summit urges leaders to put nature at centre of sustainable development agenda

29 April 2019 – The inaugural Nature Champions Summit closed Thursday with a call to put nature at the centre of the global discourse together with climate action and sustainable development.

Leave No Ambition Behind: Why These 21 Targets Could Save the SDGs

2019 is a milestone year for the SDGs. It includes the first comprehensive review of progress on the entire 2030 Agenda since implementation began in 2016.

Biodiversity Conservation is the Way for Zero Hunger in Ghana

According to the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), by the year 2030, Ghana should have: 1) ended hunger and ensured access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round, 2) ended all forms of malnutrition, 3) doubled agricultural product ...

Landmark study finds tackling inequality is key to realising UN goals

A landmark study of the relationship between each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has found that tackling inequality in rich countries could unlock the prize of a better and more sustainable future for all.

In Action: How Asia Pulp & Paper is achieving SDG 15 Life On Land

In the first of a new series investigating how corporates are engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to accelerate strategic aims, edie looks at how Asia Pulp & Paper is driving out deforestation while improving the livelihoods of its workers in Indonesia.

Are Sustainable Development Goals Reaching Indigenous Peoples?

Life and death for whole communities hang in the balance of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that include eliminating poverty, conserving forests, and addressing climate change in a resolution adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2015.

Transforming Economies, States, & Societies – Building Evidence for Achieving SDGs

Following on from Finn Tarp, my predecessor, is a daunting prospect, but I look forward to working with my colleagues at UNU-WIDER and with our many partners to build on the achievements of the past 10 years.

Why the ocean holds the key to sustainable development

It is only 12 years until 2030, the deadline for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world has set itself an ambitious task.

Transboundary Water Cooperation And The Sustainable Development Goals

Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point.

Study Shows How African Countries are Preparing for Green Development

KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 11 2018 (IPS) - In order for African countries to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), they will require further human capacity building, and there must be involvement of the private sector from the start of the ...

Sixteenth regular session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN)

12 - 16 June 2017, Libreville, Gabon

Global Soil Week 2017: 'Catalysing SDG Implementation through a Soil and Land Review'

22 - 24 May 2017, Berlin, Germany

UNEP/CBD/COP/13/INF/19

Contribution of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 to the Sustainable Development Goals: Potential impacts of national priority actions identified in the regional capacity-building workshops

The theme of this conference, “biodiversity for sustainable development”, could not come at a better time. Finally, the world is waking up to the essential role of biodiversity and healthy ecosystems for all life on earth, including humans and our well-being. The opportunity for us to make lasting change has arrived.

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the opening of the ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity

International Expert Workshop on Biodiversity Mainstreaming

17 - 19 November 2015, Mexico City, Mexico

Roundtable discussion: Initiative of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on “Biodiversity for Poverty Eradication and Development, 2015-2018”

28 - 29 October 2015, Brussels, Belgium

UNCCD 3rd International Scientific Conference: "Combatiing desertificiation, land degredation and drought for poverty reduction and sustaiblable development - the contribution of science, technology, traditional knowledge and practice"

9 - 12 March 2015, Cancun, Mexico

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/45

Outcome Document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/16

Assessment of Barriers to the Implementation of Decisions of the Convention Related to Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/15

Progress Report on the Process of Integrating Biodiversity into the Post 2015 Framework for Sustainable Development

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/INF/22

The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) from Formation to Current Practice: A Progress Report

Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias addresses the eighth session of the Open Working Group on SDGs in New York.

Statement of the Executive Secretary for the Eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG8)

3 - 7 February 2014, New York, United States of America

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/2

Biodiversity and Sustainable Development – The Relevance of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

UNEP/CBD/WG-RI/4/4

Message to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/14/INF/33

Chairmen’s Report: Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity 2010: Getting the Biodiversity Targets Right - Working for Sustainable Development

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/12/INF/11

The Contribution of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in Meeting the 2010 Biodiversity Target, the Millennium Development Goals and Responding to the Challenges Identified by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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How to Market the GSPC beyond Botanical Gardens? - GSPC linkages to poverty alleviation and sustainable development

UNEP/CBD/RWSUCEE/1/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/RWSUCEE/1/1/ADD1

Organization of Work: Adoption of the Agenda <br> Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/6

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: review of the draft reports, in particular the draft synthesis report prepared for the Convention on Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/INF/6

Report of the Central and Eastern European Regional Expert Workshop on Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity

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