Category Archive for "News"

The 17Goals Basic Slide Set

Oct 09 2015

Use these slides — which provide a very basic introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals — as a way to present the…

17Goals Launch Event in Denmark: 500 + 20 + 1

Oct 07 2015

17 Sustainable Development Goals. More than 500 Danish high school students. 20 simultaneous workshops. And 1 new song, about the SDGs. There…

Climate Scoreboard updates you on where world is headed

Oct 05 2015

Climate Interactive’s Climate Scoreboard is a simple tool that counts up what the world’s nations have so far agreed to do, in…

Perspective: Hard-hitting backlash begins on the SDGs

Oct 04 2015

The honeymoon has been short: hard-hitting attacks and critiques of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals — as well as critiques of…

Tools for Transformation: The AtKisson Group Accelerator Toolkit

Oct 02 2015

As stated in Goal 17, (Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development), the phrase “global partnership” also means us — all of us, working in partnership, to…

UNEP’s new roadmap to an “inclusive green economy”

Oct 01 2015

If we are going to create a sustainable economy that provides decent jobs for all, without destroying the biosphere, we are going…

Free Book Maps Pathway to Action for the SDGs

Sep 30 2015

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), based in Japan, has published a comprehensive guide to how countries (and how the world)…

“Global Goals” Awakens Privatization Concerns

Sep 30 2015

The NGO-sponsored initiative Global Policy Watch (GPW) has questioned the relationship between the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the “Global Goals,” as…

Sweden Initiates “High-Level Group” of Heads of State for the SDGs

Sep 28 2015

Sweden’s Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, has initiated the creation of a special working group of nine heads of state, whose purpose is…

Relive the historic moment: 4:48 pm, 25 Sept 2015

Sep 27 2015

What was the best reporting on the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs at the United Nations? Hats off to The…