Additionally, 19% of Americans say they are ‘moderately proud,’ whereas 11% say they’re only ‘a little proud’ to represent ...

The UN Sustainable Development Report 2025 shows only 17% of SDG targets are on track. India ranks 99th, marking progress, ...

Vietnam–Canada relations continue to flourish, with science and technology listed among the seven priority areas of bilateral ...

Launched in September 2015 by the United Nations (UN) Summit in New York, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a 15-year plan grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights aimed at ...

The world set 17 sustainable development goals or SDGs at a UN meeting in 2015. The promise was to achieve them by 2030. But a number of factors have slowed progress. A new report said that, at ...

Presentation - State of affairs Unlike for the Millennium Development Goals, the international community has decided this time to incorporate the financial and non-financial resources needed to ...

The 17 SDGs replace MDGs but grow in scope and ambition, setting 169 targets applicable for developed and developing countries. The targets cover the social, economic, and environmental areas (UN, ...

The Sustainable Development Goals – the targets adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 – are truly extraordinary. When taken together and at face value, they are not so much a programme of 17 ...

So, in 2015, after an assessment, the world came up with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a follow up to the MDGs. Many of those focus on the environment.

Looking back, the eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators of the MDGs are a model of modesty and focus compared to the 17 goals, 169 targets, and 231 indicators of the SDGs.

When the eight Millennium Development Goals [2] (2000 to 2015) were proclaimed by the GA on 14 December 2000, there was hope that the goals would be met. The time was right and the level of ...