Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations goals for people for 2030
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Sustainable Development Goal 13
Target year for continuing the collective $100 billion climate finance commitment to support developing countries' climate mitigation efforts.
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| 2025 |
Sustainable Development Goal 8
Target date to end child labour in all its forms globally, as part of Sustainable Development Goal 8's Target 8.7, aiming to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking, and the worst forms of child labour, including child soldier recruitment.
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| 2025 |
Sustainable Development Goal 8
One of the UN-defined SDG 8 indicators was targeted to be achieved by this year, representing a specific intermediate milestone towards the sustainable development goal.
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| 2025 |
Sustainable Development Goal 6
Projected milestone where 50% of global population will be living in water-stressed areas.
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| 2025 |
Sustainable Development Goal 2
International target set to address stunting and wasting in children under five years of age as part of Sustainable Development Goal 2.
SDG Target 2.2 | Malnutrition: End all forms of malnutrition, including achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
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Proportion of children moderately or severely wasted - Sustainable Development Goals - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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| 2025 | Scheduled comprehensive review of the SDG indicator framework. |
| 2024 | Clarivate Plc signed the Publishers Compact, expanding the international support for the initiative. |
| 2024 | Springer Nature is set to launch Nature Cities, a journal relating to SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) and other SDGs. |
| 2024 | A machine learning study predicted Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) scores for different global regions up to 2030, forecasting varying levels of achievement. The study projected highest scores for OECD countries (80) and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (74), with lower scores for Sub-Saharan Africa (56). |
| September 29 2024 |
Global Goals Week
Conclusion of Global Goals Week 2024, marking the end of the awareness campaign focused on promoting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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| September 20 2024 |
Global Goals Week
Start of Global Goals Week 2024, a week-long event dedicated to raising awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals, running from September 20 to 29.
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| January 22 2024 | Anambra State ICT Agency receives Technology Awards at the 11th National Council on Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy (NCCIDE) meeting in Kano. Managing Director Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata accepted the awards on behalf of the Anambra State Government. |
| 2023 |
Sustainable Development Goal 10
A study was published analyzing the negotiation process of SDG 10, revealing the World Bank's significant influence in shaping the goal's definition and framing of inequality.
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| 2023 | Universities from Australia, Canada, and Great Britain dominated the top 100 rankings in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. |
| 2023 | PLOS joined the SDG Publishers Compact, reaffirming its commitment to advancing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by promoting scientific content related to the goals and committing to sustainable business actions. |
| 2023 | The Lowitja Institute is expected to launch First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal, an international peer-reviewed open access journal for First Nations research, in collaboration with Elsevier. |
| 2023 |
Inner Development Goals
The Sustainability Development Report revealed that less than 20% of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets were on track to be achieved, which prompted the creation of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) initiative to address slow progress through focusing on inner development.
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| 2023 |
Sustainable Development Goal 2
Up to 757 million people facing hunger globally, representing slightly less than 10 percent of the world population, with 20 million people at risk of famine in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria.
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| 2023 | The IPCC completed the publication of its Sixth Assessment Report, providing a critical analysis of climate change impacts and potential mitigation strategies. |
| November 2023 |
Inner Development Goals
The IDG Foundation was initiated by a collaboration of multiple organizations including 29k Foundation, Ekskaret Foundation, IMD International Institute for Management Development, LUCSUS Center for Sustainability Studies, Stockholm Resilience Center, The New Division, Flourishing Network at Harvard University, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
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| September 19 2023 |
Global Goals Week
First day of the high-level General Debate at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, with world leaders exploring solutions to global challenges and advancing peace, security, and sustainable development under the theme 'Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity'.
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| September 18 2023 |
Global Goals Week
Heads of State and Government gather at UN Headquarters in New York for the 2023 SDG Summit to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and provide high-level political guidance on accelerating Sustainable Development Goals.
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| September 15 2023 |
Global Goals Week
Global Goals Week 2023 officially begins, running from September 15 to 24, with an expanded event calendar from September 1 to October 15.
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| July 2023 | Organized a one-day training for selected journalists in Anambra State in collaboration with the State Ministry of Information, PA-CENT Technologies, and Bonitas Technologies. |
| July 2023 | WorldPop published the methodology used in their Papua New Guinea population estimation study, with the population estimate revised to less than 11 million. |
| July 2023 | At the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, speakers highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic and global crises were threatening decades of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| 2022 |
Sustainable Development Goal 13
A publication reported that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted progress on Sustainable Development Goal 13 and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes, with travel restrictions disrupting climate-related work and delaying planned actions.
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| 2022 | The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) established its own SDGs Academic Publishers Forum to provide information and support. |
| 2022 | Börsenverein (German Publishers and Booksellers Association) established a Sustainability Working Group with three Task Forces to address sustainable practices in publishing, covering production, logistics, reporting, and operations across different company sizes. |
| 2022 | Emerald Publishing commissioned its second global inclusivity report, continuing its assessment of diversity and inclusion in the academic sector. |
| 2022 | ALPSP University Press Redux conference discussed creating carbon-neutral supply chains and environmental implications of business travel, with experiments in remote meetings and 'flipped' conferencing. |
| 2022 | Times Higher Education Impact Rankings assessed 1,524 institutions from 110 countries and regions, evaluating their performance on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| 2022 |
Sustainable Development Goal 6
OECD estimated that approximately $1 trillion per year in global spending is needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6).
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| 2022 |
Sustainable Development Goal 7
Renewable energy-generating capacity in developing countries increased by 58% per capita, despite international financial flows to support renewable energy being 24% lower than in 2018.
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| 2022 |
Sustainable Development Goal 7
Global progress towards SDG 7 stalled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, highest number of violent conflicts, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine creating a massive refugee crisis.
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| 2022 |
Sustainable Development Goal 2
Russian invasion of Ukraine further jeopardizes the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 by disrupting global food production and supply chains.
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| 2022 | A comprehensive research project conducted a systematic meta-analysis of over 3,000 scientific articles to assess the political impacts and steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examining their discursive, normative, and institutional impacts across political systems. |
| 2022 | A meta-analysis concluded that governments had not substantially reallocated funding to implement the SDGs, with minimal changes to public budgets and financial allocation mechanisms. |
| 2022 | A meta-analysis review study revealed critical perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), suggesting they might potentially serve as a 'smokescreen of hectic political activity' that masks underlying stagnation and perpetuates business-as-usual approaches. |
| November 2022 | WorldPop conducted an unpublished population estimation study for Papua New Guinea, funded by the United Nations Population Fund, suggesting the country's population was close to 17 million, contrary to the government's previous estimate of 9.4 million. |
| September 16 2022 |
Global Goals Week
Global Goals Week 2022 officially begins, running from September 16 to 25, with an expanded event calendar allowing partners to host events from September 1 to October 15.
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| September 13 2022 |
Global Goals Week
The seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly opens under the theme 'A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges', addressing complex global crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine, humanitarian challenges, climate change, and global economic concerns.
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| January 18 2022 | Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo appointed Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata as the managing director/CEO of Anambra State ICT Agency, marking the formal leadership of the organization and its transition to active digital service operations. |
| 2021 | Springer Nature increases percentage of women in senior leadership positions to 43%. |
| 2021 | University of California Press launched Advances in Global Health, an open-access journal framed around the SDGs, with Fernando Mardones from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as the senior editor. |
| 2021 | Wiley reduced its print volume by 1.1 million copies (85 million pages of paper) as part of its sustainability efforts. |
| 2021 | PLOS introduced five new open-access journals focusing on SDG-related areas: PLOS Climate, PLOS Water (SDG 6), PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, PLOS Digital Health, and PLOS Global Public Health (SDG 3). |
| 2021 | The International Publishers Association (IPA) created the IPA SDG Dashboard, a repository for information about how publishers are addressing the SDGs. |
| 2021 | The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) published an Environmental Manifesto outlining environmentally responsible actions for publishers and organizations. |
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