Sustainable development
Mode of human development
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| 2025 | Scheduled comprehensive review of the SDG indicator framework. |
| 2024 |
Malaysian Green Transition
Malaysian government launched the Energy Exchange Malaysia (Enegem), a platform to facilitate cross-border green electricity trade within the ASEAN region. The platform initiated a 100-megawatt pilot auction to supply green electricity from Peninsular Malaysia to Singapore, targeting licensed Renewable Energy Bidders in the Singapore Electricity Market.
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| 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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| April 2024 | Ten green groups called for a veto of the San Tin project's environmental impact assessment, criticizing it as 'the worst wetland assessment since EIA regulations came into place in 1998'. |
| April 2024 |
Green building
International Energy Agency (IEA) published a report highlighting buildings' energy consumption and future energy demand projections.
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| 2023 |
Energy poverty and cooking
International Energy Agency (IEA) published a report emphasizing the urgent need to achieve universal clean cooking access by 2030, estimating an annual investment requirement of US$8 billion.
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| 2023 |
Energy poverty and cooking
IRENA released a series of reports highlighting slow progress toward universal clean cooking access and the need for more investment in renewable cooking technologies.
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| 2023 |
Malaysian Green Transition
Malaysian government launched the Sustainable and Circular Economy Roadmap, a comprehensive plan to transition the country towards a circular economy, focusing on resource efficiency, waste reduction, and natural system regeneration.
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| 2023 |
Malaysian Green Transition
Malaysia achieved a significant milestone in renewable energy, increasing the share of renewable energy in the national grid to 22%, marking a substantial improvement from the previous decade.
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| 2023 |
Gross ecosystem product
15 local governments in China developed guidelines to implement GEP, initiating approximately 200 related projects.
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| 2023 |
Green building
Electric cars reached 20% of total vehicle sales, marking a significant milestone in electric vehicle adoption.
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| 2023 |
Climate Change Isn't Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism
Mike Hulme published the book 'Climate Change Isn't Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism' through Polity Press, offering a critical perspective on climate change discourse and politics.
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| 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 | 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 | 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 |
Climate change education
UNESCO hosted the World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona, advancing global efforts in climate change education and sustainable development.
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| 2022 | Nuclear power generates over a quarter of all low-carbon energy worldwide, establishing itself as the second largest source after hydropower. |
| 2022 |
Malaysian Green Transition
Malaysia launched the National Biodiversity Policy, establishing a comprehensive framework to protect and sustainably manage the country's biodiversity from 2022 to 2030. The policy focuses on integrating biodiversity considerations across various sectors and decision-making processes to support both environmental conservation and sustainable economic development.
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| 2022 |
Green building
Boston Consulting Group released a report highlighting that investments in developing greener forms of cement, iron, and steel could lead to significant greenhouse gas reductions, surpassing potential reductions in electricity and aviation sectors.
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| 2022 |
Green building
Heat pump sales tripled compared to 2015 levels, indicating growing adoption of energy-efficient technologies.
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| 2022 |
Aid for Trade
The Eighth Global Review was held, continuing the long-standing effort to support trade capacity in developing countries.
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| 2022 |
Nature conservation
United Kingdom introduced the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act, legally recognizing vertebrates, decapod crustaceans, and cephalopods as sentient beings, expanding conservation ethics to include animal welfare.
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| 2022 |
Nature conservation
IPCC report emphasizes the critical need to conserve 30% to 50% of Earth's land, freshwater, and ocean areas to mitigate climate impacts and support biodiversity.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| September 2022 |
Social enterprise
Whitebox Enterprises hosted the Social Enterprise World Forum in Brisbane. Simultaneously, Social Enterprise Australia published a sector assessment report titled 'Business for Good', revealing over 12,000 social enterprises in Australia employing more than 206,000 people and contributing $21.3 billion to the economy.
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| 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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| August 2022 |
Climate change education
New Jersey implemented its comprehensive climate change education standards across all content areas, becoming the first state in the U.S. to do so.
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| July 2022 |
Social enterprise
Social Enterprise Australia was publicly launched, dissolving the previous Advisory Committee and appointing a formal Board of Directors to lead the organization's efforts.
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| April 23 2022 |
Social enterprise
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob officially launched the Social Entrepreneurship Action Framework 2030 (SEMy2030), providing a new national direction for social entrepreneurship development in Malaysia.
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| February 2022 |
Social enterprise
Social Enterprise Australia Ltd was officially incorporated, marking a formal step in developing a national strategy for social enterprises in Australia.
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| 2021 |
Energy poverty and cooking
IRENA reported 2.3 billion people lacking access to clean cooking technologies globally.
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| 2021 |
Energy poverty and cooking
The Global Burden of Disease study estimated 3.1 million deaths related to cooking-related pollution, with the highest death rate occurring in Africa.
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| 2021 |
Malaysian Green Transition
Malaysia launched the Green Technology Master Plan, a comprehensive policy framework covering six key sectors: energy, manufacturing, building, transport, waste, and water, aimed at guiding the country's green transition.
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| 2021 | ESG reporting requirements changed in the EU and UK, with the EU beginning to enforce the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) to unify climate risk disclosures across the private sector by 2023. |
| 2021 |
Green building
First low-cost and sustainable 3D printed house made from a clay-mixture was completed, representing a significant innovation in green building technology.
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| 2021 |
Nature conservation
Global conservation status report indicates 16.64% of land and 7.9% of oceans were protected, showing progress in nature conservation efforts.
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| 2021 | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began publishing its Sixth Assessment Report, comprehensively assessing scientific, technical, and socio-economic information related to climate change. |
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