A key element in the vision of Aggie Square is sustainability — a broad concept that encompasses and inspired the massive project’s design at all levels, from its use of all-electric energy sources ...
Contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, driving equitable access to healthcare through technology and innovationEnhancing governance transparency and effectiveness to create ...
What Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In 2015 the United Nations created a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and ...
The Harvard Extension School appointed Michael J. Mortimer to lead the school’s Sustainability and Global Development Practice master’s degree programs earlier this year, as he seeks to fill gaps and ...
On July 24, 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a one-day public workshop to examine challenges and opportunities for a just transition and sustainable ...
Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...
With this year’s annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29) summit set to take place in a little over a month in Azerbaijan, the world’s attention ...
The United Nations issued the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a framework for organizing discussion and tracking progress toward global sustainability. The color of the map reflects ...
With nearly 600 million people projected to remain in extreme poverty by 2030 and the gap to finance the SDGs expected to widen to $4 trillion annually, the 2025 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) ...
The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...