SDG Blog

Centering disability justice in the fight for climate action

By Edward Ndopu, UN Secretary-General’s SDG Advocate and award winning, internationally acclaimed activist and humanitarian

The Urgent Case for Information Integrity

By Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Department of Global Communications

The case for information integrity has rarely been more compelling, or more urgent.

In all my years in communications, I can’t say I ever worked in such a troubled environment - an information ecosystem so polluted that voices for positive change are struggling to make themselves heard.

The potential impacts of this - on democracy, human rights and progress on the Sustainable Development Goals are devastating.

Using the GSDR to guide a credible and effective second half of the 2030 Agenda

By Åsa Persson, Research Director and Deputy Director of Stockholm Environment Institute and member of the Independent Group of Scientists that prepared the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report

Transformation is possible, and inevitable.

Small Island Nations are at the forefront of our global crises: It’s time we follow their lead in shaping the solutions

By Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.

Over the past six weeks, the United Nations has facilitated an intensive round of consultations and meetings in the three regions of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the world.

Recommitting to finance the Sustainable Development Goals

By the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

This article was first published by IISD SDG Knowledge Hub as part of a special guest article series, a collaboration between UN DESA and IISD.  

If we can rescue banks, we can rescue the hopes of developing countries

By António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

The meltdown of several major banks in recent months made headlines around the world. More than $250 billion was mobilized during the course of just one weekend to protect banks in the United States and Switzerland.

But there has been no such rescue attempt for scores of developing countries struggling to deal with a cascade of crises, from climate-related shocks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine. They are treated as though failure is an acceptable option.

How science, technology and innovation can be leveraged to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve the 2030 Agenda

By Ambassador Mathu Joyini and Ambassador Tom Woodroffe, Co-Chairs of the 8th Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs

We must secure financing to prevent a sustainable development divide

By Navid Hanif, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development

Our world is experiencing unprecedented multifaceted crises that threaten the implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Many developing countries are still coping with the scarring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic making their economies recover at a very slow pace. While the war in Ukraine poses a serious threat to global peace and security, it also caused a significant increase in food and energy prices that are unsustainable for the most vulnerable populations around the world.

We need actions and solutions that drive the change we need

− Improving the governance of water is an urgent priority for all of humankind

By Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands and Sulton Rahimzoda, Special Envoy of the President of Tajikistan for Water and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea

Amid crisis there is reason to hope – if we come together to pursue social justice

By Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, International Labour Organization

Coming out of the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, I reflected on what the current state of affairs means for the world of work and the Sustainable Development Goals.