SDG Blog

Partner with us for Partnership Forum 2022

By Collen Vixen Kelapile, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Partnerships mean different things to different people. To some, partnerships can mean sharing the financial burdens and profits of joint ventures. To others, partnerships may entail a deeper commitment to common objectives and working with others to find solutions to shared problems.

Ride the Rising Wave to the 2022 UN Ocean Conference

By Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN SG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean

By now you would all have heard the mantra, there can be no healthy planet without a healthy Ocean, and the Ocean’s health has been measurably in decline for some time now. We need to take to heart that all of us have been party to driving the decline in the Ocean’s health. Thus, we all have a role to play in developing and implementing the solutions.

Building an open, free and secure digital future for all

By Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Officer in Charge of the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology

If you are reading this online, you are fortunate to be in the third of humanity that has access to Internet. 2.9 billion people, particularly in Least Developed Countries, are not as lucky and they are being left behind even further in our brave new digital world.

Impacting climate as a young innovator

By Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Founder of C2X and MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium Impact Fellow

From a kid in a small village in China to Forbes 30 under 30

Moving the world in the right direction

By Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety and Michelle Yeoh, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and Actor share their aspirations for achieving sustainable transport globally

With the second United Nations Sustainable Transport Conference taking place in Beijing this month, we, as partners in life and mission, want to share our thoughts on sustainable transport’s critical role in driving sustainable development, climate action and road safety.

Together, we can change the way we power the world

By Alok Sharma, President of COP 26 Climate Conference

Solar changed Neville’s life. I saw this for myself when, as UK Secretary of State for International Development, I visited his home in Kenya, and he told me how off-grid solar power was helping him to study for his degree.

Ready to keep the promise of the SDGs

By Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

During this pandemic, I had the honour of delivering a commencement speech. In preparing for my remarks, I thought about the future young people face today and how I felt at that age, full of energy and aspirations, ready to take on the world.

“Ready” is such a loaded word. These past 15 months have shaken up everyone on our planet. Very few communities or countries were prepared for everything that has come our way.

A recovery that works for everyone

By Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, World Bank

As the world continues to grapple with what it means to ensure an inclusive recovery, we must remember that persons with disabilities remain disproportionately excluded from accessing adequate health, education, transportation, and other basic services.

We need a green revolution for technology

By Daron Acemoglu, MIT Economics

Automation and AI (artificial intelligence) are fundamentally reshaping our labour markets, yet they are often seen as problems of developed economies of the West. That is a mistake.

The cool solutions to Africa’s burning problems

By Adekoyejo Kuye, Project Lead, Manamuz Electric LTD