The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date ...

The concept of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, in 2012. The objective was to produce a set of ...

The 2030 agenda is substantially more ambitious than the Millennium Development Goals. Rather than simply reducing extreme poverty and child mortality, for example, countries are now pledging to ...

As the deadline for the millennium development goals approaches, experts take stock of the successes, failures, and oversights, and look ahead to the next phase -- the sustainable development goals.

The eight Millennium Development Goals, designed to form a blueprint for international development, have had mixed results. Extreme poverty and global child mortality rates have been halved from ...

Doctor Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF's Species Programme, looks at the way forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, increase sustainable development and benefit species conservation.

The Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme established the event in 1989. In 1950, five years after the founding of the United Nations, world.

With just 500 days left before the Millennium Development Goals expire, it is important to acknowledge all that they have spurred the world to achieve.

OCTOBER 6, 2020 — Sixteen UTSA students have been named Millennium Fellows by the United Nations Academic Impact initiative and Millennium Campus Network. The fellowship is a cohort program that has ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the “Global Goals” came into effect this year. The SDGs are built upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the ...