More: Sustainability
How can innovation and PPPs support sustainable production and the shift to a circular economy?
A circular economy is one that designs most pollution and waste out of the system, extracts maximum value from resources and allows natural capital...
UNESCO promotes Internet Universality indicators to advance SDGs at WSIS Forum 2018
Building on the vibrant consultation that UNESCO conducted on defining the Internet Universality Indicators at the WSIS Forum in 2017, UNESCO hosted a high-level...
Green technological innovation key to sustainable development
“Technological innovation and the development of environmental goods are key to ensuring demand-driven industrialization can be sustainable,” concluded participants today at the launch of...
Good Tourism Practices to Advance Sustainable Development in the Americas
Concrete examples of how to advance sustainable development through tourism take centre stage in the first joint publication between the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)...
As cities boom, forests key to meeting demands for water, food and energy
With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050, forests are critical part of the solution to the unprecedented...
Forum held in Kigali on increasing access to sustainable energy in East Africa
The Sustainable Energy Forum for East Africa took place between 19 and 21 March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda. Over 400 high-level representatives from government,...
Energy has a role to play in achieving universal access to clean water and sanitation
The world has a water problem. More than 2.1 billion people drink contaminated water. More than half the global population – about 4.5 billion people...
United Nations Drowning Prevention Group launched on World Water Day 2018
Ambassadors from across the world have highlighted the need for global drowning to be tackled if the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals are to...
Boosting Energy Access through Parliamentary Action
Belgian Parliamentarian, Andries Gryffroy, shares his views on enabling energy access through pro-renewables policy making
Parliamentarians from around the world will gather next week in...
Ethiopia’s forests, an undervalued resource
In Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa after Nigeria, policymakers are trying to make their nation’s economic development more sustainable.
One of the...