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Sustainable development: preparing for 2015

29 February 2016

  • People wait for cooked food at a feeding center at a camp for Somalis displaced by drought and famine

    New deal, old mess? Making the global goals work for the most fragile countries

    If 22 countries have been labelled as ‘least developed’ since 1971, what needs to change to include them in the new sustainable development agenda?

22 February 2016

  • An electoral officer scans the thumb of a voter using a biometric system at a polling station in Lagos.

    Biometrics in aid and development: game-changer or trouble-maker?

    Biometric technology offers greater efficiency and value for money, but how much can we rely on it to ensure no one is left behind?

4 February 2016

  • Tom Noytuna uses newly installed Telstra telephone to call clan members to a ritual ceremony at Korlobidahdah in Arnhem Land

    From widows to indigenous people: can the SDGs really leave no one behind?

    The UN’s global goals promise to include even the most marginalised people in plans for sustainable development. Is this possible and is it even a good idea?

3 February 2016

  • The Healey International Relief Foundation helps provide healthcare services to vulnerable populations in Sierra Leone.

    First steps towards meeting the global goals – your stories and images

    At the start of the year, we asked you what initial moves you were making to achieve the sustainable development goals. Here are your stories and images

26 January 2016

  • ETHIOPIA-ENERGY-WINDFARM<br>TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JENNY VAUGHAN Men walk along a road with cattle near turbines at Ashegoda wind farm in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, on November 28, 2013. The farm, built by France's Vergent Group for 230 million euro ($313 million), is the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa with a capacity of 120 megawatts. With its multi-billion dollar projects in wind, hydropower, solar and geothermal, Ethiopia is pioneering green energy projects on the continent. The Horn of Africa nation aims to supply power to its 91 million people nearly half currently have no access -- boost its economy by exporting power and become carbon-neutral by 2025. AFP PHOTO/JENNY VAUGHAN (Photo credit should read JENNY VAUGHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

    Seven ideas on how to finance the SDGs

    Where will the ‘billions to trillions’ of dollars needed for the sustainable development goals come from? Our expert panel suggest funding methods

20 January 2016

  • The slogan “No Plan B” is projected onto the Eiffel Tower as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

    Wanted: unprecedented collaboration to solve poverty and climate change

    Dominic Waughray
    The SDGs have been set and a climate target agreed. The only question that remains is how the international community will meet them

15 January 2016

  • A man carries empty water pitchers

    Live Q&A: Financing the SDGs - where will the money come from?

    What new funding models will help accelerate progress towards the sustainable development goals? Join an expert panel on Thursday 21 January from 1-3pm GMT to discuss

8 January 2016

  • Activists of the Nationalist Congress Party hold lighted candles during a protest in Mumbai, India

    The world's 3.5bn young people are the key to change – let's not shut them out

    Andrew Devenport, Nik Hartley and Rob Williams
    Ignoring youth in the developing world will stall progress towards the global goals. We need to show that we’re serious about enabling young people to lead

5 January 2016

  • An Afghan boy walks with balloons for sale on a cold winter’s day in Kabul.

    First steps towards achieving the SDGs - share your stories and images

    Now 2016 is here and the real work is beginning, we’d like to see what initial moves you are making to achieve the global goals in 15 years time

21 December 2015

  • A Muslim woman mourns by the grave of her relative during the funeral of 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Potocari July 11, 2009. Each year, bones are matched to a name and buried in a mass funeral on July 11, the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys by the Bosnian Serb forces. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

    Countries must be honest about conflict deaths to know the true impact of war on development

    Andrew Mack and Robert Muggah
    Governments reluctant to publish data on deaths from conflict must get on board if we are to reduce all forms of violence everywhere

16 December 2015

  • A victim of domestic violence shows her head wound patched up with tape in a women’s shelter in Port Moresby.

    Two-thirds of women in Papua New Guinea suffer domestic abuse – how can it be stopped?

    The global goals aim to acheive gender equality but in a country where 67% per cent of women suffer from domestic abuse, men must be part of the solution

11 December 2015

  • Amina J Mohammed

    $100bn? A drop in the ocean, says environment minister Amina Mohammed

    Nigeria’s environment minister says the international community must prove it is serious about meeting climate change’s financing challenge

22 October 2015

  • Children on a boat, Philippines

    Nine things we learned about the global goals

    With hundreds of meetings during the sustainable development goals summit, what was actually said? We round up the key moments

24 September 2015

  • David Miliband speaking at Unicef/Guardian event

    Global goals: Targets without accountability are not worth having

    Ahead of the launch of the sustainable development goals in New York, David Miliband and UN special adviser Amina J Mohammed speak at a Guardian and Unicef event

23 September 2015

  • Shopping mall

    Forget 'developing' poor countries, it's time to 'de-develop' rich countries

    Jason Hickel
    As the UN’s new sustainable development goals are launched in New York, there’s little to celebrate about the business-as-usual approach

21 September 2015

  • View of UN headquarters

    Your comprehensive guide to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals summit

    World leaders will pledge to tackle poverty, inequality and climate change at a historic event in New York. Here’s everything you need to know about it

7 September 2015

  • What's the best way to communicate campaigns to end global poverty to the general public?

    How to communicate the sustainable development goals to the public

    A survey showed that only 4% of the UK public heard about the millennium development goals. How can NGOs do a better job with the new SDGs?

24 August 2015

  • Jamaican immigrants 1954

    Cash-strapped governments may soon turn to Kickstarter to raise money

  • Tea plantations

    Meet the women fighting corruption and saving mothers' lives in India

13 August 2015

  • Ban Ki-moon

    Last-minute lack of transparency weakens sustainable development goals

    Bhumika Muchhala in New York
    The back room deals and pressure campaigns at the end of SDG negotiations call into question the legitimacy of the goals, says Bhumika Muchhala
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