Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

1 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Sustainable Water Future Programme, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4 Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 5 Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, 6 In...

II. CAN THE CAIRO CONSENSUS CONTRIBUTE TO ACHIEVING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN AFRICA? Economic Commission for Africa United Nations

If Africa continues on the Cairo path at the current pace, can it achieve the Millennium Development Goals and if so, what progress has been made to address population aspects that are relevant for the achievement of these goals since Cairo? The answer to the first part of the question is almost certainly no unless a majority of African countries swiftly and significantly scale up action (Inter...

Did the right to health get across the line? Examining the United Nations resolution on the Sustainable Development Goals

Since the new global health and development goal, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, and its nine targets and four means of implementation were introduced to the world through a United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution in September 2015, right to health practitioners have queried whether this goal mirrors the content of the human right to health in international law. This study examin...

Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Compilation Document Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development www.uncsd2012.org/compilationdocument At its Second Preparatory Meeting in March 2011, the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) requested the Bureau to initiate an open, transparent and inclusive process, led by member States, ...