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Through the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition, Esri and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) invited storytellers worldwide to solve global… Read more

22 September 2020, Mogadishu – The Federal Government of Somalia officially launched the US$2.7 million GCF-financed, UNDP-supported programme to ‘Strengthen Climate Change Adaptation Planning’… Read more

Political leaders participating in the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity in September 2020, representing 72 countries from all regions and the European Union, have committed to reversing… Read more

Bangkok, 14 September 2020 – A new ecolabel launched today by the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) will help shoppers reduce their environmental impact by identifying rice that has been… Read more

The children and youth consultation, on the climate crisis and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), was conducted from August 2019 to January 2020, across 12 countries, in Asia and the Pacific. The… Read more

What’s the recipe for cooking up outstanding policies? Policy practitioners the world over have strived to get the right people in the room and stay abreast of the latest research.
In Bhutan, an… Read more

Recent calls to change the SDGs and to lower ambition confuse two issues. The first is whether goals, such as universal access to healthcare, education, safe water, and clean energy, are achievable… Read more

By SDSN Secretariat
06 Aug, 2020
Esri and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) launch global competition to increase data-driven storytelling and the use of timely geospatial… Read more

The Circular and Biomimicry Built Environment Group has opened on the SDG Community of Practice! This Group is a collaborative space for Circular and Biomimicry Build Environment… Read more

Two funded projects by the European Commission (LANDMARC and TIPPING+) were officially started.
LANDMARC (Land-use based mitigation for resilient climate pathways) is a 4-… Read more