Cities to step up at UN to push climate fight, sustainable development
Reuters As some world leaders question whether the world is facing a climate emergency, more than a dozen cities are stepping up to tackle global warming and sustainable development and will next week pledge to report their progress to the United Nations. Sixteen cities will commit to implementing global goals to end poverty, inequality and […]
Water pollution an “invisible threat” to global goals, economists warn
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists warned in a report on Tuesday, citing the largest-ever database on the world’s water quality. The World Bank report warned of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, […]
Save the world with a message from space, says UN advocate
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Want to grab some headlines for the United Nations’ global goals to cure world ills like poverty and inequality? Send them on a rocket into space. That is the plan devised by Eddie Ndopu, one of the newly appointed goal advocates helping implement the sweeping UN agenda by 2030. […]
Goals of ending poverty, inequality doomed without financial fix, UN says
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation New ways to ease national debts, boost wages and expand trade must be put into practice urgently or the United Nations’ goals to combat global poverty, inequality and other woes will fail, said a report issued late last week by top financial organisations. To succeed, the ambitious goals need money […]
Global leadership deficit leaves development goals in doldrums
Thomson Reuters Foundation The world has made far too little progress on the global goals governments agreed in 2015 to end poverty and hunger and tackle climate change, with a rising tide of nationalism acting as a wrecking ball, architects of the goals said on Thursday. Helen Clark, a former New Zealand Prime Minister who […]
Aid must be directed to the world’s poorest, as income gap increases – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Development aid is failing to improve the lives of the poorest 20 per cent of the world’s population, according to a report published on Thursday that predicted growing global inequality. Poverty rates were halved under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000 and replaced in 2015 with 17 […]
Global $US500 million data drive aims to end hunger by boosting harvests
Thomson Reuters Foundation A $US500 million data drive aims to improve the harvests of hundreds of millions of farmers worldwide as rising hunger levels threaten a global goal to end hunger by 2030, organisations involved in the initiative said on Tuesday. Developing countries and donors launched the ’50 X 2030′ scheme on the sidelines of […]
Religious freedom a prerequisite for sustainable development, expert says
World Watch Monitor As half a million people in 900 cities around the world campaign for “sustainable” development goals, Brian Grim, president of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation, argues that this cannot be achieved without religious freedom. “There is a strong and positive relationship between religious freedom and sustainable development as embodied in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted […]
Red flags raised as global pact to improve the world hits third year
Thomson Reuters Foundation Many countries will fail to end hunger, educate all children or offer better lives to stem migration by 2030 without major world efforts to achieve a set of global goals that marked their third anniversary on Tuesday, experts said. A report by aid group, the International Rescue Committee, and UK think tank […]
Gender equality index highlights big data gaps ahead of 2030 deadline
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 will miss the ambitious target if they do not accelerate efforts to plug “profound” data gaps, experts said ahead of launching a new gender index on Wednesday. Global partnership Equal Measures 2030, which is overseeing the index, said data had […]