The content, written and narrated by Fritjof Capra, PhD, a world-renowned physicist, systems theorist, educator and author, shows how our global problems are systemic problems — all interconnected and interdependent — and that the SDGs, therefore, must also be seen as systemically interconnected....
The UN Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development has released the fourth edition of the “Financing for Sustainable Development Report”, which provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance in 2019. The report puts forward a set of policy...
A group of researchers from the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) have developed a new environmental classification system to fully categorize the renewable and non-renewable natural resources that underpin our economies. This represents a critical first step in being...
The guide is a searchable online database illustrating the links between the Sustainable Development Goals and the human rights and labour laws. To help development professionals navigate this human rights framework, the Danish Institute for Human Rights has designed the Human Rights Guide to the...
A new report from the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) – the global network of over 140 science, engineering and medical academies – is designed to mobilise its members and the growing number of young academies around the world to engage with the SDGs more effectively. The report is the...
Our mission is to help local governments build more resilient, environmentally conscious, economically secure, and socially equitable communities. Our recommendations are structured around 32 subchapters that focus on different sustainable development challenges. On May 15 we will launch two fully...
The Global Green Economy Index™ (GGEI) measures the green economy performance of 130 countries and how experts assess that performance. The GGEI performance index uses quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure how well each country performs on four key dimensions: leadership & climate...
Explore the interactive map that shows how addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4, quality education, may result in a positive impact on many of the other goals. “Education plays a key role in building sustainable and resilient societies,” asserts Michael Ward, Senior Policy...
Following the success of the publication Education for SDGs: Learning Objectives, UNESCO has created a clearing house with pedagogical resources, ideas for classroom activities, multimedia resources and good practices for each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Education for Sustainable...
In a rapidly changing world, theories and perspectives on what it means to be a ‘good’ leader have evolved. Olena Ovchynnikova has identified key leadership skills required to tackle wicked problems posed by the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. For the first time in humanity’s...
Working on the SDGs, or just interested in how they came about this is the book to read it is part of the Vienna Cafe Trilogy which explains the development of sustainable development at the global level. The first book is Only One Earth with the father of sustainable development Maurice Strong...
Following the successful Eye on Earth Symposium at the end of October we are delighted to announce that video recordings of all 35 sessions are now available from https://eye-on-earth.net/session-recordings/ We are also pleased to share the recording of the Global Environmental Education...