Nuclear science and technology can help fight hunger and malnutrition and improve food security and food safety. Through the IAEA and its partnerships, including with the Food and Agriculture ...

Land degradation affects more than 60% of global soil resources, due mostly to intensive agriculture and deforestation. Degraded land influences the lives of more than 1 billion people who rely on ...

What Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In 2015 the United Nations created a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

"Achieving progress on Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - namely to reduce illicit arms flows - enables us to make progress on several other Goals, including gender equality, ...

The United Nations have issued 17 ambitious goals to try and build a better, fairer, and more sustainable future for the world. Sustainable Development Goal 4 aims to ensure all children have ...

The United Nations have issued 17 ambitious goals to try and build a better, fairer, and more sustainable future for the world. Sustainable Development Goal 8 aims to ensure everyone can be ...

Discussions at the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development will serve as preparation for the High-level Political Forum in July at the UN in New York. There too, Switzerland will work to ensure that ...

Building more livable cities is an essential step toward achieving the World Bank mission of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. Today, more than half of the world’s ...

Cities occupy just three per cent of the world’s surface but are responsible for three-quarters of global resource consumption and 75% of global emissions. More than half of the global population ...

Enabling 70% of communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to meet new rural standards Shifting rural labor structure ...