Sustainable development goals
Urgent action needed on crucial development targets, next PM warned
UK at risk of breaking global commitment to help deliver UN sustainable development goals on poverty, environment and inequalities, say NGOs
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
19, Jul, 2022 @12:41 PM
The big idea: should other species have their own money?
Are digital wallets for orangutans and a ‘Bank for Other Species’ harebrained fantasies, or genius ways to boost conservation funding?
Laura Spinney
14, Mar, 2022 @12:30 PM
We can afford to reverse poverty and climate breakdown. What we can’t afford is the alternative | Kevin Watkins
Our global finance system is failing to rise to the challenges we face. It’s time it was reimagined – and grounded in our shared humanity
Kevin Watkins
24, Jan, 2022 @8:15 AM
British Airways looks to recycled cooking oil fuel to cut jet emissions
Airline signs deal with UK refinery but questions remain over sustainable aviation fuel’s net zero credentials
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
02, Dec, 2021 @8:00 PM
More than 100 countries face spending cuts as Covid worsens debt crisis, report warns
As pandemic widens inequalities, many developing countries spend more on debt than health, study says
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
23, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Nearly all global farm subsidies harm people and planet – UN
Almost 90% of the $540bn of support a year harms people’s health, the climate and drives inequality
Damian Carrington Environment editor
14, Sep, 2021 @1:00 PM
New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
Study citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience
Damian Carrington Environment editor
28, Jul, 2021 @10:00 PM
Australia ranks last for climate action among UN member countries
Australia scores just 10 out of 100 on tackling fossil fuel emissions in new report on sustainable development goals
Lisa Cox
01, Jul, 2021 @9:14 AM
London Design Biennale 2021; Kingston Cycle Hub – reviews
The lofty words on sustainability from designers from around the world in London are given more concrete form further up the Thames
Rowan Moore
06, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM
The world faces a pandemic of human rights abuses in the wake of Covid-19 | António Guterres
The virus has been used as a pretext in many countries to crush dissent, criminalise freedoms and silence reporting, says UN secretary general António Guterres
António Guterres
22, Feb, 2021 @6:00 AM
Nightlife meets wildlife: the albums mixing birdsong and techno beats
A Bogotà nightclub has used the sounds of animals and birds in the Colombian capital to make a new kind of dance track
Jo Griffin
12, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM
Decades of progress on extreme poverty now in reverse due to Covid
Analysis: The pandemic, combined with the climate crisis and crippling debt burdens, has led to an ‘unprecedented increase’ in poverty, experts warn
Peter Beaumont
03, Feb, 2021 @7:15 AM
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