Sustainable development summit 2015

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Sustainability in the pipeline: securing water and sanitation for the future
As the global population increases, ensuring a supply of water and sanitation for all becomes ever-more important

Katherine Purvis

14, Sep, 2016 @10:49 AM

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It's not a wage gap, it's poverty – and the US needs a development agenda | Vikki Spruill
The US ploughs billions into fighting global poverty yet ignores similar issues in its own backyard. Embracing the sustainable development goals could change that

Vikki Spruill

16, Jul, 2016 @8:00 AM

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Smart infrastructure is the key to sustainable development
Moving towards low-carbon, climate-resilient transport and infrastructure is the best route to reducing poverty worldwide

Luis Alberto Moreno and Nicholas Stern

10, May, 2016 @6:08 AM

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Nine things we learned about the global goals
With hundreds of meetings during the sustainable development goals summit, what was actually said? We round up the key moments

Eliza Anyangwe and Bibi van der Zee

22, Oct, 2015 @2:10 PM

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Students Speak: what's the role of rich countries in the new global goals?
We want to hear your views – how can wealthy countries help to deliver the sustainable development goals? Will they take the agenda on board?

Carla Kweifio-Okai

19, Oct, 2015 @11:07 AM

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Uganda's Nobel prize boost, LRA survivors, and teenage girls speak out
Ugandan activist says Nobel nomination ‘already a win’; working with survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army; and marking the International Day of the Girl

Carla Kweifio-Okai

13, Oct, 2015 @1:11 PM

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Can Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay make the global goals famous? – podcast transcript
Kary Stewart reports from the UN summit in New York, where everyone from Ban Ki-moon to Beyoncé gathered to celebrate the adoption of sustainable development goals

09, Oct, 2015 @2:19 PM

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Partnership promises to tackle the crisis of bad data at the heart of development
To achieve the global goals, governments, UN agencies and others commit to bridge the information chasm that sees two-thirds of deaths unregistered

Liz Ford in New York and Mark Anderson in Dar es Salaam

01, Oct, 2015 @10:44 AM

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Leaders pledge $25bn to improve health of women, children and adolescents
Adolescents join women and children for first time in updated global plan that aims to reduce preventable deaths and transform outlooks for SDG generation

Liz Ford in New York

29, Sep, 2015 @6:00 AM

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Still far to go on gender equality blueprint set out in 1995, say activists
Twenty years after landmark conference in Beijing, more than 80 heads of state recommit to women’s empowerment, with progress vital to meet global goal

Liz Ford in New York

28, Sep, 2015 @1:20 PM

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From observer to friend and confidante: 10 years of tracing lives in constant flux | Sam Jones
Nick Danziger talks about his journey across four continents, discovering the reality of the development agenda and the people desperate for change

Sam Jones

27, Sep, 2015 @9:00 AM

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We fight poverty, disease and fear. We should be proud of how it helps the poorest
At the ambitious UN development summit this week, Britain will take a dynamic role, writes the prime minister

David Cameron

26, Sep, 2015 @9:00 PM

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