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Sustainable development goals

News, comment and analysis on the global goals to end poverty, protect the planet and address inequalities
  • An aerial view of the Ribarroja dam on the river Ebro in Spain

    EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030

    Study finds ‘systematic progress’ achieved in 2010s with some states reaching targets a decade early
  • Farmers spray onion crops in Cartago province in Costa Rica

    ‘We used to give hope to the world’: is Costa Rica’s green halo fading?

  • David Cameron in Downing Street on 14 November 2023

    A return to the scene of a big political stink

  • Andrew Mitchell, speaking and gesticulating in conversation during the Conservative party’s annual conference, with a paper coffee cup at his side

    Definitions changing in UK’s bid to meet climate finance target

  • The UN secretary general, António Guterres, speaking at the summit, New York, 18 September 2023.

    Western leaders defend slow progress to end global inequality as UN summit starts

  • A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in Darfur, talks to her relative through a fence next to makeshift shelters in Chad

    Rifts over Ukraine disrupt UN summit on crises in the global south

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Explore

  • Sutrail-pic

    Climate, inequality, hunger
    Which global problems would you fix first?

  • In this photograph taken on the first Earth Day on 22 April , 1970, a Pace College student in a gas mask “smells” a magnolia blossom in City Hall Park in New York.

    Earth Day 2020 could mark the year we stop taking the planet for granted

    Richard Deverell
    The 50th annual call for environmental reform falls at a time when the health of people and nature has never been more urgent
  • Climate protesters in Lausanne

    Oceans, biodiversity, deforestation
    What's on the climate agenda for 2020?

    This year could be crucial in determining the response to the environmental crises

  • 'Where I live even 100 people cannot raise the money for one funeral'

    Anthony Kalulu in Namisita

  • 'Learning poverty'
    Almost all 10-year-olds in world's poorest countries struggle to read

  • 'A new roadmap'
    Global renewable energy initiative aims to bring a billion people in from the dark

Opinion

  • Larry Elliott

    At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty

    Larry Elliott
  • Houses in the Fort National district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    ‘A green transition that leaves no one behind’: world leaders release open letter

    Emmanuel Macron, Mia Mottley, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Olaf Scholz, Fumio Kishida, William Ruto, Macky Sall, Cyril Ramaphosa, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden
    Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and other international leaders address development needs
  • Gordon Brown

    Rich nations have promised to pay for the climate crisis – but will they?

    Gordon Brown
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