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UN Body Pushes Accelerated Action Toward SDGs
July 26, 2017
The UN Economic and Social Council recently adopted a declaration, issued after 44 countries presented their "voluntary national reviews" on the status of their efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), calling for accelerated action to achieve the comprehensive social, economic, and environmental agenda by 2030.
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IMF Highlights Support for SDG Implementation
July 26, 2017
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a review explaining how its country-specific advice aligns with targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on issues ranging from economic inequality to women's rights to combating climate change.
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WHO Urges Trillions of Dollars in Spending on Health SDGs
July 26, 2017
The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) has published a report detailing the costs associated with reaching the health targets of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and arguing that it "is the responsibility of every country and national government to pursue" universal health coverage to achieve health-related SDGs.
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UNESCO, Brazil Target Children with SDG Education
July 26, 2017
As part of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Education for Sustainable Development campaign, UNESCO's office in Brazil recounts its initiatives with the Brazilian government to promote the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among school children.
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UNESCO, WHO Partner on SDG Initiative
July 26, 2017
Showing the single-minded prioritization within the UN system of the body's wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in April, the heads of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed an agreement to push cooperation between the global health and education sectors to achieve the SDGs.
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