When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in September 2015, the outcome of an upcoming United Nations climate summit due to take place in Paris three months later was anything but ...

The success of the United Nations' global sustainability targets is often measured through economic growth—but what about how ...

Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared 6 November of each year the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Since then, ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. With this year’s ...

What often gets lost amid all the negative news about corruption and scandals is, for example, that Nov. 10 is Unesco’s World Science Day for Peace and Development, which was established in 2001. This ...

As the World Bank Group re-defines ways to make its work more impactful in the midst of global challenges, the focus is very much on driving development in a sustainable way. The key to that is ...