Sustainable Development Goals / SDGs

100 seeds for a sustainable future: Part 8

May 25, 2017

Students discuss the business of crisis management, innovate clean water solutions and find the link between tax fraud and poverty.

With the SDGs, everything is connected

May 17, 2017

By Alan AtKisson

One set of challenges, indivisible, with sustainability and resilience for all.

The Sustainable Development Goals: The Corporate Imperative

Why businesses are striving for multiple U.N. Global Goals

May 3, 2017

WithPeter Bakker

In 2000, the United Nations passed the Millenium Development Goals, eight goals to improve the lives of people in developing nations. In 2014, the U.N. expanded them into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), interconnected global goals to eliminate the world's most pressing problems from hunger to gender equality.

"The SDGs are the greatest gift the U.N. has given to the world," said Peter Bakker, president of the World Business Council and U.N. World Food Program ambassador against hunger.

Five signs that Nigeria is leading sub-Saharan Africa in climate action

May 2, 2017

By Adiya Atuluku

The continent's most populated nation is motivated to think differently in light of a significant economic slowdown.

Here’s what we need to accelerate progress on global energy goals

April 20, 2017

By Peyton Fleming

The SDGs still face a big challenge: providing universal access to modern energy services and doubling energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Is this the start of an SDG reporting boom?

March 27, 2017

By Lauren Hepler

More companies are trying to measure progress toward the sweeping United Nations global development goals.

To fix global poverty, look beyond income

March 23, 2017

By Riddhima Yadav

Getting from the "what" to the "how" on lifting 1 billion people out of energy poverty means going to the roots of a complex issue.

Companies cut food waste to stop wasting profits

March 16, 2017

By JoAnne Berkenkamp

Businesses that stop wasting food generate a 14-fold return on investment.

The SDGs: How can we sustain our optimism?

March 2, 2017

By Alan AtKisson

The email came from an 82-year-old activist in Vermont. She was hoping for answers to questions she was hearing from others, about the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. She wanted to write an article — not for The New York Times or even for a local newspaper, but for her friends, neighbors and the various experts she meets and talks to.

She wanted to be able to explain some basic things about the SDGs, to people who often seem skeptical.

3 drivers for sustainable business in 2017: WBCSD on pushing forward

February 14, 2017

By Juliet Taylor

The new global reality offers new opportunities, even if it seems like we've taken two steps forward in recent years only to step back now.