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The SDGs represent the first ever democratically forged agreement on universal development. They will guide the global development agenda until 2030. Contrary to the MDGs, which were written by the UN Secretariat in 2000 to shape development up to 2015, the SDGs came about not through the distillation of policy agreements from previous UN conferences but through governments negotiating. „„…

The publication investigates best practices in food sustainability across the world. It uses the three pillars—sustainable agriculture, nutritional challenges, and food loss and waste—of the Food Sustainability Index (FSI), developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit with the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, as a framework. Now in its third iteration, the FSI has been extended to 67…

The co-led UNDP and FAO Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme is a multi-year (2015-20), USD 17 million initiative funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The Programme supports 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to identify and integrate…

The “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development Vol 2” publication – available in the six official UN languages, plus Portuguese – features Southern good practices that are relevant to the implementation of all 17 SDGs. They illustrate the central tenets of effective South-South and triangular cooperation. The publication highlights how…

Three years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, global climate action is not yet sufficient to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C. In order to achieve the Paris targets, more ambitious climate action is needed. In the context of the newly released special report Global Warming of 1.5°C by the Intergovernmental Panel on…

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change was established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the health dimensions of the impacts of, and the response to, climate change. The Lancet Countdown tracks 41 indicators across five domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for…