With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at midpoint, our common future is in peril. For the first time in decades, development progress is reversing under the combined impacts of climate disasters, conflict, economic downtown and lingering COVID-19 effects. More people are poor. Inequalities have widened. Gender equality is going backwards. More people are being denied healthcare and education. The United Nations and its partners are working together to find solutions to these global challenges towards the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. 

Goal 1: Reversing Setbacks to Poverty Reduction Requires Nations to Work Together for a Resilient Recovery (worldbank.org)

Goal 1 & 13: Climate-Smart Agriculture Shows Promise in Improving Azerbaijan’s Cotton Productivity | IAEA

Goal 3: Collaborating locally is key for progress globally towards health-related SDGs (who.int)

Goal 3: WHO advises not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control in newly released guideline

Goal 6: WATER IS LIFE! by United Nations Development Programme – United Nations Development Programme | UNDP – Exposure

Goal 6: The value of water equals the value we attach to life | by UN Development Programme | Medium

Goal 6: A new Transboundary Water Cooperation Coalition to foster peace and sustainable development | UN-Water (unwater.org)

Goal 6: Sudan’s water crisis and the women fighting back (unep.org)

Goal 6 & 13: Every drop counts by UNDP Climate – Exposure

Goal 7: Bertrand Piccard: Profitable solutions exist | United Nations

Goal 7 & 9: Demonstration project on production of green hydrogen and ammonia underway in Baotou, China | UNIDO

Goal 9: Early warning systems for all by 2027 – ITU Hub

Goal 9 & 11: Contributing to SDGs through Japanese low-cost and sustainable environmental technologies | UN-Habitat (unhabitat.org)

Goal 11: People-Centered Smart Cities | UN-Habitat (unhabitat.org)

Goal 13: Farmers adapt to climate crisis on Burundi’s precarious hillsides (unep.org)

Goal 13: In Pictures: How Africa is using nature to adapt to climate change (unep.org)

Goal 14: New UN ‘roadmap’ shows how to drastically slash plastic pollution | UN News

Goal 17: Guterres calls for G20 to agree $500 billion annual stimulus for sustainable development | UN News