Mining for a carbon-neutral, inclusive, and sustainable future
Extractive and land resources
How can we ensure that a healthy extractives industry delivers on the SDGs?
Global
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Technologies like wind power and photovoltaic solar have advanced from expensive, subsidized, niche technology to wide-scale, commercially competitive solutions. We must learn from this rapid innovation to speed up the next generation of technologies
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Accelerating transformative partnerships through incubators
Economic development
We need to radically speed and shake things up to meet the 2030 deadline. “Incubators for transformative partnerships” could be a critical tool to fast-track action on the SDGs
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In current times, it’s easy to forget that over 70% of deaths worldwide are due to non-communicable diseases. How can we tackle their rise?
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The pandemic shows the critical importance of robust health systems, and that bigger budgets alone are no guarantee of ‘success’. Achieving good health and well-being for all by 2030, while restoring public finances, will need cost-effective spending on health
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We know how to restore land, and the benefits it brings to communities, climate, and biodiversity. Countries must act on land restoration now
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Black Lives Matter and the Global Goals
Human rights
The protests sparked by the death of George Floyd have shone a light on the human rights abuses still rife in even the most developed economies. In this Decade of Action, can we finally end racial inequality?
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Storing renewables
Energy
What kind of energy storage do we need to fight climate change with renewables?
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The Human Development Index – a better indicator for success?
Economic development
When faced with the complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals, we need a digestible, precise way of measuring progress
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Population and climate change
Climate
What is the relationship between population growth and human-made climate change? Must we necessarily limit the former to fix the latter?
