If generating the finance to achieve the SDGs seemed a tall order pre-pandemic, it looks much harder now. We must rapidly accelerate the take-up of financial instruments for sustainable development, and attract a wider range of investors, if we’re to meet the 2030 deadline
With the pandemic demonstrating that ‘no one is safe until everyone is safe’, the case for universal health coverage has never been clearer. How do we achieve it?
For the world’s growing urban populations, the ‘new normal’ must mean better and sustainable places to live and work, and ways to travel, for all – not just a privileged few
Economic development
Coronavirus threatens to push already damaging levels of inequality to new extremes. Post-pandemic, we must go beyond lifting people out of poverty and tackle the deeper structural causes of inequality at all levels
Data and monitoring
Six years after signing up to sustainable development and climate action, are countries’ plans fit for purpose to make long-term change?
Climate is just one of nine identified ‘planetary boundaries’, beyond which humanity’s future comes under threat. We must ensure the SDGs succeed within these critical limits
We must urgently find ways to turn burgeoning waste from cities into a resource
Food systems and sustainable agriculture
To balance the combined pressures of climate change and growing populations, we need to re-evaluate what we eat and where and how it’s grown
Data and monitoring
Improvements in technology have made information more accessible than ever. Then why has public debate in recent years been overrun with false narratives, and what can be done?
Financing
Development in low-income countries is too often thwarted by lack of access to finance. The Decade of Action demands that we connect promising projects in these nations with the capital lifeline they need and deserve
