Healing people and planet in the wake of COVID-19
Pandemic recovery — Global
The pandemic makes the SDGs even more relevant, even more critical to ensure that we leave no one behind
SDG 1
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Better living through nutrition: how tackling malnutrition can transform Africa’s development
Health — Middle East and Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Despite the will, many developing countries lack the resources to deal with a problem that ravages at both the national and individual level. We need smarter, context-specific solutions on nutrition that can catalyze sustainable change
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Building a more equal world
Economic development — Global
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
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Tackling poverty and hunger within planetary boundaries
Food systems and sustainable agriculture — Asia (Central, Eastern and Southern), Global, Sub-Saharan Africa
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
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To achieve universal health coverage, we must spend smarter
Health — Global
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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How to reduce inequality
Social wellbeing
Despite policy commitments to reduce poverty, the gap between the world’s richest and poorest grows ever wider. How can we shift the way economies work to reward people for the work they do, not the wealth they own?
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Population and climate change
Climate — Global
What is the relationship between population growth and human-made climate change? Must we necessarily limit the former to fix the latter?
