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Sustainable development goals

News, comment and analysis on the global goals to end poverty, protect the planet and address inequalities
  • Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words "Artificial Intelligence AI" in this illustration

    Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says

    Governments and private firms should contribute to help states unable to invest and benefit from advances
  • A teenage girl in a hijab seen from above as she writes on a sheet of paper

    Global cost of failing to invest in women and gender equality is $10tn a year – UN

  • A crowd of women march down a street holding placards and flags

    Gender equality stalling or going backwards for 1bn women and girls

  • Graphic of refugees, cycle couriers, construction workers and street cleaners

    Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

  • An aerial view of the Ribarroja dam on the river Ebro in Spain

    EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030

  • Farmers spray onion crops in Cartago province in Costa Rica

    ‘We used to give hope to the world’: is Costa Rica’s green halo fading?

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  • Sutrail-pic

    Climate, inequality, hunger
    Which global problems would you fix first?

  • In this photograph taken on the first Earth Day on 22 April , 1970, a Pace College student in a gas mask “smells” a magnolia blossom in City Hall Park in New York.

    Earth Day 2020 could mark the year we stop taking the planet for granted

    Richard Deverell
    The 50th annual call for environmental reform falls at a time when the health of people and nature has never been more urgent
  • Climate protesters in Lausanne

    Oceans, biodiversity, deforestation
    What's on the climate agenda for 2020?

    This year could be crucial in determining the response to the environmental crises

  • 'Where I live even 100 people cannot raise the money for one funeral'

    Anthony Kalulu in Namisita

  • 'Learning poverty'
    Almost all 10-year-olds in world's poorest countries struggle to read

  • 'A new roadmap'
    Global renewable energy initiative aims to bring a billion people in from the dark

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  • Three women in saris with goods balanced on their head waiting to cross a road as a truck and tuktuk speed past them

    If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
  • A white man in a suit bnext to Brazil's flag gestures while speaking at a conference

    Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty

    Kevin Watkins
    At its recent summit, Lula gave the G20 a chance to show its commitment to real change – and Britain can take the lead, says Kevin Watkins
  • Larry Elliott

    At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty

    Larry Elliott
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