The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for collective transformational changes of all key actors in society. Businesses and the private sector more broadly can provide an important contribution to achieving the SDGs, although their specific role is not sufficiently mainstreamed in the SDG agenda. SDG 12 (sustainable consumption...

Major international processes and frameworks, such as the SDGs, have recognised that strengthening women’s ownership and control over land is a way to empower women and also contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger. Despite the measures countries have taken to promote gender equality, women continue to be significantly disadvantaged,...

The World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the global water crisis, and a core focus of the observance is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. The theme of World Water Day 2021 is valuing water. The value...

In the first digital SDG progress report of its kind, FAO presents key data and trends for 18 of the 21 indicators under its custodianship. The evidence available to date for these targets, however, paints a grim picture. The world is not on track to meeting the overwhelming majority of...

The Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Forum for Sustainable Development 2021 will take place in March 2021. The Regional Forum will be held in a hybrid format that will provide for both in-person and virtual participation. dates: 15-18 March 2021 [tentative] location: Costa Ricaadditional: Event will include both in-person and virtual participationwww: http://www.regionalcommissions.org/