In 2015, world leaders made a commitment to end all forms of violence against children by 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This moment presents an historic opportunity to ...

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom, We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, ...

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human ...

In September 2015, the Member States of the United Nations committed themselves to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (herein the 2030 Agenda) containing 17 Goals and 169 Targets, most of ...

Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication was one of the two themes for the United ...

The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was established by the UN General Assembly in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up of United Nations Conference on Environment and ...

Two decades after the Earth Summit, the importance of effectively engaging these nine sectors of society was reaffirmed by the Rio+20 Conference. Its outcome document "The Future We Want" highlights ...

The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative aims to get institutions of higher education to commit to teach sustainable development concepts, encourage research on sustainable development issues, ...

The outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, inter alia, set out a mandate to establish an open working group to develop a set of ...

1. An assessment of the situation regarding the principle of “ensuring that no one is left behind” at the global level: The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer adopted in 1985 and ...

At the UNCSD's first Preparatory Committee in May 2010, several delegations requested that the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Environment Programme, the ...

The Sustainable Real Estate partnership aims to achieve a boost in energy efficiency and reduction of CO2 emissions in 1000 properties throughout Switzerland via a five-year program to systematically ...