This new blog series covers all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with insights from UNU researchers around the world. Please check unu.edu for the full series ahead of the Sustainable Development Summit in New York on 25-27 September 2015. 

SDG Series:

Goal 1: End Poverty

Goal 2: No Hunger

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Negotiations are underway to set objectives and targets and establish a framework for implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. SDGs differ from their precursors, the Millennium Development Goals, in that they are meant to apply universally to all countries. We define universality as the ‘appropriateness’ of goals, targets, and indicators for global adoption.

The Sustainable Consumption and Production Learning Cases project draws inspiration from UNU-IAS’ annual offerings, since 2008, of the ASEAN+3 Leadership Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Consumption (SCP) for government and private sector decision makers.

The objective product of the project was not only to provide resource materials for the ASEAN+3 Leadership Programme on SCP but also for other capacity building initiatives of UNU-IAS and partners on SPC and related fields including those offered by the RCE and ProSPER.Net communities.

About 135 Regional Centers of Expertise (RCEs) have been accredited by the United Nations University – Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) throughout various regions of the world within the UN declared Decade of  Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) from 2005-2015. 

LAST week, the University of the Philippines (UP) hosted the 8th Asia-Pacific RCE Conference. Before the day I learned I was going to be part of the technical working group for the conference, I didn't know what RCE was. I asked the assistant who handed the memo what RCE was, and she could only manage a smile for an answer. Poor me, I got a smaller world.

The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to find the most promising, innovative and locally-led start-up social and environmental enterprises in countries with developing and emerging economies. The independent SEED International Jury of experts selects enterprises which have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability while contributing to a greener economy.

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