The UN’s working group suggests 169 targets for the Sustainable Development Goals. But we have to focus on fewer if the results are to be measurable.
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The original sustainable development goal for education treated all countries as equal; however, global targets have now been localised, providing a more realistic framework
Chemical elements from the perspective of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, countries committed to the UN’s sustainable development goals in an effort to end, for example, poverty, hunger and inequality
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/ 10 September 2004
The government says it will meet and even surpass the water and sanitation targets set at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg two years ago. Director General of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Chippy Olver told the Johannesburg +2 conference last week that by 2010 all South Africans will have access to adequate sanitation and safe drinking water.
Focusing on environmental, social and governance factors can only have a lasting positive effect if sustainable development goals are brought in
The field of philanthropy links directly to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
OneSight is fulfilling the UN goal to accelerate eye health to achieve Sustainable Development Goals
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President Cyril Ramaphosa stressed the need to pursue the United Nations’ sustainable development goals as well as climate action, peace and justice”
Water is central to human life and cuts across the sustainable development goals water