Abstract The Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides the
framework that all United Nations (UN) member states have pledged to fulfill. The …

Momentum is building towards the development of universally applicable sustainable
development goals. Owen Gaffney reports on the progress so far and explores the path …

Abstract Assessment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has largely focused
on formulating appropriate targets and indicators for each goal. Much less attention has …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call upon all countries to achieve 17
broad development goals by 2030. The SDGs are a central component of many national …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 integrate diverse issues such
as addressing hunger, gender equality and clean energy and set a common agenda for all …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate
Change call for deep transformations in every country that will require complementary …

Chapter 1 explains the background of the SDGs and the importance of a city-level approach
to the sustainable development agenda. This is a brief and general chapter that would be …

Two years ago, we envisioned an agile financing mechanism that could invest in catalytic
initiatives focused on the means of implementation for the SDGs—in areas such as …

How achievable are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across different policy
pathways? In this paper we model three alternative policy pathways for achieving SDG …

For the last 20 years, the international development debate has been dominated by two
trends that seem at first to be heading in a similar direction. However, under closer scrutiny …