Note: For each year, the percentage represents the average progress recorded towards all 17 SDGs. Credit:ASIA AND THE PACIFIC SDG PROGRESS REPORT Showcasing Transformative Actions(2024) With Asia Pacific seriously lagging on all 17 of the UN's sustainable development goals (SDGs) there are doubts...
As the climate crisis continues unabated, with global commitments lagging, national economies are being disrupted, affecting lives and livelihoods and undermining the other development goals. Clearly, SDG 13 needs priority as progress on all its targets are now derailed. The ESCAP report suggests integ...
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Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been the world’s most dynamic emerging area of economic development and trade in recent decades. Here, we reveal the significant and imbalanced environmental and socio-economic effects of the region’s growths during 1995–2015. Owing to the intra-regional trade of good...
Angela Buensuceso: How is Asia advancing on the 17 SDGs for 2030 and what impact is AI having on this progress? Ahmed El Saeed: The world is significantly offtrack in achieving the SDGs by 2030. A recent report showcases that globally only 17 percent of the SDG targets are on...
A sustainability practitioner for over two decades, Esther published the first sustainability report in Singapore in 2008 and issued the first green bond by a Singapore company in 2017. Conferred the 2018 SDG Pioneer for Green Infrastructure and A Low Carbon Economy by the UN Global Compact, and...
World economies’ progress in decoupling from CO2 emissions Article Open access 03 September 2024 Introduction Globalization has brought higher economic growth, industrialization, and well-being worldwide (Rao et al., 2023). But it has significant consequences for the environment in the form of clim...
These energy policies aim to restructure the energy sector to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Energy policy measures have significantly increased (as observed in Fig. 1) and now encompass various strategies such as developing standards and labels for...
1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite declarations of progress, business action and performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not strategic or bold enough to achieve them by 2030, as shared in a report released today by B Lab, a global network of organizatio...
Southeast Asia is undergoing an epidemiological transition with non-communicable illnesses becoming increasingly important, yet infectious diseases (tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis B, malaria) remain widely prevalent in some populations, while emerging and