17 Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2020 (SDGs) were adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015 and came into force on 1st January 2016. Find out more Goals in line with Legrand CSR The UN'sSustainable DevelopmentGoals have a global scope. Legrand integrated them as part of itsCS...
Many citizens in the Global South need better access to material and energy resources to meet their basic needs and improve their lives – which would even entail GDP growth. However, measuring GDP growth alone tell us little about whether increased production and consumption has improved access to...
were first adopted in 2015. An emphasis on inclusive, participatory development that leaves no one behind is necessary to achieve these goals, which call for combined action on social, environmental, and economic concerns.
In 2015, the UN member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, designed to “take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world to a sustainable and resilient path” (UN, 2015). The agenda features 17 interconnected Sustainable Development Goals...
657 in Paris and in New York. This communication gap led key actors of the interna- tional education community to perceive the necessity of bridging, which resulted in various informal lobbying efforts to ensure that their agreements reflected the 2030 Agenda finally adopted in New York (...
The SDGs were adopted by the UN General Assembly. It has 193 member states, of which more than two thirds are developing countries. How Should the SDGs Be Achieved? At the level of international politics, all countries are obliged to develop their own action plan on SDGs and to determine ...
First quarter of 2020 in China faced 6.8% national economic output contraction which was its worst performance in last two decades (Liu, 2021). The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development estimated US$2 trillion shortfalls in global income (Srivastava, 2020), while the USA predicted ...
The need to make cities in Africa ‘more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, as encapsulated in the stand-alone urban goal 11 adopted as part of the 17 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, is undisputed as rapid urban growth rates are set to make the...
respect human rights and have adopted inclusive economic institutions (Acemoglu et al.2012). In governments where peace and social reconciliation cannot be achieved, justice is jeopardised, and eventually, conflict and fear dominate. In places with this order, where institutions and justice are not ...
In addition, donor-country agricultural trade and security policies often undercut support for agricultural development in the Global South. Furthermore, there is incoherence within donor policies on aid to agriculture, which tend to focus more on promoting commercialization and exports than on boosting...