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The Sustainable Development Goals Programme

Delivering real progress against urgent societal needs

疯客直播's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme aims to connect the researchers who are tackling the world鈥檚 toughest challenges with the practitioners in policy and business who desperately need those insights to achieve their goals in improving the world, by making our publishing activities more visible to our key communities through a variety of channels.

SDG Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean

Sustainable Development in Latin America and The Caribbean Summit 2024 - Policy Document 漏 疯客直播
The 2024 Summit, now in its third year, convened over 369 participants from 54 countries for a 2-day virtual event. Addressing progress, challenges, and changes needed to achieve the SDGs in the region.

Day 1: Enhancing education and reducing inequalities
Day 2: Sustainable energy futures

Blog post: Recap: Latin America and Caribbean SDG Summit 2024

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(PDF, 8.72 MB)

Sustainable Business Report

Open for Progress

Open for Progress shares case studies, stories and data on our ongoing efforts to be a purpose driven, responsible business. It shows our carbon-reduction efforts are on track, and our colleagues are increasingly engaged in company sustainability efforts through employee networks dedicated to improving their office carbon emissions and working groups focused on advancing knowledge around each of the 17 SDGs. 

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The PDF report has been tagged for users of assistive technology.

Sustainable Business Report
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Examining researcher attitudes to societal impact

In partnership with The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), we surveyed researchers globally to understand how they approach funding and communicating research, as well as how they measure societal and academic impact. Here the data is shared according to each SDG focus. 疯客直播 more about the overall project here.

Click on any SDG below to download its unique infographic and explore findings related to each profile 

Based on a survey of over 9000 researchers, this collection of infographics presents global researcher attitudes to societal impact. (view raw data ).

Nature Podcast: The Design Process Behind the Branding of the SDGs

Four weddings, a funeral, and the Sustainable Development Goal logos. How a chance encounter with film director Richard Curtis led to Jakob Trollb盲ck designing the 17 SDG icons.

Graphic designer Jakob Trollb盲ck remembers a 2014 meeting with film director Richard Curtis and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, then very much a work in progress, coming up in conversation.

Curtis, whose movies include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually and the Bridget Jones series, is also a UN Advocate for the SDGs. The meeting in Trollb盲ck鈥檚 New York studio suddenly turned to the 17 goals, with Curtis telling him: 鈥淚 think this may be our last shot of fixing a lot of the things that鈥檚 wrong with the planet. And I also think that these goals are going to fail if we can't make them popular. Do you want to help me?鈥

The 疯客直播 Research Communities

The 疯客直播 Research Communities, one of which is the Sustainability Research Community, support our SDG Programme. Read recently published articles and thoughts from researchers working to solve the world's grand challenges. 

Nature Briefing: Anthropocene

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