A new international study calls for a fundamental reset in how humanity understands and pursues sustainable development. The ...

Rice paddies in the swamps and marshes maximize arable land, yielding food and economic security during the growing season. Innovative financial instruments can align financing with sustainability and ...

What Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In 2015 the United Nations created a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and ...

With only five years until the 2030 deadline for achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new international ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared 6 November of each year the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Since then, ...

One of the best definitions I've found of our current climate, economic and sustainability crisis is depicted in Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions. Thunberg's account ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This award will provide funding to early or mid-career investigators (Associate+) to spend 6-12 months in the laboratory of a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...