Category: Global SDSN News

The International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) is SDSN's flagship annual gathering. This year's conference will be held on 18 & 19 September 2017 in New York City. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 May.

SDSN's fifth World Happiness Report 2017 was released on March 20th in celebration of International Day of Happiness. The report ranks 155 countries by their happiness levels and includes an analysis of happiness in the workplace and a deeper look at China and Africa.

SDSN Youth's new Global Solutions Report, the first of its kind, demonstrates the incredible innovation and creativity of young people in achieving the SDGs.

SDSN's global education initiative, SDSNedu, has transformed into the SDG Academy. Starting in September it is offering two new free online course - on human rights and sustainable cities - as well as much more.

Getting started with the SDGs in cities is a new report from global SDSN that outlines how cities and local governments can get started with implementing the SDGs and use them to guide on-the-ground planning and development.

SDSN Youth would like to hear from all young change-makers with solutions to achieve the SDGs. If you have a ground-breaking project or idea, share it with them and you could be featured around the world in the first #YouthSolutions Report.

A new SDSN report shows where countries stand with regards to the new UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SDSN Australia/Pacific and its members recently had the pleasure of hosting inspirational global urban sustainable development expert and SDSN Co-Chair Aromar Revi. If you missed out on seeing him, you can catch up here on all the videos, reports and media.

Global SDSN is inviting comments on a draft paper presenting a preliminary country-level Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Index that uses data available today to measure achievement across the 17 SDGs.

As part of an SDSN public consultation on how mining can contribute to the SDGs, SDSN Australia/Pacific member the University of Queensland is hosting an online and in-person consultation for the Australia/Asia/Pacific region on 17 February 2016.