Conference Primer: Sustainable Development Goals: 2022

Tracking the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
IISD News, 5 October 2022

After a week of discussions on Member States’ priorities, challenges and impacts, the high-level portion of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly concluded on Monday, with the presiding official observing that the sheer number of participants indicated the importance of the General Debate in international affairs.
UN News, 26 September 2022

The urgency around the climate crisis and other global challenges has led to a growing focus in recent years on restructuring finance to support the shift to sustainable economies and societies. This has fueled explosive growth in the demand for and supply of products such as green bonds and sustainability-themed equity funds. What’s more, investments that don’t directly target sustainability are increasingly adopting sustainability criteria.
Geneva Solutions, 26 September 2022

The Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the UN said on Monday that global security is in its worst state since the Second World War, owing to the high-handedness of some countries attempting to replace the international order centered on the UN system with one “governed by unilateral and exclusive Western values”.
UN News, 26 September 2022

On this week’s episode of The Lid Is On, we look at how the issue of the climate emergency has been raised during the opening session of the latest General Assembly session (UNGA77). This week, we've heard powerful speeches by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, star-studded events and gatherings at UN Headquarters, and hundreds of events taking place in New York, capitalizing on the global attention the city receives, when so many world leaders are in town.
UN News, 23 September 2022

The 77th UN General Assembly’s (UNGA 77) high-level week begins in New York today against the backdrop of rising tensions between the world’s major powers, the war in Ukraine, as well as a perfect storm of food, climate and energy crises.
Geneva Solutions, 22 September 2022

Tracking the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
IISD News, 21 September 2022

Tracking the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
IISD News, 19 September 2022

Tracking the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
IISD News, 19 September 2022

The UN Secretary-General and the President of the 77TH General Assembly joined world leaders and Goodwill Ambassadors on Monday in a global call to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and get back on track to building a better world that “leaves no one behind”.
UN News, 19 October 2022

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Facing a complex set of challenges that try humanity as never before, world leaders convene at the United Nations this week under the shadow of Europe’s first major war since World War II — a conflict that has unleashed a global food crisis and divided major powers in a way not seen since the Cold War.
AP News, 18 September 2022

IISD News, 14 September 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine has dominated UN diplomacy in 2022 to date. It will continue to be high on the agenda, but other matters require urgent attention, too.
Crisis Group, 14 September 2022

The 77th session of the UN General Assembly opened on Tuesday with its new president urging world leaders to respond to humanity’s most pressing challenges, including the war in Ukraine, by working together and building bridges across what are “deep divides”.
UN News, 13 September 2022

Top business executives joined the UN chief on Wednesday to present transformative solutions for bridging the estimated $4.3 trillion-dollar financing gap for countries the reach the ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - the world’s agreed roadmap for a more peaceful and inclusive world.
UN News, 12 September 2022

From climate change to worsening inequalities and COVID-19 fallouts, top UN officials told a major forum in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday that greater cooperation among developing countries, known as the global South, was needed to overcome a multitude of challenges.
UN News, 12 September 2022

Human development has declined globally for the last two years, falling back to levels last seen in 2016 and reversing progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to the U.N. Development Programme.
Devex, 8 September 2022

The Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) published a flipping book showcasing the faces and stories behind the global and regional aggregates representing progress on the SDGs.
IISD, 31 August 2022

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) held a consultation on ‘Our Common Agenda’ during which UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefed Member States on progress towards implementing the proposals contained in the report. Describing the proposed Summit of the Future and the second SDG Summit in 2023 as “twin summits,” Guterres said the two high-level events share the common objective of “creat[ing] conditions for a sustainable, equitable and inclusive future.”
IISD, 10 August 2022

Nearly a year ago, the UN chief released his report, Our Common Agenda (OCA), a blueprint for global cooperation moving forward, and reinvigorated multilateralism. On Thursday, he updated the General Assembly on progress made so far, saying the need for the report’s proposals “has only increased.”
UN News, 4 August 2022

Lachezara Stoeva, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the UN, was elected President of ECOSOC for the 2023 session, succeeding Collen Vixen Kelapile, Permanent Representative of Botswana.
Addressing the Council on 25 July 2022, Stoeva outlined her seven priorities for the 2023 session.
She said she will aim “to ensure that the policy debates and outcomes of the HLPF and ECOSOC make a positive difference on the lives of people, including the poorest and most vulnerable, at country level”.
IISD, 3 August 2022

UN DESA, 11 July 2022

UN News, 5 July 2022

- The President-elect’s vision for his office is to “pursue an integrated agenda of peace, prosperity and sustainability” by being “an agent of multilateralism, multiculturalism and multilingualism”.
- Congratulating Kőrösi on his election, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said UNGA 77 can be “a time to recalibrate multilateralism and strengthen the foundations of global cooperation”.
IISD,16 June 2022

UNEA resolution 5/14 titled, ‘End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument,’ mandates the process to develop an international treaty to address plastic pollution.
IISD, 8 June 2022

For each Goal under review at the July HLPF, the NGO Major Group’s position paper provides recommendations on how governments should implement it, identifies structural obstacles that hinder its implementation, and outlines the role civil society can play in achieving it.
IISD, 8 June 2022

The Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), in collaboration with UN partners, convened a series of Expert Group Meetings (EGMs) on 2022 HLPF Thematic Review.
IISD, 8 June 2022

The world will experience 1.5 medium to large-scale disasters every day through the end of the decade, unless countries ramp up action on prevention and risk reduction, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
25 May 2022

IISD News, 25 May 2022

IISD News, 25 May 2022

‘We know what happens when we don’t prepare better, we don’t prevent better, and when disaster strikes.’
The New Humanitarian, 23 May 2022

UN News, 13 May 2022

UN News, 13 May 2022

10 May 2022

IISD, 4 May 2022

IISD, 4 May 2022

UN News, 4 May 2022

An analysis by IISD, 28 April 2022

Passeblue.com, 26 April 2022

UNDRR, 26 April 2022

IISD, 21 April 2022

IISD, 21 April 2022

UN News, 19 April 2022

Policy brief by IISD, 14 April 2022

IISD, 14 April 2022

UN News, 12 April 2022

IISD, 5 January 2022

UN News, 26 April 2022

It is a United Nations initiative that provides a platform for the global football community to engage with and advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is an opportunity to build on football’s powerful and influential reach and to work together to become agents of change by aligning messaging, strategies and operations with the aspirations of the SDGs.