Billions of people around the world lack adequate access to one of the essential elements of life: clean water. Although governments and aid groups have helped many living in water-stressed regions ...

Since the Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, established and quantified the contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) to planetary warming in 1896, CO2 emissions, created primarily from burning fossil ...

Sustainable development is how we must live today if we want a better tomorrow, by meeting present needs without compromising the chances of future generations to meet their needs. The survival of our ...

Encouraging development has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Pointing to the United Nations Charter, which expresses the determination to “promote social progress and better ...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015, recognizes not only that peace and security are prerequisites for achieving ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Cape Town provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Development finance is the invisible glue ...

The drive towards sustainability is ultimately for the wellbeing of all, and the goal of reducing one’s carbon footprint for ...