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Sustainable Development Goals – The Guardian

• Nature-led coronavirus recovery could create $10tn a year, says WEF July 15, 2020
  Report says 400m jobs could be created, and warns there will be ‘no jobs on a dead planet’Tackling the global nature crisis could create 400m jobs and $10tn (£8tn) in business value each year by 2030, according to a report published by the World Economic Forum.The report warns that when the world recovers from the […]
  Damian Carrington Environment editor
• Covid-19 has revealed a pre-existing pandemic of poverty that benefits the rich July 11, 2020
  The World Bank’s flawed and misunderstood poverty benchmark has led to a deceptively positive picture and dangerous complacency Philip Alston is the outgoing UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rightsPoverty is suddenly all over the front page. As coronavirus ravages the globe, its wholly disproportionate impact on poor people and marginalised communities is […]
  Philip Alston
• 'We squandered a decade': world losing fight against poverty, says UN academic July 7, 2020
  Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030 ‘completely off track’, says outgoing special rapporteur, with Covid-19 likely to impoverish millions moreInternational institutions are losing the fight against global poverty despite “self congratulatory” messages to the contrary, according to the UN’s outgoing special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.In his final report in the post, the […]
  Peter Beaumont
• Put sustainable development at heart of UK recovery, PM told June 9, 2020
  Business, charity and trade body leaders urge Johnson to tackle inequality and climate crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe bosses of Unilever, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland are among 150 business, charity and trade body leaders urging Boris Johnson to put UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) at the centre of the UK’s […]
  Kalyeena Makortoff
• Earth Day 2020 could mark the year we stop taking the planet for granted April 22, 2020
  The 50th annual call for environmental reform falls at a time when the health of people and nature has never been more urgentFifty years ago today, the first Earth Day was marked in the United States as a peaceful call for environmental reform, following a massive oil spill off the coast of California. Half a […]
  Richard Deverell