SDG Index & Dashboards Indicator Profiles

The SDG Index creates for the first time a measure of the SDG starting point for 2015 at the country level. It will help every country identify priorities for early action, underst...

SDG Index & Dashboards Global Report

This report introduces the unofficial SDG Index and Dashboards and summarizes the preliminary results. The report creates for the first time a measure of the SDG starting...

1st SDG progress report

The UN Statistics Division just released the first official SDG progress report. It provides a quick overview of aggregate progress on all of the goals and features regional g...

Getting Started with the SDGs in Cities

Getting Started with the SDGs in Cities outlines how cities can get started with implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in cities and human settlements. Effective an...

2017 WEF-GULF ISCN Report: Educating for Sustainability

The report “Educating for Sustainability” from the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) includes a shared foreword with the SDSN. The report was launched at ...

Sustainability, Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2017) Released

Presenting the 2017 Youth Solutions Report!

SDSN Youth announces the launch of the Youth Solutions Report, a first step in the mission to demonstrate the incredible innovation and creativity of young people who are leading i...

New ICSU report "GUIDE TO SDG INTERACTIONS: FROM SCIENCE TO IMPLEMENTATION" just released!

The report examines the interactions between the various goals and targets, determining to what extent they reinforce or conflict with each other. It provides a blueprint to help c...

SDSN Northern Europe: Oceans Solutions Report

Released at the Solution Initiative Forum (SIF) Oceans in Gothenburg, Sweden, this compilation of innovative SDG 14 solutions focuses on four key areas: litter, energy, ...

Politics in the Way of Progress by J. Bradford DeLong, on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

INTERESTING READING on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals “Politics in the Way of Progress” by J. Bradford DeLong - Project Syndicate 3.10.2017. On the UN's...

Sustainable Development Report 2019

Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding the Billions and Trillions

This paper proposes an analytical framework for SDG needs assessments that translates the 17 SDGs into eight investment areas and integrates climate change adaptation and mitigatio...

ICT & SDGs

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University have released a new report highlighting ICT’s role in accelerating achievement of the United Nations Su...

Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for Sustainable Development Goals

Launching a data revolution for the SDGs This report is the result of over 18 months of consultative work led by the SDSN with the contributions of nearly 500 organizations and th...

Financing for Sustainable Development: Implementing the SDGs through Effective Investment Strategies and Partnerships

This working paper provides a roadmap for the Financing for Sustainable Development discussions in the lead-up to the Addis Conference. Focusing on a broad array of issues – ...

Framing Sustainable Development Goals, Targets, and Indicators

This brief note summarizes suggestions for framing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as their Targets and Indicators. These principles are derived from two reports prepa...

Mobilizing the household data required to progress toward the SDGs

This SDSN Briefing Paper is prepared by the Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and Emma Samman, Research Fellow, Overseas Dev...

Science and Technology for SDGs: Decarbonizing the energy system