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UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon                                                         SUMMARY The goals aim, by 2030, is to eradicate extreme poverty, promote prosperity  and people's well-being, while protecting the environment.      Late last night, the United Nations concluded  its negotiations  on the post-2015 development agenda. Member States agreed  a framework for 17 universal sustainable development goals,  which will be adopted by Heads of State at a summit in  September.         According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the document “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” encompasses a universal, transformative and integrated agenda that heralds an historic turning point for our world. This agreement results ...

THE SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS TODAY IN NEW YORK.  . The first-ever U.S. Cities SDG Index . The Index ranks the 100 most populous U.S. cities, using Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), based on their performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Results show that all U.S. cities, even those at the top of the Index, have far to go to achieve the SDGs.    The U.S. Cities SDG Index uses 49 indicators from 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals – goals that were agreed upon by all countries at the United Nations in September 2015. The Index provides a more holistic and comprehensive assessment of sustainable development challenges faced by U.S. cities than available through other metrics. The top rankings from the U.S. Cities SDG Index are as follows:   The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro region in California wins the top spot, with an overall index score of 61.04. This means that the San Jose MSA is 61.04 percent of the wa...

Sustainability and Sustainable Development - What is Sustainability and what is Sustainable Development?     The definition of sustainability is not nearly as simple as it might seem, likewise with the definition of sustainable develope- ment, This is best illustrated by the fact that there are over 200 different definitions to what is sustainable development. However, the most common definition was defined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987, who documented the sustainable development definition as:   "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This implies that we need to look after our planet, our resources and our people to ensure that we can live in a sustainable manner and that we can hand down our planet to our children and our grandchildren to live in true sustainability. What is sustainability? The three pillars of sustainability But what is ...

Methods of Sustainable Development Goals in local communities and everywhere. Why are people not participating more enthusiastically in the widespread implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals?  How can we engage communities everywhere to make the United Nations’ Global Goals their  local goals?  How can individuals and collectives contribute to achieving ‘Agenda 2030’? Among many activists, grassroots organizations and even some international NGOs the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been branded as the result of a top-down UN process. Failure to successfully implement previous agendas has damaged belief in the achievability of such multi-lateral agreements. Something needs to change if the SDGs are to be more successful than ‘Agenda 21’ or the ‘Millennium Development Goals’. So far, too many on-the-ground actors are still hesitant to get behind the SDGs. The engagement with ‘ Agenda 2030 ’ is currently too slow to catalyze the magnitude of cha...

  Northeast Regional Center for Rural   Development Goals    The Center's goals were chosen from input by the Northeast Center's Board of Directors and the Directors of the four Regional Rural Development Centers. These key issue areas represent the concepts driving the mission, vision, and the strategy for rural development research and extension projects. Center funded projects must address at least one of the following five goals. Goal 1: Improving Economic Competitiveness, Diversity and Adaptability of Small and/or Rural Communities Major socio-economic shifts such as globalization are affecting the ability of small towns and rural places to maintain productive and sustainable economies. Rural economies are particularly taxed in adapting to these changes because of their small size, geographic isolation, low population density, lack of employment diversification, and traditional dependence on natural-resource based industries and routine manufacturing...