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The SDG Knowledge Hub of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides the January update on global developments in climate finance. January 2017 Climate Finance Update: Businesses Line Up for Low-Carbon Transition During...

Sustainable Development News / 30 June 2016 ————————————————————————— Sustainable Development Policy Update July 2016 Monthly Forecast [by IISD RS] In July 2016, the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will hold its first...

The development finance institution aims to track global progress towards reducing inequality, but its first annual analysis comes flawed. The World Bank’s new report on inequality contains several inexplicable omissions. Poverty and Shared Prosperity...

World leaders, scientists, academics, and millions of others welcomed last year’s Paris Agreement on fighting climate change. The fact that 179 states have already signed the agreement is significant and there is now a concerted effort to obtain the...

Mr. President; Mr. Secretary General; fellow delegates; ladies and gentlemen: As I address this hall as President for the final time, let me recount the progress that we’ve made these last eight years. From the depths of the greatest financial crisis...