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 ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

This paper introduces two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development, and characterizes the welfare criterion that they imply. The axioms require that neither the present nor the future ...

A new report from Springer Nature, in partnership with Overton, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of how academic ...

The success of the United Nations' global sustainability targets is often measured through economic growth—but what about how ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. With this year’s ...

Now that COVID-19 is compounding and exacerbating threats to the global economy, including higher public debt burdens, de-globalization and an expanding role of the state, the call for “sustainable ...

What often gets lost amid all the negative news about corruption and scandals is, for example, that Nov. 10 is Unesco’s World Science Day for Peace and Development, which was established in 2001. This ...

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was recently held on ...

A major international event, the Ministerial Transport Conference of Landlocked Developing Countries, starts today. The conference will explore the ways transport can be a driver for sustainable ...