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Science academies have a crucial role to play in developing ways for scientists to engage more effectively.
African countries need to take into account the effects environmental changes, like climate change, have on their ability to deal with food security, poverty reduction and lowering mortality rates.
The IMF has increasingly turned its focus to growing inequality worldwide. Ironically, research shows that policy reforms it mandated exacerbated income inequalities.
What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
Immigration is neither the problem nor solution in many areas where Australia is off-track, from government debt to environmental action.
The data suggest that boys experience as much disadvantage as girls.
Boys are more likely to engage in risky behaviours than girls
When we plan a better future for an increasingly urbanised world, we need to be aware that more than half of all children now live in the tropics. That calls for solutions with a tropical character.
Tuberculosis kills more people globally than any other infectious disease. A human-rights approach and investment in quality care are essential to ending the global epidemic.
Building a fiscally capable state won’t bring benefits in the short term but can build taxpayers confidence.
The African Peer Review Mechanism got off to a good start, but enthusiasm soon waned.
Across Africa less than 10% of the population is connected to a sewer system. But the waste could be used elsewhere.
Countries with effective governments have reduced income poverty by almost twice the speed.
Can tourism ever be sustainable? Only if operators and consumers start looking beyond the idyllic postcard images and take undesirable consequences of tourism into account.
Only half of Kenya’s 47 counties achieved the 2000 goal on reducing child mortality
As many of the world’s most popular tourism destinations are overrun by visitors, operators could pay attention to the UN’s sustainable development goals.
Planning innovations around the world offer inspiration, but ultimately the innovations needed to make Australia’s sprawling cities more sustainable must be shaped by local conditions.
African countries are sure to face more flooding in the future, they need to adapt or risk loosing the progress that’s already been made
For our country to have a sustainable future, we need to ensure all Australians have access to quality education and healthcare and take steps to reduce inequality.
Top contributors
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria and Co-ordinator of the South African SDG Hub, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, Monash University
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, The University of Edinburgh
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Monash University
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Thomas Wiedmann is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Sustainability Research, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor and Executive Dean: Engineering, University of Canterbury
