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.
In 50 years, Kenya has experienced an overall decline in under 5 mortality.
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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.
Australia’s sprawling cities present many challenges to sustainability, but planning innovations can help achieve at least half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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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.
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.
Australia is a long way from achieving responsible consumption and production – SDG 12 – and China exposed the reliance on shifting the problem elsewhere when it stopped accepting waste for recycling.
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Australia has yet to properly acknowledge that the Sustainable Development Goals aren't just an issue for other countries. The problems that demand our attention are much closer to home.
Kofi Annan in 2009.
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A new report reveals Australia is lagging behind most wealthy nations in working towards the globally agreed goals. It's performing particularly badly on climate and environmental indicators.
A farmer plows a dry and dusty cotton field near Phoenix, Ariz., while a drought affects the Southwest.
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Australia's business-as-usual plan will not be enough to achieve our 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Planning and design for healthy, liveable communities in the Australian tropics can involve quite different considerations from those that apply down south.
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There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all plan for sustainable, healthy urban living. Urban diaries help identify what works – and doesn't work – for tropical cities like Cairns or Townsville.
France has committed to halving the level of food waste by 2025.
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The case of the start-up Phenix shows that the fight to reduce food waste requires a regulatory context that encourages innovation at the level of the business ecosystem.
It's important yet complicated to align national development plans with the SDGs. But it isn't impossible.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, and Nigerian Health Minister Isaac Folorunso Adewole, at the End TB Summit in New Delhi, India, March 13, 2018.
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On World TB Day 2018, eradicating TB finally looks like a goal that could be met — if political leaders can step up with cash and actions to match their political declarations.
A Turkana woman buys food from a refugee woman in Kakuma camp in north western Kenya.
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