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Africa’s savannas provide high potential for farming development but this needs to be done in a smart manner to not worsen climate change.
Renewable energy programmes in South Africa need stronger policies to ensure that communities benefit.
For the sake of mitigating climate change, the African continent needs to make low carbon energy choices.
After two years of negotiations, the UN Sustainable Development goals will be adopted today. How can society and government actually end poverty and achieve other lofty goals?
Have the Sustainable Development Goals been co-opted by big business?
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals explained in charts.
Health has secured its place as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But without clear mechanisms to report, finance or engage other sectors, could more end up as less?
By championing economic growth, the Sustainable Development Goals are a barely disguised defence of the market fundamentalism that underpins business-as-usual. But in an age of planetary limits, sustained economic growth is not the solution to our social and environmental ills, but their cause.
Later this week, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York and adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals to guide global development.
A survey of OECD nations puts Australia 18th out of 34 on progress towards the world’s new sustainability goals. It scores well on quality of life, but lets itself down on - you guessed it - climate.
The ‘linear economy’ that drove 20th-century leaps in wealth is no longer sustainable, and our standard of living will not survive without a dramatic redesign.
What does your vision of a sustainable future look like? Some people imagine a world where technology solves the world’s most pressing environmental problems.
Despite improvements, there are still millions of people without adequate sanitation in Africa. Sustainable solutions that can be replicated elsewhere are being developed in South Africa.
Green infrastructure may not be the best thing for Africa despite being environmentally friendly.
The general response to carbon tax is not a positive one, but it may be something South Africa will need to accept.
As Obama travels to Africa, it’s a reminder of how people and communities need to play a bigger role in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
China’s formal climate target shows that the world’s largest greenhouse emitter is determined to green its economy on an unprecedented scale - and that it can bring the rest of the world along for the ride.
Rwanda requires the use of renewable energy to power up healthcare clinics in rural parts of the country.
Porto Novo in Benin, Rouen in France and Da Nang in Vietnam are taking steps to mitigate the harsh effects of climate change, which will hit them hard if they don’t.
Top contributors
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environmental Geography, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Assistant Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Thomas Wiedmann is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Sustainability Research, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute and School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
