The Sustainable Development Goals promise / Ranjula Bali Swain and Peter Dobers -- Multidimensional poverty indices and SDGs / Sabina Alkire -- Exploring Agenda 2030 through the 5P lens : energy beyond prosperity / Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis, and Raiana Schirmer Soares -- Challenges and the way forward in a difficult development landscape : achieving a sustainable future in Africa and its Sahel Region / Mohammad H. Sepahvand -- Sustainability as a defining moment for changing (m)eating behavior? : comparing Eastern and Western food choices, moral evaluations, and harmonization strategies in consumption and gaps in SDG 12 / Franzisca Weder, Stella Lemke, and Thomas Fenzl -- Energy poverty and education : evidence from Indian households / Manasi B and Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay -- Education, employment and gender equity : interactions and interlinkages between SDGs 4, 5 and 8 / M Niaz Asadullah, Kazi Mukitul Islam, Uma Kambhampati, and Reem Ashraf -- Measuring the impact of SDG 5 on empowerment in India / Pritha Dev, Ananya Acharya, and Astha Kushwaha -- Bridging resources, bridging goals : water, energy and food nexus for integrated SDG advancement / Xin Zhou, Bijon Kumar Mitra, and Vibhas Sukhwani -- Conserving water resources to attain Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh : a legal analysis / Zelina Sultana and Nasrin Akter -- Achieving sustainable markets / Ranjula Bali Swain and Örjan Sjöberg -- How born-sustainable and sustainability-driven companies contribute to the SDGs / Svenja Damberg, Morgane Fritz, and Ulla Saarii -- The transformation of the global financial system to sustainability / Sebastian Thomas and Angela Bruckner -- Frugal innovation and sustainable development at the bottom of the pyramid / Bibhuti Ranjan Bhattacharjya, and Hiranya K. Nath -- Border carbon adjustments, the developing countries and SDGs / Partha Sen -- Sustainable development in human-modified landscapes : using raptors to disperse flocks of pest birds that threaten resource use, human activities, and ecosystem function / Robert Wallis and Graeme Coles -- Sustainable Development Goals and their emphasis on managing plastic pollution / Vinish Kathuria and Nishith Jardosh -- Social innovation and local sustainable development : a literature review / Maria João Ruela, João Simão, and Filipe Almeida -- SDGs in the age of disinformation / Marijane Luistro Jonsson -- Free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) and the right to self-determination : a case study of indigenous peoples in the ASEAN member states / Muhamad Sayuti Hassan, Rohaida Nordin, Izawati Wook, and Nurul Hidayat Ab Rahman -- Taiwan's responses to the European carbon border adjustment mechanism and SDG 13 climate action : from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2015 to the Climate Change Responding Act of 2023 / Anton Ming-Zhi Gao -- A comparative analysis of disparities in sustainability, decision making, and environmental justice under Title VI and the Fourteenth Amendment / Kenadi E. Mitchell -- Sustainable development and comparative contract law : three case studies / Cristina Poncibò -- Processes and co-design methodologies for the territorialization of the SDGs for the communities in transition : an experimentation in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria / Giuseppe Mangano -- Social mediating the SDGs : the role of (mass) media and communication in realizing the SDGs / Denise Voci and Matthias Karmasin -- Carbon neutrality in China and the role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) : a legal and policy analysis / Haomiao Du -- Education for sustainability in the university-society relationship : possibilities and challenges in the contemporary Brazilian context / Jaqueline Silva Melo, Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio, Carolina Costa Resende, and Virgínia Simão Abuhid -- Achieving sustainable menstrual health for all : investigating menstrual cup take-up in India / Karan Babbar and Supriya Garikipati -- The role of payment for ecosystem services in achieving Sustainable Development Goals : lessons for biodiversity in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Clara My Lernborg and Mirey Atallah -- Human rights and SDGs / Saionara Reis, Stinne Skriver Jørgensen, Helene Møller Winterskov, and Joana Soler Torramilans.