The United Nations Organization, after adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and establishing its seventeen goals, took a step further in its commitment to ocean conservation, declaring the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade), from 2021 to 2030. The...

The increasing requirement for action on climate change in developing countries has led to the inclusion of environmental aspects in microfinance objectives, in addition to social and financial performance, and hence to the appearance of green microfinance. To date, financing for modern energy...

Monitoring land degradation processes is crucial for progressing towards the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 15.3.1, "proportion of degraded land over total land area," was estimated for 339...

The working paper presents the main results and methodology used for the estimation of SDG indicator 6.6.1, "proportion of watersheds of Municipalities and Indigenous Territories of Bolivia that present that experience major changes in their surface water". The indicator was constructed based on...

Global emissions beyond 44 gigatonnes of carbondioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) in 2020 can potentially lead the world to an irreversible climate change. Employing a novel dynamical system modeling approach, we predict that in a business-asusual scenario, it will reach 61 GtCO2e by 2020. Testing...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with 169 specific targets could be a step forward in achieving efficient governance and policies for global sustainable development. An essential element will be the global indicator...

The FEEM project APPS – Assessment, Projections and Policy of Sustainable Development Goals – focuses on the quantitative assessment of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations at the end of September 2015. The project consists of two phases. The...

The New Urban Agenda annexed to the United Nations Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2016 requires new urban rules and regulations. It implements Sustainable Development Goal 11 aimed to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. From a global...

The authors explore the link between the systems approach to sustainability and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were formally adopted by the UN in 2015. The systems approach depicts sustainable development as the intersection of the goals attributed to three interlinked...

The FEEM project APPS - Assessment, Projections and Policy of Sustainable Development Goals lies in the stream of research related to the quantitative assessment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations at the end of September 2015. The project consists of...