The 2030 Agenda and accompanying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are vital in guiding national and global policy. However, many of the SDG indicators used to measure progress toward those goals suffer from long publication lags. Nowcasting has the potential to address this problem and...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to achieve sustainable development for the service of all humanity. These 17 goals are adopted in 2015 by the member states to support many aspects of human development while addressing environmental issues. The SDGs rely on the partnerships of all...

The UN Agenda 2030 actualized the necessity to employ the innovative mechanisms of development financing. Cooperation between governments and business providing the implementation of joint programmes in the recipient countries turns out to be one of these mechanisms. In this article, the author...

Increased effort to cope with the rapidly emerging impacts of climate change is urgently needed. Whether adaptation bears the risk of inducing a negative feedback loop through its energy requirements has not been investigated. Here we examine the Nationally Determined Contributions submitted by...

The 2030 UN Agenda provides a list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Typically, SDGs are viewed as non-hierarchical, if not standalone, objectives. Our main aim is to try to represent the structure of multilayered relationships among the SDGs, where possible assigning influence links...

This paper aims to study the international experience (in the aspect and taking into account the specifics of regions of the world) integrating the SDGs into corporate strategies and to identify the following: (1) supported SDGs (UN standards); (2) implemented measures of corporate social...

The Member States of the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. The goal of this essay is to provide an overview of the steps the European Union has made so far in order to adhere to SDG 12 of sustainable and responsible consumption and production. These...

Raising living standards continues to be the main challenge facing Guatemala, as a matter of economic success and social cohesion. This paper discusses the spending, financing, and delivery capacity aspects of a viable development strategy for Guatemala couched within the United Nations...

This study uses advanced natural language processing methods to identify companies that are aligned with the UN SDGs based on the text in their sustainability disclosures. Using CSR reports of Russel 1000 companies between 2010-2019 we apply a logistic classifier, support vector machines (SVM)...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by United Nations General Assembly in September, 2015 seek to ensure that all nations and all people are included in achieving SDGs and no-one is left behind. Along with environmental issues...