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Sustainability

[New] Through associated national strategies and the implementation of the National Strategic Plan for Non-Communicable Disease 2016-2025, the Malaysian government aims to reduce the risk factors for NCDs to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
[New] The US health system targeted reduced waste and water use, with the goal of having 100% sustainable or local food and a 25% decrease in water usage by 2025.
[New] Sustainable Development Scenario outlines path to global net zero emissions by 2070, targets limiting global temperature rise to 1.65 °C and global CO2 emissions falling to less than 10bn tons by 2050.
[New] Development of an indigenous green hydrogen industry could generate £320bn for the UK economy and sustain up to 120,000 jobs by 2050.
[New] Last year Luxembourg launched a 10-step framework to implement the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals and drafted a climate law to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% until 2030.
[New] Europe's crop protection industry has adopted a set of ambitious commitments to support Europe's new Green Deal, including an investment of over €14 billion in new technologies and more sustainable products by 2030.
The IEA's Sustainable Development Scenario - a roadmap for meeting international climate and energy goals - brings the global energy system to net-zero emissions by 2070, incorporating aspects of behavioural change alongside a profound transformation in energy system technology and infrastructure.
BT's environmental sustainability drive for the past decade, has seen the telecoms giant hit a raft of sustainability goals early in its quest to become a net zero company by 2045.
Global food loss and waste is the focus of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12, which aims at halving wastage by 2030.
To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, approximately $7 trillion in private sector capital needs to be unlocked in developing countries.
More than $12 trillion can be released into the global economy if the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are realised, creating 380 million new jobs by 2030.
Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 on access to clean water and sanitation for all before 2030 is worryingly off-track, bringing to light the challenges facing the water sector worldwide.
The world is facing huge challenges in realising the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
A prolonged global economic slowdown will adversely impact the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
If health systems maintain their current policy, public health costs are expected to double by 2050, creating a burden that many countries will not be able to sustain.
Not having Taiwan's input in the UN is a loss to the global community, and will hamper Member States' efforts to build back better and implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in full and on time.
The renewed sustainable finance strategy to be adopted by the end of 2020 and the EU sustainable finance taxonomy will guide investments in hydrogen across key economic sectors by promoting activities and projects that will provide a substantial contribution to decarbonisation.
One target of UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
The network of 26 electric cooperatives is working together to pursue two voluntary sustainability goals: a 50% reduction in carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
With just 10 years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 7 by 2030, global efforts must be redoubled, particularly in Africa, or the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable, and modern energy.
CO2 captured from cement production and power generation jointly account for almost 80% of the reduced CCUS deployment by 2040 in the Reduced Innovation Case compared to the Sustainable Development Scenario.
Sustainable management of wild fisheries could lead to around $40 billion in annual savings by 2030 by reducing losses caused by overexploitation of wild fisheries.
Biodiversity conservation will remain a priority of EU external action and a pillar for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as we move towards defining the world's post-2020 global biodiversity ambitions.

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Last updated: 20 September 2020