Despite some progress on #SDG8, such as reduced unemployment and increased access to financial services, progress in critical areas such as youth employment, informality, labor rights, and child labor, has stagnated or even reversed. 🔎 #HLPF2025.

Since 1995, progress towards gender equality has been slow, fragile, & uneven across regions, with marginalized communities facing the greatest obstacles. Our new brief reviews the status of #SDG5 & its interlinkages with other Goals. 🔎 #GenderEquality.

Ten years into implementation and five years remaining until the 2030 deadline, none of the targets of SDG 3 have been achieved. Despite some areas showing gains, progress in others has stagnated or reversed. More 🔎 #SDG3.

According to the latest SDG progress report, financial flows to developing countries have increased, but so did debt servicing costs, hitting a record high in 2023. The annual investment gap for the SDGs is estimated at USD 4 trillion. 🔎 #SDG17.

Preparations for #HLPF2025 are intensifying as the UN, Member States and stakeholders aim accelerate the achievement of the SDGs in the five years that remain until the 2030 deadline. More 🔎 #Agenda2030 #SDGs.

Experts from @IISD_news, @ODI_Global, @UNDESA and @infoCEPEI unpacked expectations for #HLPF2025 at a recent webinar. Panelists focused on restoring trust in multilateralism & reviving the narrative on the SDGs. More ➡️ #UN80 #Agenda2030.

The #ocean continues to face threats from overfishing, pollution, and climate change, which drives ocean acidification and damages marine ecosystems. With progress on #SDG14 to be assessed at #HLPF2025, here's where things stand ➡️ #SDGs.

Almost 92% of the world’s population has basic access to electricity. But the current rate of progress is insufficient to achieve universal access by 2030. Read more from the 2025 #TrackingSDG7 report ➡️ @IEA | @IRENA | @WorldBank | @WHO | @UNStats.

At #FfD4, countries agreed on a new global roadmap that will help raise trillions of dollars annually to achieve sustainable development. Explaining the Compromiso de Sevilla ➡️ #ClimateFinance #SustainableFinance.

What should #sustdev look like beyond 2030?. Our colleagues at @TheBeyondLab are calling for inputs (from essays to videos to poems) and offering:. • fully funded trip to Geneva to share your work.• 6 mth residency @UNGeneva . Details ➡️

Empowering youth from online classrooms to global change. Read ➡️ #youth #SDGs #GlobalGoals.

The 2025 Internet Governance Forum brought together UN agencies and stakeholders to discuss some of humanity’s most pressing digital policy issues. Read ➡️ #internet #IGF2025 #responsibleAI.

There is a growing call among experts and policymakers for development models that emphasize well-being, inclusivity, sustainability, and human connection, rather than focusing solely on short-term economic growth as measured by #GDP. Read ➡️ #beyondGDP.

Did you miss our live webinar on What to Expect at the #HLPF2025?. We've shared the recording online—as well as many of the resources our excellent panelists shared. See you next week at the #HLPF!. View ➡️ #SDGs #VNR #GlobalGoals.

The Baku Dialogue on Water for Climate Action – a multi-stakeholder platform to foster “COP-to-COP” coherence on water-related climate action – met for its first interim meeting during the 2025 Bonn Climate Change Conference. Read ➡️ #water #climate.

SDG 14 has lost a champion . Rémi Parmentier was a tireless advocate for the Ocean for over 50 years. The greatest celebration of his life will be to carry on his work, a glimpse of which can be found in the guest articles he shared with us. ➡️

Papua New Guinea became the first #SIDS in the world—and only the second country in Asia and the Pacific after Indonesia—to receive a REDD+ results-based payment from @theGCF . Read ➡️ #forests #climate #PNG.

At the Bonn Climate Conference, “Presidency-led consultations on the development of the roadmap to USD 1.3 trillion in climate finance… gave little assurance that it will produce the actionable measures that many expect.”. Read ➡️ #SB62 #climate.

Chile has established the #BBNJ First Movers initiative - aimed at accelerating the first generation of high seas Marine Protected Areas. Read ➡️ #SDG14 #ocean #Chile #MPA.

Working Group begins preparations for first Global Framework on Chemicals International Conference. Read ➡️ #chemicals #waste #GFC.