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Planet has just 5% chance of reaching Paris climate goal, study says

News / 1st August 2017

There is only a 5% chance that the Earth will avoid warming by at least 2C come the end of the century, according to new research that paints a sobering picture of the international effort to stem dangerous climate change.

WHO estimates cost of reaching global health targets by 2030

Report / 21st July 2017

The SDG Health Price Tag, published in The Lancet Global Health, estimates the costs and benefits of progressively expanding health services in order to reach 16 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) health targets in 67 low- and middle-income countries that account for 75% of the world’s population.

Global spotlight report warns against risks of public-private partnerships

Report / 21st July 2017

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), usually portrayed as a useful tool towards sustainable development, actually “involve disproportionate risks and costs for people and the public purse”, claims a global coalition of civil society organizations and trade unions in the Spotlight Report 2017 launched earlier this week.

“We don't need 'trillions' to achieve the SDGs”

Blog / 17th July 2017

Civil Society activists critique the first week of deliberations at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, by the Global Policy Forum.

Poverty reduction as a goal sounds lovely, but this fairy tale vision of development and of human rights betrays a serious misunderstanding of poverty

Article / 17th July 2017

A collection of myth-busting insights about global inequality and the creation of poverty, with key questions to ponder in the latest human rights reader no. 417, by Claudio Schuftan.