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UN-backed assessment urges incoming EU Commission to place the SDG agenda front and centre of its policies and investment strategies

As part of the Covering Climate Now initiative António Guterres issues a fresh call for more businesses and government's to join the fast-expanding climate movement

Ed King reflects on seven lessons from a bruising UN Climate Action Summit that ultimately failed to deliver the breakthrough that was both desperately hoped for and urgently needed

Uneven economic growth, rising debt levels and falling direct foreign investment threatening UN's Sustainable Development vision

The best soundbites from politicians, activists and business leaders in New York

Swedish teenage activist delivers angry and emotional speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit, as emissions pledges start to stack up

More than 130 major banks holding assets of $47tr pledge to align strategies with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals

Progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is 'in danger' of going backwards, warns the UN

The latest G7 summit promised a funding boost for global climate action, while providing evidence the coalition for tackling the climate crisis is under ever more intense pressure from the White House