SDGs
Coordinate efforts to scale up Southern development successes: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all to coordinate their efforts to scale up Southern development successes, share them widely through enhanced cooperation, build a strong recovery and achieve the SDGs by 2030.
Make investment environment more attractive: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to work for making the investment climate in the country more attractive overcoming the problems caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
ECOSOC chief focuses on pandemic, SDGs, climate action
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) President Munir Akram said now is the time to implement policies and commitments to recover from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
COVID-19 shatters Bangladesh's dream of eradicating poverty
Experts say the COVID-19 pandemic has dashed hopes of achieving the UN’s 2030 agenda to eradicate poverty through Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
COVID-19 has hit Bangladesh’s economy hard and threatens to derail the country’s impressive achievements in poverty reduction.
Huawei aims to build sustainable future
Huawei has stated its plan of creating a sustainable future by releasing its Sustainability Report 2019.
Private business sector still away from reaching SDGs: UN report
A recent United Nations report on the private business sector shows that the majority of companies are not doing enough to help bring about the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The progress on bringing about a sustainable future for people and the planet is patchy, the report said, which was released by the UN Global Compact.
Remi Erikson, who led the team that drafted the report, said “The scale and pace of change, to date, to deliver SDGs has not been big enough or fast enough.”
The findings also show that just 39 percent of companies surveyed believe they have targets that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the SDGs by 2030, reports UN News.
Erikson stated that “Only 46 percent of businesses surveyed are embedding the SDGs in their core business.”
“Less than a third of businesses believe their industry is moving fast enough to deliver the SDGs by 2030,” he added.
Erikson went on revealing the findings that “Incremental change by individual companies will not deliver the business contribution needed to reach the SDGs.”
“Companies and the systems they are part of are moving broadly in the same direction, but not in a concerted effort,” said Erikson adding that achieving the needed change requires a ramping up of ambition among all companies.
Only policy making not enough
Partnership crucial to achieve SDGs, national goals: FM
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday sought a stronger private sector role in helping Bangladesh reach its goals, including implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030 saying partnership is crucial.
Challenges to economy held up at media camp on SDGs
Voicing concern over the high rate of growth in GDP failing to meet expectations in terms of job creation, experts at a workshop Thursday said the country's economy may soon have to face the adverse effects of the uneven form of growth it is experiencing.
Innovative financing must to achieve SDGs in time: Dr Shamsul Alam
Member (Senior Secretary) of the General Economics Division of Planning Commission Dr Shamsul Alam on Monday said the innovative financing is required in Bangladesh to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
ADB unveils venture platform to invest in impact technology startups
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday it has approved the establishment of ADB Ventures, a new venture platform that will support and invest in startups offering impact technology solutions that contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific.