I’m a Potato Grower! Strengthening Innovation to Empower Potato Growers in the Andes

This year’s Champions of the Earth and Young Champions of the Earth award ceremony will be held during the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly Week on 26 September, in New York.

The 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (to be launched September 11) is a UN comprehensive publication aiming to strengthen the science-policy interface, and to provide political guidance on the eradication of poverty and on sustainable development at the international level. As a strong scientific, evidence-based instrument authored by independent scientists, this report plays a significant role in the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda. The report aims to help support policymakers at high-level forums including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit (24-25 Sept).

The 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development calls for a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, aiming to "leave no one behind." Charity provides real social bonding and contributes to the creation of inclusive, more resilient societies. Charity can alleviate the effects of humanitarian crises, supplement public services in health care, education, housing and child protection. The International Day of Charity was established with the goal of sensitizing and mobilizing people, NGOs, and stakeholders all around the world to to help others through volunteer and philanthropic activities.

Electron beams can be used to treat and destroy industrial pollutants. This video shows how scientists in Slovakia want to use this technology to clean a contaminated river

This page outlines the various WIPO services that create the conditions for innovation, competitiveness and creativity to thrive, and it highlights examples of communities benefiting from these services.

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The 17 Sustainable Development Goals address the global challenges we face. Find out more and learn how they are all connected.

Reading and learning are essential to children’s growth and development; stories can fuel their imagination and raise awareness of new possibilities. The SDG Book Club aims to encourage them to learn about the Goals in a fun, engaging way, empowering them to make a difference.

To boost action and accelerate progress, world leaders meet at the UN General Assembly in New York for a week to discuss in dedicated summits the critical issues of global concern: climate change,

From the start in 1945, one of the main priorities of the United Nations was to “achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms