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July 2025
The Sustainable Development Goals have improved millions of lives over the past decade, but progress remains insufficient, UN report finds
A decade after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations released today the 10th edition of its annual progress report, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025. The report provides a stark assessment and a strong call for action.
Press release | Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development delivers renewed hope and action for sustainable development
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development concluded today in Sevilla, Spain, with 130 initiatives turning the Sevilla Commitment or Compromiso de Sevilla into action through concrete steps to boost investment in sustainable development, address the debt crisis afflicting many of the world’s poorest countries, and give developing countries a stronger voice in the international financing architecture.
June 2025
Press Release | International Conference on Financing for Development opens with a renewed global framework to tackle sustainable development challenges
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) opened today in Sevilla with the adoption of the Sevilla Commitment or Compromiso de Sevilla, an intergovernmentally negotiated outcome that lays the foundation for a renewed global framework for financing development. Commitments include steps to close the $4 trillion financing gap for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), address the debt crises, and reform the rules of the system to make the international financial system fairer and more transparent, putting people’s needs at the center, and injecting new hope for people around the world.
Press Release | United Nations Secretary-General launches report to break “the cycle of debt distress”, ahead of Major UN Financing Conference
The United Nations Secretary-General today presented new recommendations–Confronting the Debt Crisis: 11Actions to Unlock Sustainable Financing–that aim to break the cycle of debt distress and lay the foundation for unlocking long-term, affordable financing that supports sustainable development.
SDG Media Zone at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference — Sessions Recap
During the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France, policy makers, innovators, advocates, and community leaders came together to discuss transformation and solutions needed to accelerate action on the Sustainable Development Goals — especially Goal 14: Life Below Water.
SDG Media Zone Programme – UNOC 2025
https://www.un.org/en/sdgmediazone/oceans/programme
May 2025
Press Release | Global economic outlook worsens amid trade conflict and policy uncertainty, United Nations Report says
New York, 15 May 2025 – Global economic outlook worsens amid trade conflict and policy uncertainty, United Nations Report says. Slower growth, weaker trade and investment risk derailing development progress
April 2025
Media Advisory | Ministers and leaders to convene for high-level deliberations ahead of 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4)
Media Advisory | Ministers and leaders to convene for high-level deliberations ahead of 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4)
March 2025
2025 UN Ocean Conference Nice, France | 9 June – 13 June 2025
Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Headquarters in New York every March to take the pulse of the planet and make their voices heard.
Media Avisory | Third United Nations Ocean Conference set to accelerate urgent action for the sustainable use and conservation of the ocean
Third United Nations Ocean Conference set to accelerate urgent action [...]