Launching the first-ever Sustainable Development Goals report on the new global development agenda adopted last year, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that the 15-year undertaking is “off to a good start” but will require all parts of the UN family and its partners to work together.

“We have embarked on a monumental and historic journey,” the Secretary-General told the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), which opened on 11 July and ends on 20 July, at the UN Headquarters in New York.

“We must all learn, in national governments,

Less than a month since the global indicators for the sustainable development goals (SDGs) were agreed upon by the 47th Session of the UN Statistical Commission on 11 March, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) held its third meeting in Mexico City this week.

This meeting, which ran from 30 March through 1 April, marks the start of the implementation process of the global SDG indicators agreed by the Commission.  It focused on the classification of individual indicators according to the current availability of data and int

As the final piece of the architecture for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the proposed global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was agreed by the 47th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission which closed today.

Administrative records, big data and geospatial information are critical for improving people’s lives and protecting the planet. Data are everywhere, all the time, with smart phones, satellite imagery, social media, as well as the Internet.

“Sustainable Development Goal indicators are the last missing piece to complete the architecture of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda,” explained Stefan Schweinfest, Director of UN DESA’s Statistics Division, ahead of the 47th Session of the UN Statistical Commission, which takes place at UN Headquarters on 8-11 March.