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Last day of the year: when change did not come from governments
An end-of-year reflection on real progress driven by people and civil society, one Sustainable Development Goal at a time.

Editorial Team SDG17
4 hours ago4 min read


Year in review: twelve stories that shaped 2025
A month-by-month selection of the most meaningful shifts, voices and ideas featured on Global Society News.

Editorial
1 day ago8 min read


Strategic UN partnership drives sustainable development innovation
Indonesia launches new cooperation framework to accelerate SDG progress through finance, data, and policy alignment

Editorial Team SDG17
5 days ago3 min read


Digital Power, Inclusion, and the Global Society: Patrick Lumumba’s Peer Interview with Edwin Ochola
A conversation on digital inclusion, African leadership, and building an inclusive Global Society through connection and shared responsibility.

Editorial Team SDG16
6 days ago5 min read


Melting glaciers are rewiring water security
The slow loss of mountain ice is becoming one of the most underestimated risks to global stability

Editorial Team SDG13
Dec 243 min read


When green slowly turns dark green
A calm reflection on climate actions that, beneath a sustainable narrative, reveal social and environmental costs that cannot be ignored

Editorial Team SDG17
Dec 234 min read


EPA web revisions spark concern over omission of fossil fuels in climate change explanation
Scientists warn that removing references to fossil fuels from U.S. environmental web pages risks public confusion and weakens climate literacy

Editorial Team SDG13
Dec 222 min read


Age of disconsent
youth exchange explores political literacy and responsible citizenship across borders

Editorial Team SDG16
Dec 213 min read


The inequality crisis and the age of ultra-wealth
Why extreme concentration of wealth is testing global fairness and SDG 10

Editorial Team SDG10
Dec 183 min read


Ai’s quiet drift toward structural inequality
How uneven access to emerging technologies could harden global divides in the decades ahead

Editorial Team SDG10
Dec 154 min read


Rebalancing power through storytelling: Shenali Rajaratnam’s expanding influence on global leadership
As her network widens, Rajaratnam’s work links digital equity, gender leadership and SDG-aligned collaboration across continents

Editorial Team SDG5
Dec 133 min read


The launch of the “be hope – end aids” campaign
Global solidarity, innovation and shared responsibility place the end of AIDS within reach

Editorial Team SDG3
Dec 124 min read


Gender Equality – A foundation for sustainable development and lasting peace
One of the most powerful, yet persistently undervalued, strategies for long-term sustainable development is hiding in plain sight.

Lovisa Ralpher WIN WIN
Dec 112 min read


WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award: a global beacon for sustainable change
Highlighting global leadership for sustainable development and gender-equal societies

Editorial Team SDG17
Dec 62 min read


Power of Women Conference 2025: A 22-hour global broadcast to reimagine power
A worldwide gathering explores how connection, culture and shared leadership can reshape global decision-making

Editorial Team SDG5
Nov 307 min read


Gender, power and the climate test at cop30
The gender action plan on the table in belém could hard-wire accountability, finance and inclusion into climate policy or leave it cosmetic

Editorial Team SDG5
Nov 244 min read


The Church’s contradictions: a history of charity, power and moral dilemmas
Exploring both the noble and troubling sides of the Church’s role in helping the disadvantaged throughout history.

Editorial Team SDG16
Nov 203 min read


Global women and youth unite ahead of G20 South Africa to champion peace, wellbeing and balanced leadership
Worldwide digital gathering calls for inclusive governance and values-driven leadership rooted in peace and shared prosperity

Editorial Team SDG17
Nov 163 min read


Climate governance meets human rights at COP30
Global South voices push for forest justice and fair finance as climate talks open in the Amazon’s heart

Editorial Team SDG13
Nov 122 min read


Multilateralism under pressure needs smarter partnerships to save the 2030 promise
As the un turns 80, a Bangkok policy dialogue spotlights risks to cooperation, and the fixes that could still work

Editorial Team SDG16
Nov 84 min read


Youth power and SDG reinvention
A new cohort hints at institutional change, but real influence depends on funding, mandates and shared accountability

Editorial Team SDG17
Nov 33 min read


Justice beyond borders: inside the tribunal that governs the world’s seas
An insight into ITLOS in Hamburg, where maritime disputes are settled under international law and justice at sea is upheld

Petra Fritz
Nov 25 min read


Europe’s regulatory retreat risks leaving developing nations exposed
Simplifying EU environmental and chemical rules could erode the global standards that protect the world’s poorest economies

Editorial Team SDG10
Oct 313 min read


Global plan to quadruple use of sustainable fuels by 2034
Brazil leads initiative to boost biofuels, biogas, hydrogen and synthetic e-fuels for hard-to-abate sectors

Editorial Team SDG7
Oct 293 min read
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