Global Scans · Sustainable Development Goals · Weekly Summary

• [New] The UN calls for developed countries to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact in SDG 13 and The Paris Agreement sets up the net-zero goal for our global society: stating that greenhouse gas emissions must peak before 2025 at the latest and decline 43% by 2030. UNSW Sites
• [New] The global AIDS response has been upended in recent months but there is still much more to be done to achieve the SDG target of ending AIDS by 2030. EATG
• [New] Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy (SDG 7) remains a global challenge, with 660 million people projected to lack electricity by 2030. SpringerLink
• [New] Digital graphs could be key to pursuing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) by enabling better value chains, products, and services for more profitable or green investments in the financial sector and deriving trustworthy insight for creating sustainable communities. Euro Par 2025
• If current trends continue, 351 million women and girls will still be living in extreme poverty in 2030, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 5 - to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls-will be missed. UNEP-DHI
• All UN member states have committed to ending modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and child labour by 2030 under Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7. Minderoo Foundation
• Farmland restoration is central to the Rio Conventions and the UN 2030 Agenda, notably SDG 15.3, which aims to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality by 2030. CNS Media
• As 2030 approaches, the end of the SDG era, now is the time to intensify coordinated efforts, and to mobilize and reinvigorate global, regional, national and community-level commitments to end preventable maternal mortality. World Health Organization: WHO
• The sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.7 calls for the widespread distribution of sexual education and improved reproductive health care by 2030. BioMed Central
• Increasing access to access to safe, effective, and efficient pulse oximetry and medical oxygen use could help countries reduce the 2.3 million annual neonatal deaths and achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for newborn survival (SDG 3.2) by 2030. World Health Organization: WHO
• Despite significant progress, many individuals in lower-middle-income countries will continue to face challenges in accessing adequate nutrition, putting the achievement of the SDG target of improved global nutrition by 2030 at risk. OECD
• UN SDG 11 aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable by 2030 and is directly relevant to the work of planners and urban policymakers. Mirage News
• Without coordinated governance and biodiversity safeguards, the push for renewable energy could undermine international commitments under the UN Ocean Decade, the Convention on Biological Diversity and Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water). Mirage News
• The Scottish Government's Women and Girls Fund will deliver grants to women and girl-led organizations across Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia, aiming to contribute to the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The Scottish Government
• The GCoM plan is that large-scale financing instruments will fund local implementation of frontier technologies to construct global governance (SDG) compliant smart-cities. Unlimited Hangout
• Global evidence, literature, and experiences unite in a single message-collaborative efforts can halve hunger by 2030, advancing the vision of SDG 2. OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ( ORF )
• With only a few years remaining until 2030, South Sudan is still far from reaching SDG 3, Target 3.2 by 2030, as stated above. BioMed Central
• While global goals like SDG 16.9 are clear, the goal of providing legal identity for all by 2030 is often stalled by protocol fragmentation and the lack of a robust architectural model for a world where both people and AI agents are first-class citizens, it says. BiometricUpdate.com
• With new mandatory disclosures coming online in many markets by 2026, the next reboot could, for example, align to the future SDG indicators, post-2030. Morningstar UK
• The week closed with A Food Waste Breakthrough: Cutting Emissions by Reducing Food Waste, highlighting Japan's achievement as the only country to meet SDG 12.3 ahead of time-cutting food loss and waste by 53% since 2000 and now targeting 56% by 2030. UNEP - UN Environment Programme

Last updated: 08 December 2025