Global Scans · Sustainable Development Goals · Weekly Summary

• [New] 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
• To align with SDG 12.3, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set a national goal to halve the 107 kg per capita of food waste landfilled or incinerated in 2016 by 2030. Nature
• Despite recent declines in hunger and food insecurity after pandemic-era spikes, global progress remains fragile, uneven across regions, and insufficient to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets by 2030. World Bank
• Despite improvements in some areas, the world is lagging on nearly all health-related SDG targets for 2030. all health tech
• A rapidly escalating cholera outbreak in Khartoum threatens to exacerbate mortality rates, undermining SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being). sdgtalks EN

Last updated: 27 October 2025