The world is becoming increasingly urbanised, and the population is constantly growing. Today, more than half of us live in cities, placing them at the forefront of some of our biggest challenges — from public health to climate change.
Inequalities, based on issues such as gender, disability, age, race, income and opportunity, persist across the world — both within and between countries. Beyond the very real impacts that inequalities have on people’s day to day lives, they limit social and economic development, and reduce our ability to effectively address global crises.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development. UN Sustainable Development Goals can can only be met through collaboration. Investments and support is needed to ensure innovative technological development, fair trade and market access is achieved.
There is no country in the world that is not seeing first-hand the drastic effects of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and are now more than 50 percent higher than their 1990 level. Further, global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not take action now.
Professor Susanne Becken will share her knowledge this month at the Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals 2019 event at Massey University.
Financial crimes cover a wide range of illegal activities, including scams, money laundering, trafficking, tax evasion and child exploitation that...
Griffith University is one of two Australian universities selected to host a United Nations (UN) 2023 Millennium Fellowship Class (MFC), designed to foster student-led projects which support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This is the critical decade for climate action and all foreign policy interventions will be judged against this global challenge. To meet this challenge, it is time for Australia to adopt the focus and techniques of feminist foreign policy.
Griffith University’s Business School has been recognised with two awards at the global QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards.
For the third year in a row Griffith has been named in the world’s Top 250 universities, ranked within the 201-250 band in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022.
