Comprehensive list of recorded sessions from UNGA78 events — The 2023 UN General Assembly featured thousands of conferences, sessions, and events related to the Sustainable Development Goals. The team at SDGCounting and our sister project StartingUpGood dedicated countless hours to following the proceedings. Despite our best efforts, there was just too much quality content to ingest in real time…

Accelerating Action for the Second Half — The 78th United Nations General Assembly officially began on Monday with the commencement the SDG Summit. This gathering marks the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda and anchors an exceptionally busy Global Goals Week. The message is clear: We are off track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030…

What you need to know about the SDG Summit, Global Goals Week, and all the SDG-related activities during the UN General Assembly — September is crucial for the Sustainable Development Goals, aligning with the UN General Assembly and various Global Goals events. At the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda, this month features the SDG Summit, Global Goals Week, and significant multi-lateral meetings. …

2023 Global Sustainable Development Report — Every year experts write thousands of pages reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals. But, which documents are worth your time? The best resources will provide impartial assessment, comprehensive details, actionable objectives, and acknowledge not only what needs to done, but more importantly, how we can get there. As part of…

Unlocking Insights from the Voluntary National Review Process Using Machine Learning — Data scientists, statisticians, policy makers, and stakeholders all love the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development for the breadth of information it provides on the status of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …

The High Level Political Forum serves as an annual platform for stakeholders across the globe to discuss the progress and challenges surrounding the Sustainable Development Goals. In a previous article, we broke down what to expect from the event and how to follow along. …

Everything you need to know about the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development — Are you ready for a fire hose of content on the Sustainable Development Goals? That is what you can expect when the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development gets under way from July 10–19. The HLPF serves as the annual platform for the Economic and Social Council of…

Four Startup Stories from The 2023 UN World Data Forum — Increasingly, people are using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as tools to track — and even implement — the Sustainable Development Goals. These new technologies also feature prominently in entrepreneurial and startup settings. Here, we explore the crossover between the SDGs and the emerging companies that employ these tools. Note…

UNDP’s new tool can help experts better understand their data — Can an organization like the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have too much data? Probably not, but experts within UNDP’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), the group tasked with conducting objective project evaluations, were quickly realizing that the more reports they had access to, the harder it was to extract timely and…