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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs·2020·The Sustainable Development Goals Report

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This year marks the start of the Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. It is a critical period to advance a shared vision and accelerate responses to the world’s gravest challenges – from eliminating poverty and hunger to reversing climate change. Yet, in only a brief period of time, the precipitous spread of the novel coronavirus turned a public health emergency into one of the worst international crises of our lifetimes, changing the world as we know it. Now, due to COVID-19, an unprecedented health, economic and social crisis is threatening lives and livelihoods, making the achievement of Goals even more challenging. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 presents an overview of progress towards the SDGs before the pandemic started, but it also looks at some of the devastating initial impacts of COVID-19 on specific Goals and targets. The report was prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with over 200 experts from more than 40 international agencies using the latest available data and estimates.

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  • Vulnerability levels have generally declined in recent decades.

    “Despite the highly uneven distribution of resilience across the world, vulnerability levels have generally declined in recent decades, aided by notable progress toward common development goals (73,74)”

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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Venue
The Sustainable Development Goals Report
Published
2020-07-14
ISSN
  • 2518-3915 (ISSN-L)
  • 2518-3958
OpenAlex
W4212989198
Cited by
527
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Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 75 · 2024: 61 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 119 · 2021: 126 · 2020: 72 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 2
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108.09
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
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The Sustainable development goals report (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Human Rights and Development
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Global socioeconomic and cultural dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals, SDG progress, COVID-19 pandemic impact, poverty, hunger, climate change, global crisis, SDG targets

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