Our largest cities, home to 80% of the population, are central to achieving sustainability in a time of climate change. The federal government has begun to act on the need for coherent urban policies.
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The essential ingredients in achieving the development goals are partnerships combined with smart thinking about how to deploy 21st century technologies.
Australia’s business-as-usual plan will not be enough to achieve our 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
It’s important yet complicated to align national development plans with the SDGs. But it isn’t impossible.
Universities play a major role in procuring the human and intellectual resources needed for fulfilling the various goals of the UN’s Agenda 2030.
How can African research universities be more responsive to African countries’ needs? And how can these universities work together to leverage funding for research informed by African realities?
The Millennium Development Goals failed in aspects like poverty. Lessons must be learnt to ensure that these mistakes will not be repeated by the Sustainable Development Goals.
Two years of marathon negotiations have finally yielded agreement in last-minute meetings in New York on the New Urban Agenda to be adopted at the Habitat III summit in Quito in October.
The 90-90-90 strategy is an attempt to get the HIV epidemic under control by adopting a ‘test and treat’ approach. This is part of the plan to eliminate AIDS by 2030.
The Open Government Partnership promotes transparency, public accountability and civic participation in government to combat corruption. It is hoped South Africa will help it grow in Africa.
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Researcher - African Security - One Earth Future Foundation, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development Governance, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor, Infectious Disease and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Executive Director Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Chief Scientific Officer, South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Researcher in Urban Food Security and Food Systems, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Aarhus University
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Visiting Professor of Sustainability Science, Technical University of Denmark
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Chair of Policy Innovation, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University
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Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW
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Professor Sustainability and Urban Governance, RMIT University
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
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Professor and Executive Dean: Engineering, University of Canterbury