Library Guides: Triggering Change: UN SDGs

Data, Visualizations, and Information about the UN SDGs

UN The 17 Goals | Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
A global network using data to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals—improving lives, fighting inequality, and promoting environmental sustainability.
SDG Tracker: Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
SDG Tracker presents data across all available indicators from the Our World in Data database, using official statistics from the UN and other international organizations. This free, open-access information tracks global progress towards the SDGs and allows people worldwide to hold their governments accountable for achieving the agreed goals.
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) works under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General to mobilize the world’s universities, think tanks, and national laboratories for action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; empower societies through free online education; and translate scientific evidence and ideas into solutions and accountability.
World Bank | Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs are measured.
World Tourism Organization | Tourism for SDGs
UNWTO is responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism geared towards the achievement of the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Springer Nature | Sustainable Development Goals Programme
Springer Nature's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme aims to connect the researchers who are tackling the world’s toughest challenges with the practitioners in policy and business who desperately need those insights to achieve their goals in improving the world, by making our publishing activities more visible to our key communities through a variety of channels.
E-Handbook on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators
This handbook is targeted towards national statisticians to enable them to monitor progress made in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals based on data produced by national statistical systems.
KnowSDGs Platform
KnowSDGs (Knowledge base for the Sustainable Development Goals) is a web platform that provides tools and organises knowledge on policies, indicators, methods and data to support the evidence-based implementation of the SDGs.
Eurostat | Sustainable Development Goals
Key findings of the most recent Eurostat monitoring of the EU's progress towards the SDGs; information and data on the EU SDG indicators; data visualisation tools to see whether EU members make progress towards the SDGs.
Green Chemistry for Sustainability | Special Collection: U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Explore our virtual collection of ACS publications related to the U.N. SDGs
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
Based in Tokyo, Japan, UNU-IAS serves the international community by producing evidence-based knowledge and solutions to inform policymaking and address priority issues for the UN system.
SDGs Today
A program of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Empowering everyone, everywhere, to advance the 2030 Agenda through timely and geospatial data, data-driven storytelling, and GIS education.
FAO's SDG Helpdesk
The FAO Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Helpdesk is a gateway to FAO's knowledge, tools and expertise for assisting Members and other actors, implement the 2030 Agenda and achieve the 17 SDGs through the transformation of our global agrifood systems.
World Economic Forum | Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a blueprint for global progress. This collection presents key strategic issues related to the 17 goals, and illustrates their connections to other social, technological, and environmental concerns.

Legal Resources

SDG Legal Guide
The Legal Guide to the SDGs is a unique resource that provides a foundational analysis of the role that law can and should play in the achievement of the SDGs. Developed in collaboration with lawyers, academics, and development practitioners, the Guide is made up of 17 distinct chapters, each focussed on one of the 17 Goals.

Business Resources

Business for 2030
This site showcases business' past and continuing contributions to sustainable development through the prism of the SDGs with the goal of stimulating a more productive partnership between the public and private sectors at the UN and at national levels and to demonstrate the need for a proportionate role for business in the negotiations, implementation and follow-up mechanisms of the 2030 Development Agenda at both the UN and at national levels.
UN Global Impact | Business
The multi-year strategy of the UN Global Compact is to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Global Goals | Business Avengers
The Business Avengers comprise some of the world’s largest and most influential companies, all of which are committed to playing a significant role in achieving the Global Goals by 2030.
B Lab's 17 Days for 17 Goals Campaign
Across 17 days, the B Lab community is showing up to work towards the 2030 agenda - from B Corps to Movement builders, funders, partners and SDG Action Manager users.
SDG Compass
The SDG Compass provides guidance for companies on how they can align their strategies as well as measure and manage their contribution to the realization of the SDGs. Features inventories of business tools and indicators
Blueprint for Business Leadership on the SDGs
The Blueprint for Business Leadership on the SDGs aims to inspire all business — regardless of size, sector or geography — to take leading action in support of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Educational Resources

SDG Academy
Free educational resources from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development.
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) | SDG Knowledge Hub
The SDG Academy represents the education and training division of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with the mandate of promoting transformative education through the creation and curation of high-quality content on sustainable development, sharing of innovative pedagogies and training models, and providing open access to learning resources for a global audience.
SDG International Publishers Association
The International Publishers Association (IPA) is the world’s largest federation of national, regional and specialist publishers’ associations. This interactive SDG site showcases diverse examples of how publishers are both improving sustainable business practices and act as agents of change in critical areas such as education, equality and justice.
UNESCO: Climate change education
As a knowledge-based organization, UNESCO publishes global data and scientific information to guide public policies.
Stairway to SDG
Stairway to SDG is a partnership of seven organisations from six European countries in the field of vocational training. Its aim is the promotion and integration of sustainability values based on the definition of concrete personal actions linked to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Check out this podcast series produced by UN SDG:Learn that features leaders and learners of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

University World News | SDG Hub
University World News is an online global higher education publication, which provides in-depth, independent news and commentary on higher education and research worldwide, both North and South.

Triggering Change: UN SDGs

Exploring the SDGs

The links on this page contain information, interactive visualizations, and additional reports for all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Feel free to find this semester's Triggering Pitch SDGs among them.

Data, Visualizations, and Information about the UN SDGs

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News about the SDGs