Ban Ki-moon: new global goals ‘blueprint for a better future’
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UN row simmers over climate inclusion in development goals
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Climate clings to sustainable development goals as debate intensifies
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UN bids for leadership role in ‘age of sustainable development’
New report claims UN is only organisation able to implement Sustainable Development Goals that are set to guide economic thinking until 2050
Post-2015 sustainability goals ‘should target consumption’
New group representing Least Developed Countries says post-2015 agenda should focus on role of rich nation in damaging environment
Saudi Arabia blocks climate change from UN poverty goals
Group of oil producing nations looks to keep clean energy targets out of new sustainable development poverty framework
World Bank plans to take lead in climate challenge
Jim Yong Kim calls for end to extreme poverty by 2030 and promises organisation will boost efforts to address climate change