UAE’s commitment towards UN Sustainable Development Goals

High stakes at the UN on the Sustainable Development Goals.

A special event at the UN General Assembly on Sept 25, 2013 marks a bridge between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the end of 2015 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that presumably will run from 2016 to 2030.1 The special event will address urgent actions to accelerate progress to the MDGs over their remaining 2 years, while setting a timeline and diplomatic framework for ...

Governing the UN sustainable development goals: interactions, infrastructures, and institutions.

Three of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concerned health. There is only one health goal in 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Critiques of the MDGs included missed opportunities to realise positive interactions between goals. Here we report on an interdisciplinary analytical review of the SDG process, in which experts in diff erent SDG areas identifi ed potential i...

Towards evidence-based, quantitative Sustainable Development Goals for 2030

206 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 17, 2015 The success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on health has been due to their being easy to understand, ambitious, and achievable and, therefore, suitable for the purposes of advocacy and political mobilisation. The MDGs have brought quantitative targets and measurement of results—previously the domain of the scientifi c community— to cent...

Challenging Times for Public Health Towards Attaining Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology

Ontologies are built in a variety of circumstances, for different applications. Some are quite small and built with minimal consideration (or need) for extensibility. Others, such as many of the large-scale efforts in the OBO Foundry, have a team of developers, domain specialists and collaborators actively engaged in interactive development [1-2]. The size of the ontology, or the complexity of ...