April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
... of disaster. The use of solar energy could support various international terrestrial initiatives including the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals The use of solar power sources can potentially contribute to, and support the targets of the Charter...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
.... Other countries have since followed Peru’s example. The UN is a champion of sustainable development and we are halfway through our journey to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but they still look like far away targets. We must...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... as Space4SDGs identifies how space applications can support its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which incorporates 17 sustainable development goals, or SDGs. The importance of space in achieving these SDGs is illustrated by the use of Earth...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... degradation due to pollution and gradually gave rise to the much broader concept of sustainable development now encapsulated in the 17 ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ adopted by the United Nations in 2015. In a similar manner, what is now broadly...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
.... Towards achievement of the UN SDGs, the space sector has the potential to contribute to almost all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of humanity and, for this purpose, the UN General Assembly adopted the “Space 2030 Agenda: space as a driver...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
...have a key role to play in addressing global issues, especially in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals; this role was affirmed in the Dubai Declaration that emerged from the recent High Level...
