Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Rice paddies in the swamps and marshes maximize arable land, yielding food and economic security during the growing season. Innovative financial instruments can align financing with sustainability and ...

July 7 - As world leaders returned from the once-a-decade International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, they brought home a set of landmark commitments, collectively known as the ...

In an era marked by ecological challenges, development dilemmas and geopolitical dynamics are increasingly intertwined.

21 February 2025 - What has changed in the development landscape since 2015 that demands changes in how we approach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? What lessons have we learned from the ...

New WBCSD x KPMG report identifies the most influential risks to the sustainability agenda – and where business can act now ...

With this year’s annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29) summit set to take place in a little over a month in Azerbaijan, the world’s attention ...

Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm in July: “Halfway to ...

In 2012, world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro began to discuss a set of universal goals that would meet the environmental, political and economic ...

University of Iowa graduate student Emma Davis is one of two students enrolled in the UI’s Master of Science in Sustainability Development program. While she will be able to finish her studies, she ...