Pressing global issues like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change require urgent and widespread action. But the problems are interconnected and rapidly evolving. Fast-shifting technology frontiers, fragile geopolitics, and frequently divergent interests among governments, businesses, and civil society only magnify the complexity.
Progress hinges on both targeted insights and relentlessly collaborative approaches to surmount forces of inertia and political discord. To this end, the Center for Sustainable Development strives to promote public policies, institutional innovations, and multistakeholder enterprises that advance inclusive, resilient, and sustainable development for all people in all countries, with no one left behind.
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