2030 Sustainable Development Goals

As the population in Nigeria increases, efforts are underway to ensure that open defecation does not increase.
© WSSCC/Jason Florio

‘Transformational benefits’ of ending outdoor defecation: Why toilets matter

18 November 2019
Health

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the WSSCC (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council). 

In the village of Liwa, wood has become a precious resource. Women have mobilized to assist with the reforestation project. In the past 50 years, Lake Chad basin shrank from 25,000 square kilometers to 2,000square kilometers.
UNDP Chad/Jean Damascene Hakuzim

‘Most affected by climate change, the least responsible for it’, says UN Environment Assembly President

13 August 2019
Interviews

Transformative change is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – mobilizing civil society and individuals - but also through securing “national and a global leadership”. That’s according to the President of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), Mr. Ola Elvestuen, who is also Norway’s Minister of Environment. In an interview with UN News’s Ben Malor, Mr. Elvestuen underscored the need to have environment challenges addressed urgently.

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