How to make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a reality within 8 years

Nov 25, 2022

The UN Sustainable Development Goals have been on the agenda at this year’s COP27 meeting in Egypt. Image: REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo

Rees Kassen

Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ottawa

Ruth Morgan

Professor of Crime and Forensic Sciences, University College London (UCL)

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