The portal provides visitors with a snapshot of the state of sustainable development around the world, and enables users to access and engage with sustainable development data. SDSN reports that the datasets were selected "based on the level of frequency, quality, international comparability, public availability, and ease of understanding".

The first edition of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity has been awarded to Greta Thunberg. The young Swedish environmental activist was selected among 136 nominees (corresponding to 79 organizations and 57 personalities) from 46 different countries.

This letter has been sent to all EU leaders and heads of state on 16 July 2020.You must stop pretending that we can solve the climate- and ecological crisis without treating it as a crisis

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket - EPA), UN Development Programme (UNDP), and UN Volunteers (UNV) programme launch a second round of the ‘Young Environmental Journalists’ campaign, to address environmental and human rights impacts in the mining sector in four resource-rich countries: Colombia, Kenya, Mongolia and Mozambique.