Global Scans · Sustainable Development Goals · Weekly Summary

• [New] The Scottish Government's Women and Girls Fund will deliver grants to women and girl-led organizations across Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia, aiming to contribute to the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The Scottish Government
• [New] The GCoM plan is that large-scale financing instruments will fund local implementation of frontier technologies to construct global governance (SDG) compliant smart-cities. Unlimited Hangout
• [New] Global evidence, literature, and experiences unite in a single message-collaborative efforts can halve hunger by 2030, advancing the vision of SDG 2. OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ( ORF )
• [New] With only a few years remaining until 2030, South Sudan is still far from reaching SDG 3, Target 3.2 by 2030, as stated above. BioMed Central
• While global goals like SDG 16.9 are clear, the goal of providing legal identity for all by 2030 is often stalled by protocol fragmentation and the lack of a robust architectural model for a world where both people and AI agents are first-class citizens, it says. BiometricUpdate.com
• With new mandatory disclosures coming online in many markets by 2026, the next reboot could, for example, align to the future SDG indicators, post-2030. Morningstar UK
• The week closed with A Food Waste Breakthrough: Cutting Emissions by Reducing Food Waste, highlighting Japan's achievement as the only country to meet SDG 12.3 ahead of time-cutting food loss and waste by 53% since 2000 and now targeting 56% by 2030. UNEP - UN Environment Programme
• To align with SDG 12.3, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set a national goal to halve the 107 kg per capita of food waste landfilled or incinerated in 2016 by 2030. Nature
• Despite recent declines in hunger and food insecurity after pandemic-era spikes, global progress remains fragile, uneven across regions, and insufficient to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets by 2030. World Bank
• Despite improvements in some areas, the world is lagging on nearly all health-related SDG targets for 2030. all health tech
• A rapidly escalating cholera outbreak in Khartoum threatens to exacerbate mortality rates, undermining SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being). sdgtalks EN
• Only 17% of the SDG targets are on track to be met by 2030. Morningstar UK

Last updated: 20 October 2025