{"id":10334,"date":"2020-07-14T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","slug":"universities-are-key-to-achieving-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/14\/universities-are-key-to-achieving-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Are Key to Achieving Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Universities have demonstrated to the world during the COVID-19 crisis why their expertise matters and why international collaboration in higher education is needed to solve the world\u2019s pressing challenges, say the leaders of a conglomeration of international university organisations representing more than 2,000 institutions worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now is the time for the international community to recognise the fundamental importance of higher education to achieving all&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\">17 Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>&nbsp;(SDGS), which aim to end poverty, protect the planet, foster gender equality, defend and promote cultures and cultural understanding, and ensure prosperity for all, they say, and for universities to dedicate themselves to helping the world achieve those goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the message delivered by the leaders of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auf.org\/\">Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie<\/a>\u00a0(AUF), the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.ac.uk\/our-members\/\">Association of Commonwealth Universities<\/a>\u00a0(ACU) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau-aiu.net\/\">International Association of Universities<\/a>\u00a0(IAU) to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2020, which met online this week (7-16 July) to focus on progress towards the UN-led 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=20200711094917938\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities have demonstrated to the world during the COVID-19 crisis why their expertise matters and why international collaboration in higher education is needed to solve the world\u2019s pressing challenges, say&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}