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15 results for "sustainable development goals"
![Sophia and Job at BGS conducting specialist analysis of Pu in soils.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Job_Sophia_Lab_T-Barlow_thumbnail.jpg)
Harnessing global collaboration: UK/Kenya partnership in soil erosion research
Collaboration between scientists is vital in today's interconnected world to further scientific progress. In environmental research, issues such as soil erosion demand collaboration on an international scale.
![Illustrative figure to show links between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the urban environment. Over and above SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities), urban centres can help deliver many of the UN SDGs. (Source: UN SDGs and Geological Survey of Norway, NGU.)](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sustainability-16-02559-g002.png)
Delivering a sustainable urban future for Europe through geoscience
Research, led by BGS and EuroGeoSurveys’ Urban Geology Expert Group, explores how urban geoscience is reflected in European urban and environmental policy.
![A snow-capped mountain stands in the distance, with wetlands in the foreground.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/more-bog-thumb.webp)
Land-use change and adaptation
Investigating human-induced land-use and climate change pressures in agricultural and urban settings, and evaluating nature-based solutions that help communities to adapt to climate change.
![© Samuel Kouakou – Téhini, Côte d’Ivoire](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2-KOUAKOU-GW-Photo-Competition_web_thumb.jpg)
A tale of two groundwaters
Why the United Nations 2023 Water Conference needs to know more about groundwater.
![People in hi-vis vests and hard hats stood in front of layered, folded rocks](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Chan-Sow-Lin-MRT.jpg)
‘Significant opportunity’ for engineering geologists to increase influence on global sustainable development
Engineering geologists have an essential role to play in meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
![Underground research at Boulby Mine](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Boulby_mine_research2_web_thumb.jpg)
The scientists going underground in search of answers to energy storage
Finding answers to some of our planet’s biggest challenges can require scientists to carry out their work in the most extraordinary of environments.
![A wom,an pumping water from a public well in a street](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PumpingWater.jpg)
Improving water security in the Philippines
Water supplies in parts of the Philippines are frequently scarce and supplies are often shut down. Intermittent water supply in parts of the country presents serious consequences to health.
![SDG scientists edit](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SDG-scientists-edit-960x540.jpg)
New book sets out the role of geoscience in achieving a sustainable future
The role of geoscience in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals is the subject of a new book edited by staff at the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Geology for Global Development (GfGD), a charity which aims to promote the role of geology in sustainable development.