In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals (officially known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs). These goals have the power to create a better world by 2030, by ending poverty, fighting inequality and addressing the urgency of climate change.

Voluntary Local Review (VLR) is an instrument of local reporting on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are a part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September 2015.

The SUNRAISE ACT! webinar series received a great opening on September 07, 2021 with the lecture “Sustainable Development Goals and ESG – objectives and instruments for greening economic development of Russia”  by Dr. Evgeny Shvarts, Head of the Centre for Responsible Natural Resource Use of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences.