SDGs@UofT - Catalyzing transformative research that advances the Sustainable Development Goals globally.

More Than Ethics: Why We Must Recover the Transformative Power of Theory

Call for Applications: 2026-2027 SDGs@UofT Student Advisory Committee

What It Takes to Stay in School: Breaking the Economics of Inequality in Bihar

Chemical Pollution and Sustainability: International Perspectives

Re-imagining the national interest: How Trump's climate policy has shifted the U.S. away from a path toward sustainability

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SDGs Scholars Academy

The SDGs Scholars Academy serves as a think tank bringing together leading researchers and encouraging them to pursue convergence research and knowledge mobilization to address issues that are crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and informing future global goals.

Membership

The SDGs Scholars Academy will include distinguished fellows and fellows, who will be united by the breadth and depth of their expertise and interest in engaging in open and transparent dialogue about SDGs issues today and the future of the SDG, and who will engage affiliates interested in participating in SDGs Scholars Academy events. Distinguished fellows are selected based on […]

Research Themes

Four research themes have been identified that will be leveraged to create a research agenda to address complex intersecting problems reflected in the SDGs and inform future global goals. The SDGs@UofT research themes addresses multiple SDGs and illuminate ways in which they interact to prevent or enable sustainable development.

What's happening at SDGs@UofT

Call for Applications: 2026-2027 SDGs@UofT Student Advisory Committee

opportunities, student-engagement | July 23, 2026

The Student Advisory Committee has been created to lead tri-campus student engagement, emphasizing diversity in SDG initiatives, promoting an inclusive strategy, contributing to communication planning for a global trainee community, and playing a key role in mobilizing knowledge through peer interaction.

What It Takes to Stay in School: Breaking the Economics of Inequality in Bihar

blog | June 8, 2026

A child in rural Bihar drops out of school at Grade 5, not because they don’t value education, but because staying in school costs too much. By age ten, a child becomes a valuable worker on the farm. For lower‑caste families whose income depends on a single landowner, the decision to pull a child out of school […]

More Than Ethics: Why We Must Recover the Transformative Power of Theory

blog | July 20, 2026

When sustainability is discussed, the conversation almost always turns to action. We ask what governments should do, which policies should be adopted, how institutions should change, and what responsibilities individuals have toward future generations. These are indispensable questions, but I have become increasingly convinced that they rest on a deeper assumption that is rarely examined: our belief that the […]

The EU’s Renewable Energy ‘Permitting Turn’ - Prompted by Climate Action, Driven by Geopolitics

Events | May 21, 2026 1:00 pm

We are pleased to host Visiting Scholar John Szabo through the SDGs@UofT and Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability (IECS) joint Visiting Scholars Program at the University of Toronto. John's lecture will examine how the European Union has shifted toward reducing regulatory barriers to expand renewable energy deployment. While early efforts were driven mainly by climate […]

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