Your comprehensive guide to the Sustainable Development Goals summit

World leaders will pledge to tackle poverty, inequality and climate change at a historic event in New York. Here's everything you need to know about it

After nearly three years of open global consultations, fraught negotiations and some high jinks, the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) are expected to be adopted by UN member states at a special summit convened at the UN headquarters in New York from 25 to 27 September. The event sits within the programme of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which opens on 15 September.