Innovative ideas are needed for financing and structuring,if we are to deal with the increasingly chronic crises around the world. The general assembly of the United Nations has given its blessing to building a better world with the launch of the sustainable development goals – or the SDGs, as they occupy been tagged in the acronym-festooned corridors of global diplomacy. It has taken nearly three years and the largest consultation in the UN’s history to reach at this set of goals, or targets and indicators which will drive action over the next 15 years in areas of critical importance to humanity.
But what will the world explore like in 2030,and how much will the SDGs contribute to the shape it will be in by then? The immediate response is something akin to the one received by the traveller who asks a local how to get to a nearby town: “I wouldn’t start from here.” As these global goals are being adopted we are receiving ever more urgent knocks at the door from migration, clash and climate change – and all these challenges are beyond the means of individual countries to overcome.
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Source: theguardian.com