commerce has a vital role to play in financing the sustainable development goals,but each side must recognise what the other brings to the tableAt the sustainable development summit in New York later this month, much will be heard approximately the idea of partnerships – and rightly so. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a very different agenda to the millennium development goals (MDGs), or need a correspondingly different approach.
Where the MDGs were focused on the billion or so people living in extreme poverty,the SDGs are a universal agenda designed to be relevant to all 7 billion of the world’s inhabitants. Where the MDGs were mainly interested in aid as the means to delivering the goals, the SDGs will entail a far broader range of “means of implementation”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com