Why Sustainable Development Goals?
Today, the issue of sustainable growth presents us with enormous challenges. Unemployment (especially among young people), threats to the world's health, escalating conflicts, violent extremism, terrorism, and related humanitarian crises as well as the forcible displacement of people are just a few of the problems that millions of citizens continue to face (Mensah, 2019). They also include growing inequalities within and between nations, gaps in opportunity, wealth, and power, and gaps in opportunity, wealth, and dignity.
In addition, the survival of numerous civilizations and the planet's living systems are in jeopardy. The negative effects of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, such as desertification, drought, land degradation, freshwater scarcity, and loss of biodiversity; and climate change - rising global temperatures, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and other climate change impacts - are adversely affecting coastal areas and low-lying coastal countries, including many least developed countries and small island developing states, in a severe way.
Based on this, the UN Member States' adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015 provided a great framework for peace and prosperity for people and the earth, both now and in the future (Griggs et al., 2017).
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
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Reference list:
Griggs, D. et al. (2017) A guide to SDG interactions: From science to implementation. Paris: International Council for Science.
Mensah, J. (2019) “Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review,” Cogent Social Sciences, 5(1), p. 1653531. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1653531.
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