UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development

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  1. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    The United Nations General Assembly, which is made up of the 193 member nations, has recently adopted 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

    These goals are expected to shape political policy worldwide for the next 15 years.

    Chief among the goals are the aims to end poverty and hunger by 2030.

    More information here:

    http://www.globalgoals.org/

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  3. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    Not sure that will help but won't hurt. Goals 1 & 2 (End poverty and hunger) are sort the same, and not at the top of my list. Education and Control of Climate change would be. The sub-goals of that last are:

    (1) Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
    (2) Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
    (3) Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
    (4) Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
    (5) Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

    Unfortunately, this is just "motherhood" not even mentioning the source of the problem, which is the ancient "problem of the commons." (Our air and water to be specific.) So long as there is profit to be made by trashing them, not much will change.
     
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