The Sustainable Development Goals are set for adoption by the 193 United Nations member states shortly after Pope Francis brings his activist message to the world body on Friday – a message sure to include calls to pull back from the abyss of a heating world and to spread global wealth among the neediest.
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Goal 1, for example, stipulates the end of poverty in all its forms everywhere, and many developed countries would argue poverty is no longer a big issue for them.
“The MDGs end-point report chronicled the gains recorded in the implementation of the 15-year development framework as well as challenges and gaps requiring attentions in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will be adopted by world leaders at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly as the replacement for the MDGs”, the statement said.
More details in this week’s edition of Georgia Today newspaper.
Within each of the goals there are targets such as reducing by at least half the number of people living in poverty according to national definitions (goal 1.2) and reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases like diabetes by one-third by 2030 (goal 3.4). That could prove challenging for Germany, where poverty and inequality have been on the rise.
Lake said health and education, as well as hope, are important for children if the world is to achieve its sustainable development aims.
“We must increase the focus on the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development”, the spokeswoman said in emailed comments to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. While one of the MDGs (goal 7) sought to ensure environmental sustainability, most of the focus under this goal has been on the target to halve the proportion of the population without safe drinking water or sanitation. “And I don’t want to think about what the end-game looks like in 15 years if we don’t get this right”. “This is about survival”, said Susan Brown of the WWF worldwide .
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But it still spends only 0.4 percent of its national income on aid despite having promised to meet the target this year, a pledge only Britain has met so far among the G7 countries. Ooredoo will continue to work hard to stimulate human growth and contribute to the sustainable development of the communities it operates in.
