Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals do not Become Rhetoric
Aruna Sharma
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
Pandemics and economic wars cannot excuse a stagnation in progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The SDG index has stalled since 2020 and was one full point below the projections in 2022. Only 12% of targets are currently on track. Half are facing "e;moderate or severe deviations"e; due to "e;stagnation in the face of multiple crises"e; and 30% more have either stagnated or regressed. To ensure that SDGs are not reduced to mere rhetoric like the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and to accelerate progress towards the household related goals (SDGs 1 to 7, 10, 11, 16 and 17) and develop environmentally friendly sustainable livelihood opportunities (SDGs 8 and 9), the strategy has to have specific targets, rather than a thin spread of efforts. This book argues in favour of a shift to a common household database for each of the countries with real examples of the progress of developed, developing and underdeveloped economies towards achieving the SDG goals 1 to 7, 10, 11, 16 and 17.