(Agreement on the world’s Sustainable Development Goals appears to
be self-contradictory, at least if the present “business as usual” regime
continues without interruption.
Such an observation makes no allowance, however, for the honourable
intentions and work of many people, but the present understanding of profit and
growth is simply not possible in a world wrestling such fundamentals as
poverty, resource scarcity and global atmospheric disruptions that are unsettling
the world’s climate systems)
Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute and
ClimateWorks, Australia , Monash
University, John Thwaites, writes about those goals today in The Conversation.
“Later this week, world leaders will gather at the United
Nations in New York and adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals to guide
global development. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull won’t be there, but Foreign
Minster Julie Bishop will sign Australia up to an ambitious set of goals and
targets that will apply to all countries from January 1 next year until 2030.
“After a long negotiation process, the 193 member states of
the United Nations have agreed to 17 goals and 169 targets that seek to
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, promote economic growth and prosperity,
improve health and education and protect the planet.”
Read his piece - “Explainer: the world’s new sustainable development goals”.
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