UN Sustainable Development Goals

May, 2016.

The challenges of the early 21st Century require a global response. But how to organize it?

One way is through the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Two important goals are Goal 13 (Climate Action, for obvious reasons) and Goal 16 (Peace, for without that implementation is more difficult; see the Global Peace Index.

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"Looking at the overall process of elaborating the goals, targets, and indicators, the progression reveals a downward trend: with some exceptions, the set of goals are more ambitious than the targets, and the targets are more ambitious the indicators."


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