You will hear more and more about it because the pursuit of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) contained in the 2030 Agenda will shape the future of society as an evolution of all its elements, starting with us: humanity. Or at least it is hoped.
Agenda 2030 has a long eye
17 Sustainable Development Goals contained in the 2030 Agenda, one more ambitious than the other, but all equally essential in order to outline a fair and sustainable ecosystem that can guarantee equal rights to the world’s citizens without any kind of social and economic discrimination.
The UN sees far ahead for the simple fact that the world as we know it today cannot be sustained in the long term due to climate change, mass migration and global population growth, all of which can undermine environmental, social and economic sustainability if not managed preventively and in a forward-looking manner.
Sustainable Development Goals
What are these goals?
We consider it significant to set out the salient points:
- Malnutrition affecting more than 800 million people
- Food production to double by 2050
- 2 billion people without safe drinking water
- 3.6 billion people do not have adequate sanitation services
- Thousands of women killed each year in Europe alone
- Still 675 million people without electricity
- The cooking of 2.3 billion people depends on harmful fossil fuels
- Global unemployment for more than 200 million people
- Cities are responsible for 75 per cent of global emissions and it is estimated that 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban centres by 2050.
- Last Earth Overshoot Day = 2 August 2023
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by more than 50 per cent between 1990 and 2012.
- Ocean acidification shows no sign of abating, contrary to the goal of minimising it by 2025.
- The desertification continues to increase and soil degradation could reach 90% in 2050.
On this topic, what do you think is the priority scale of the objectives mentioned?
Where do we stand?
As can be guessed, the situation is far from rosy, although there is no shortage of initiatives by governments and global organisations.
However, as the UN Report 2023 makes clear, climate targets remain out of reach without the adoption of a synergetic approach by the international community.
At the Climate Summit in New York, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders to amplify their commitment to fighting climate change and achieving the goals of the2030 Agenda, appealing to the fact that only 15% of them are being met, while many are regressing.
None of the OSS are unattainable, but a radical change of course is urgently needed, because if there is one thing we cannot control, it is time, and time is inexorably running out.
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