The New Sustainable Development Goals: a Vision for Living in Harmony with Nature
Wildlife Conservation Society on September 25, 2015
Cristián Samper and John Scanlon
This week in New York, the U.N. General Assembly will adopt a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that represent an unprecedented opportunity to safeguard globally threatened wildlife species. The new goals are part of an agenda called Transforming Our World: The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda a vision for the planet in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected.
The new effort picks up the work of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) an 8-pronged approach to eliminating poverty while improving health care and education that were adopted a decade and half ago and will sunset this year. Although governments, agencies, non-governmental organizations, and industry have become more engaged in and committed to sustainable development since the MDGs were adopted in 2000, much more needs to be done.
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