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Sustainable Development
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ended in 2015, succeeded by the Sustainable Development Goals that same year. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed upon by 193 countries culminating in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Since coming into effect in January 2016, governments have started to implement the SDGs. However, with an estimated $2-3 trillion USD needed to fund the goals each year until 2030, serious challenges are coming to light. For the SDGs to be successful, it requires collective action and coordination between governments, INGOs, NGOs, CBOs, lawyers, businesses, diplomats, and people at the heart of the global development in a climate of increasing inequality, rising fragility and conflict, unprecedented forced displacement, and climate change.
Sustainable Development Centre
The Sustainable Development Centre addresses these issues head on. The Sustainable Development Centre is a research organisation focusing on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the associated 169 targets. We focus on the goals as cross-cutting and complementary.
We reinforce the need to highlight “sustainability” in all concepts, recommendations, development programmes, and innovative solutions. Special emphasis is placed on local change-makers and locally-driven implementation of sustainable development.
Offering nuanced analysis, we recognise gaps or reforms, including more strongly connecting industrial development with ecological objectives, and rising human subsistence levels to combat extreme poverty above the recommended $1.25.