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Feeling overwhelmed by the current state of our world?.
In the years since I was born, nearly three-quarters of the species I knew as a boy have disappeared.
It’s not an isolated statistic.
September saw the annual pilgrimage of world leaders, business executives and a host of hangers-on travel to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
I explained that during my childhood, the only way to access further education and pursue a career in business or management was to move to major city locations.
It was an opportunity for an annual checkpoint on progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are due to be met by 2030. We’re past the halfway mark and according to the 2024 report, progress appears to be about as slow as the traffic in Manhattan during UNGA.
Only a worrying 17% of the targets are on track. Unlike New York’s gridlock, however, some key areas – such as biodiversity and gender equality – are not stagnant; they are regressing.
Today’s multilateral institutions and their annual gatherings simply aren’t working.
We need change – and the IDGs are an invitation for us all to do just that.
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, lamented