(THIS ARTICLE IS ONLY MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
First there were the UN Millennium Development Goals (2015 targets) with eight development goals for the developing world, which world leaders today refer to as partially fulfilled – primarily because of developments in China, where millions of Chinese have been brought out of poverty.
In the follow-up to the 2015 targets, it was clear early on that new UN targets – first and foremost under the influence of global warming – for the nearly 15 years had to have a holistic perspective and encompass the planet and all of civilization.
Thus, 190 nations at the UN General Assembly in September 2015 could adopt the 17 new world goals.
17 Indicative World Goals. It may seem encouraging that the nations of the world have now adopted goals that set a sustainable direction for world development – a development that, in the UN context, began with the UN Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and in 1992 was followed by the decisions at the Rio Conference on Development and environment.
Together with the 17 world goals, a large number of different local, regional and transnational platforms for change exist today. For many, where survival is not a matter of 5, 10 or 30 years, but where climate change already has today is about life or death.
Respect for the political environment and the confidence in whether our politicians can be at the forefront of a transformation of our society is very small today. Today's politicians primarily focus on re-election, and this happens in a development universe where old concepts are dead and new ones are not in place at all.
The question today is whether the 17 world goals at all are a powerful enough tool to match the challenges facing the world. The 17 world goals are completely without attempts at an alternative to the economic model that has caused many of the problems the world is facing. Nor do the world goals contain any proposal for reducing population growth, and then the fulfillment of the world goals – provided through compromises – otherwise depends entirely on the local. . .
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