Sustainable Development Initiative

 

In September 2015, history was made when 193 countries gathered at the United Nations to adopt 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

What exactly is sustainable development? And how can we achieve that?

These 17 Global Goals provide a road map that will help the world achieve sustainable development. Let’s find out what are we talking about and how this can affect us.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

It’s obvious and understandable the need to grow everyone’s economies, but not everyone takes into account the negatives that unbalanced economic growth can have on the environment and on people’s well-being.

The sustainable development goals help us look at the world in a different way.

Sustainable development is about the big picture: it is about improving the lives of everyone, everywhere, and achieving all these things together.

But it's also about the details: