Where are forests in Europe’s Sustainable Development Goals plans?
Where are forests in Europe’s Sustainable Development Goals plans?
Author: Samuel White
In September 2015, after the largest consultation in the history of the United Nations, more than 150 world leaders agreed on a new agenda to “free the human race from the tyranny of poverty”.
The Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) lay out 17 universal goals, targets and indicators to frame the agendas and policies of UN member states for the next 15 years.
Launched amid great fanfare with the support of celebrities from Beyoncé to Usain Bolt and Stephen Hawking, the SDGs’ aims include ending “poverty in all its forms everywhere”, achieving “food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture”, and taking “urgent action to combat climate change and its impact”.
But between outlining these lofty ambitions and realising them lies an enormous gulf: the daunting and fiendishly complex task of agreeing on the policies required.
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