Utopia must wait: Suspension of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals would allow a focus on the immediate crises threatening the world.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Lidén, Jon
- Source
- World Today. Aug2023, Vol. 79 Issue 4, p10-11. 2p.
- Subject
- *CRISES
*UTOPIAS
*CLIMATE change
*FOOD security
- Language
- ISSN
- 0043-9134
The article focuses on the shortcomings of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and argues that they have become a distraction from addressing immediate global crises. Topics include the utopian nature of the SDGs, the challenges in achieving them, the need for a focus on urgent global crises like climate change and food security.