You have timely posed this pertinent question about SDGs.

To me the ambitious goal of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere in the first place is a herculean task let alone sustaining this beyond 2030. The success of goal 1 will depend very much on how well enabling environment are created and supported for addressing other complementary SDGs particularly those related to economic growth ( goal 8), inequality ( gaol 10) and means of implementation/global partnership ( goal 17).

Sustainable development rooted in its three pillars ( social , economic and env)   has long ( from Bruntland to Rio)  been subject to competing agendas and distrust  between developed  and developing  countries with little actual implementation.

Second , there is uncertainty of how adequate financial resources will flow in to developing  countries in a situation when the SDGs will apply universally to both developed and developing countries in contrast to MDGs  which only focused on poor countries.

Under this circumstances, I don’t see any silver bullet to attain these goals without substantial shift in policy/priority  and global  governance to avoid the dirty narrowly defined GDP- led economic growth  as a dominant paradigm that is jobless, voiceless and ruthless while at the same time finding global solution to address globally rising high degree of inequality in both income and capital assets as a barrier to both inclusive growth and poverty reduction.   

It is unrealistic. Tremondous amount of welfarism is required, not only within the same countries but also among the countries. In this super capitalist world, it is very difficult (that is not to say communism is the answer). Moreover, population base and growth (and distribution) in the next 20 years will be a determining factor in attaining a world with lesser poverty.

I am in line with the above remarks made by Sate Ahmad.  But, to gain further insight into why capitalism is not working, let me suggest you to look at Thomas Piketty’s most recent book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” which predicts a world of low economic growth in relation to the rate of capital accumulation using the data over a two hundred years period.

The central tenet of this book is that when the rate of return on capital is greater than the rate of economic growth over the long term, the result is concentration of wealth in the hand of few richest families causing social and economic instability. It argues that the world today is returning towards "patrimonial capitalism", in which a few families control most of the inherited wealth and unless capitalism is reformed the very democratic order will be threatened.  

in case of absolute poverty, despite increasing trends of global average human wellbeing, the inequality is also becoming higher ! When we can not reduce poverty for farmers who are feeding us around the globe, zero poverty is not possible in both relative and absolute sense. Evidences from Bangladesh and India- the farmers sufferings still questioning that are we measure the MDGs and SDGs in an effective way?

Poverty is an environmental problem and poses a risk. It can be reduced to barely minimum when sustainable and favorable economic policies are adequately applied to salvage the marginalized set of people in the society. It ought to be addressed for the sustainability of the environment.

Poverty and Environmental problems are mutually networked. in the sense that poverty constitute environmental risk while environmental risk and hazard constitute poverty vice versa.   

Poor people over exploit resources of the environment that tends to result to certain challenges e.g over exploitation of forest resources like wood, resulting to specified set of problems vice versa environmental problems of e.g adverse climatic change seen from severe drought, desertification, Flooding and other agro -meteorological hazards accentuates poverty as the level of loss of lives and properties resulting to high rate of refugees etc. 

Poverty is an environmental problem and poses a risk. It can be reduced to barely minimum when sustainable and favorable economic policies are adequately applied to salvage the marginalized set of people in the society. It ought to be addressed for the sustainability of the environment.

Poverty and Environmental problems are mutually networked. in the sense that poverty constitute environmental risk while environmental risk and hazard constitute poverty vice versa.   

Poor people over exploit resources of the environment that tends to result to certain challenges e.g over exploitation of forest resources like wood, resulting to specified set of problems vice versa environmental problems of e.g adverse climatic change seen from severe drought, desertification, Flooding and other agro -meteorological hazards accentuates poverty as the level of loss of lives and properties resulting to high rate of refugees etc. 

This seems like an appropriate place to share this idea of ending "extreme wealth" instead of just ending poverty! 

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/swedish-band-the-knife-nail-central-flaw-of-the-uns-sustainable-development-goals/

This seems like an appropriate place to share this idea of ending "extreme wealth" instead of just ending poverty! Check out the link!

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/swedish-band-the-knife-nail-central-flaw-of-the-uns-sustainable-development-goals/