https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/09/what-are-the-sustainable-development-goals/

http://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/podcasts/sustainable-development

https://qz.com/579251/the-success-of-the-uns-sustainable-development-goals-depend-in-large-part-on-business-buy-in/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/09/what-are-the-sustainable-development-goals/

http://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/podcasts/sustainable-development

https://qz.com/579251/the-success-of-the-uns-sustainable-development-goals-depend-in-large-part-on-business-buy-in/

Thank you, dear Dr Hamit,

I´ll look it carefully.

Best regards.

AH

In the main, the Millennium Development Goals were targets for poor countries, to whom rich countries extended solidarity and assistance. There is a different feel to the Sustainable Development Goals: they were arrived at after a three-year long inclusive and participatory process that involved governments, business, and civil society; they set goals and targets for all countries so all may work together for the global well-being of this generation and those to come. They are integrated and indivisible. They aim to stimulate action in five areas of critical importance to humanity and the planet:

• People (SDGs 1–6)
• Prosperity (SDGs 7–10)
• Planet (SDGs 11–15)
• Peace SDG 16
• Partnership (SDG 17)

PS: Understand: The Global Goals, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302377272_Understand_The_Global_Goals, may be of interest. There is also a project titled Understand: The Sustainable Development Goals at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Understand-The-Sustainable-Development-Goals that regroups 18 references.

Dear Dr Olivier,

Thank you very much for your attention and kindness.

I´lll look carefully to the links that you sent.

Best regards.

AH

I welcome such move by United Nations and expect that it will benefit our planet, ecosystem and poor in the world. However, I estimate that strengthening democracy (or any other political system) is essential for that. As it is countries, who have to implement the processes. Where machinery of government are weak and/or corrupt, implementation will be hard.

Our democracy would be extended to biosphere (at the place of humanity or nation), so that our planet would be safer to life and life system.

Depending on the government policies and political situiations

The corruption plays a key role for FDI and growth of the country.....

SDGs will change conditions of the underdeveloped/developing world provided the governments of these countries adopt the goals of sustainable development efficiently.

Political classes are elite classes in different countries. Sometimes it is controlled by some corporate which have interests to expand their business.

If political parties assemble for a common minimum plan to save environment, it would be easy for agencies of UN.

However I see political parties do politics in favour of themselves on the issues of environment also.

S&T increases industrialization which increases economical gap within the society. And democracy and other political system are unable to find a solution where economical gap could be minimized.

Hello,

Generally speaking, the goal of sustainable development is to decide upon practical programs involving economic, social, and environmental dimensions of human activities for changing the living conditions in underdeveloped and developing countries. However, as you have very rightly pointed out, SD programs cannot change the staus quo for two different but complementary reasons. First, the dependence of these countries on superpowers which always try to impose their own world views that are not compatible with the normative values of the local people. Second, the local governments are not chosen on democratic criteria, and as a result, very often they are corrupted. It seems to me that sustainable development should first capitalize on cultural values of the people before being able to evoke any considerable change in the said areas.

Best regards,

R. Biria

Good point. Strongly agree with Reza Biria's view. For the same case, in my country as a comparison, efforts to promote the status of people's lives can not be explained by the "acceleration" approach from the external perspective. However, it should be used an "acceleration" perspective from within, based on the culture of the community itself. The outlook from the outside is always coercive. It is assured that the result does not bring about permanent progress, but is temporary. Then why should follow the cultural pattern that comes from outside? Because, people in my country have already believe that: (1) something that comes from outside it is always true, though not necessarily good; (2) high mental prestige - advertising victim; (3) prefer symbolic formality rather than factual material that is clearly needed; (4) are more interested in deductive rather than inductive approaches.

In my opinion, I have failed to understand the application of MDG's. In the field of education, until the Year 2015, the desired achievement of education 9 years. In fact, it can not be solved nationally or regionally. Now, there is another sustainability MDG, s up to 12 years. It will only get worse. All education policies are directed hurriedly, and national officials to the regions are busy designing the adjustment of the accelerated program plan. It is good to use examples from Japanese, Korean and Chinese experiences that remain consistent in cultural roots with their local wisdom. They also use the acceleration approach but remain consistent in the pattern of his own.

Dear Dr. Silo Akbar,

You did an incredible explanation.

Thank you for sharing your vision.

I really appreciate that.

All my best wishes.

AH.

We need to change priorities human survival in 2050 or mere concrete....development...?

Dear AH.

Thank you for your appreciation and understanding.

I hope that in the future we should be able to discuss how to guard the design and implementation of sustainability development goals that are really sincere to the poor. It is not elegant to use only world indicators, without considering the importance of local indicators.

Thank you, you are my idol who has started to inspire this discussion.

Dear Dr. Silo Akbar,

Thank you for your attention and kindness.

I totally agree that we need to "put up this flag" to design sustainability development inclusive and especially to the poor.

Thank you, one more time.

AH

Dear Scientists,

While I work on my research projects, I share some parts with specialists to have some support and critics. I believe that it makes better the quality of my work.

Thank you to have participated actively in the discussions I proposed. Your vision is a very good contribution to me. The best way to make me a better scientist.

All the best for all of you.

AH

Greener to begin.

And safer to plan for 2050 or else the physical will ingest the soul of earth sea and sky and ecosphere.

I sincerely hope that they will. They will though need help to do to, and since developed countries bear the main responsibility for proceeding climate change affecting a multitude of SDGs, we are also obliged to help.

Achieving the SDGs requires, howevever everyone's contribution. Thus it is important to remember, that the usefulness and suitability of practises and technologies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals is more important than its level of sophistication.For exampel in agriculture (SDG2 Zero Hunger) gradual local or regional transfers between developing countries could lead to more resilient systems than global transfers.

https://www.climatecolab.org/contests/2017/exploring-synergistic-solutions-for-sustainable-development/c/proposal/1334230

Hi Aurelio, what answer would you give to your own question if you were asked it?

Thanks,

-Steve

Dear Steven,

Interesting option.

In fact, I believe that less than half of underdeveloped countries (I don´t have a number - it´s just a shot) will succeed.

Almost all of them are struggling with bad policies, corruption, big and inept states, horrible politicians and no meritocracy-based methods.

Unfortunately, I believe that - despite the technological evolution that humankind is experimenting - moral sense is still smaller than it should, all over the world, but in underdeveloped countries, it appears more clearly!

Thanks for asking, dear Steven. But, what is your opinion?

All the best for you.

AH

Dear Dr. Rajendra, that´s a good question! Thanks for sharing.

Dear Dr. Mike Smith, thanks for the thesis and for participating.

Dear D. Jan Kunnas, thanks for the tips and the excellent insight, so many times forgotten " it is important to remember, that the usefulness and suitability of practices and technologies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals are more important than its level of sophistication."

All the best for all of you.

AH

These are just initiatives for UN bodies to justify their continued existence. That's all.

It is helping to a fair degree especially boosting the developments of nations.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a SMART goal to all global issues. However its main challenges to be effective may be in developing countries. This is because stagnant economic development, poor governance, lack of well skilled man power and the like may retard the expected development in expected time span.

Dear Emmanuel,

You make me think! Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Dear Dickson,

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Dear Belay

I agree with you that " SDG is a SMART goal to all global issues" and worry about " stagnant economic development, poor governance, lack of well skilled man power and the like" as much as you. I live in a developing country and feel what you´re saying.

Thanks for sharing.

All the best for all of you.

AH

Greetings Aurelio,

What would you say your definition of success is? Could you name any countries that recently went from underdeveloped to developed that you would consider a success?

Warm Regards,

-Steve

In fact, I believe that less than half of underdeveloped countries (I don´t have a number - it´s just a shot) will succeed. Almost all of them are struggling with bad policies, corruption, big and inept states, horrible politicians and no meritocracy-based methods.

Unfortunately, I believe that - despite the technological evolution that humankind is experimenting - moral sense is still smaller than it should, all over the world, but in underdeveloped countries, it appears more clearly!

Thanks for asking, dear Steven. But, what is your opinion? All the best for you. AH

Dear Steven,

Good to hear from you.

I believe that a good definition of success - in this SDG´s case - would be the total achievement of the goals, or at least, some high percentage of that.

Unfortunately, I don´t know any country that has crossed this frontier nowadays. Maybe the world financial crisis has influenced some that were near this frontier, but it´s just one more shot.

What we´ve seen is that almost all of them are struggling with bad policies, corruption, big and inept states, horrible politicians and no meritocracy-based methods.

And I still believe that - despite the technological evolution that humankind is experimenting - moral sense is still smaller than it should, all over the world, but in underdeveloped countries, it appears more clearly!

Thanks for asking, dear Steven. But, please tell us, what is your opinion?

All the best for you.

AH

Hello Aureilo, I feel it is easy to get pessimistic if we focus on our qualitative gut feelings (especially regarding politics!) when someone asks us "are things going right or wrong?". It is only after the passage of time when we can truly say things were relatively good or bad.

Whenever I seek to separate reality from feelings (sometime the same, sometimes not), I turn to the most objective hard quantitative data I can find. The best data and analysis I have found regarding this exact topic is the "Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: 2017" published by the World Bank. It is an amazing piece of work which should be required reading for anyone like us who seeks a more sustainable and just world.

To answer your question I am heartened after looking at the facts. Of course we need to remind ourselves the SDG's in their present form have only been existance for two years. Some geographic areas have 'lost' but for the most part much more has been 'won', especially in the reduction of extreme poverty, primary education, basic healthcare, etc., etc. I encorage you and everyone else here to read through it (be patient, it will take ahwhile!) and I promise your opinion will be changed and I guess, become more nuanced.

I look forward to hearing what suprises you the most in it.

Warm regards,

-Steve

Dear Steven,

Very interesting answer.

Thanks for sharing your point of view.

Thanks for the Atlas. I´ll take a good look and talk to you again.

All my best wishes.

Hess

Dear Steve,

Your question of how we define succces is very essential. I would claim that much of our current problems are due to that we define success as economic growth, and make that our the ultimate policy goal. I am, however, not claiming that economic growth itself is the problem; the problems related to economic growth seems to stem from the subordination of all other policy goals to it. See: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38m9n5kn

The Sustainable Development Goals could provide us an opportunity to escape from this one sided goal of economic growth, and if so they could really make a change.

thanks for sharing this question. I totally agree with Dr. Silo's view that achieving the SDG goals needs to involve the local vision and all the stake holders. also this will depend on the government's policies because some will just talk about SDG in the media nothing in reality.

Stronger policy efforts are needed for countries to reach the ambitious set of UN goals by 2030.

Source - http://www.sgi-network.org/docs/studies/SDGs_Are-the-rich-countries-ready_2015.pdf

Excellent document Krishnan!

Warm regards,

-Steve

I think so

On the surface, they look brilliant ideas to maximize development but there are a lot of challenges. Power-driven individuals in government are the hypocritic standing blocks to the materialization of these valuable goals. Corruption has been and continues to be the bane behind its less success in developing and under developed countries.

I think there is a lot of talk without real action here. I however, remain positive and hope for the best

Thank you very much for the kind insights, fellow scientists.

All the best for all of you.

Prof. A. Hess

The goals of sustainable development are a great goal for countries, and they want to meet the necessary requirements and infrastructure. In my opinion, every country has to meet its conditions to achieve it, otherwise it is a dream.