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ommon ground: Framing the next development agenda as a form of global risk management, rather than a system of aid, to deal with the challenges the world faces, might prove unifying. Photo: Supplied
GERMAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

The world needs a new bargain

The real problem with the UN Sustainable Development Goals is not that they lack ambition. It is that they lack credibility

  • Daryl Swanepoel
6 min read
World view: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) stands with Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank (left), on a balcony of the town hall before a session of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference on 7 October in Hamburg, Germany. Photo: Marcus Brandt/Getty Images
ANALYSIS

Hard truths in Hamburg hit home

Among the truths is that most of the 17 sustainable development goals adopted by UN member states are doomed to fail

  • Luke Feltham
7 min read