In the midst of the global turmoil around the economy, politics and powerplays, it’s almost easy to forget the optimism with which countries around the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015, under the banner of the United Nations.
When 193 nations met in New York that September, they agreed on perhaps the most ambitious global agreement towards advancing humankind, SDGs so bold that they hoped to secure “peace and prosperity for people and the planet” in the decade and a half to 2030.
