Global Efforts To Tackle Poverty And Climate Change

By: Dr. Hollie Russon-Gilman, Beeck Center Fellow Original post appeared on Vox.com on September 21, 2015. At the end of this week, the U.N General Assembly will vote on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the next decades. The SDGs will replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of 2015. The SDGs are a set of goals and targets on international development that range from eradicating poverty, building sustainable cities, and combating climate change. The SDGs will attempt to change international indicators on typically discussed policies like poverty and climate change, but they will also have an unprecedented new goal: to create "responsive, inclusive,...