Jeffrey D. Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, an SDG Advocate for the United Nations and one of the most influential economists in the world and strongly speaks on the persisting challenges and what it needs for climate safety, and end to poverty, the two globally agreed upon major goals to become a reality; and why should it be taken seriously.
Jeffrey pinpoints that after all the terrible dislocations of Covid 19 and the upheavals that accompanied the pandemic, we need to get on track to the sustainable prosperous world that we are aiming to build and to do that we need leadership by all parts of society, which is a mix of the business community, investors, Government, civil society and academia.
On the climate agenda, and India’s role, he says that India has incredibly high stakes in a safe climate and is without question one of the parts of the world’s most endangered by global change. We insist that India’s voice needs to be heard loud and clear saying to the whole world stop the madness because we are already at a point of maximum danger
It is time for the world to shift from a dangerous business-as-usual path to one of true sustainable development. He believes that progress is not just about equitable economic growth, but to meet the needs of the most vulnerable groups of society and sustainable use of the planet’s natural resources.
Jeffrey reasons that the year 2020 began with world leaders calling for the Decade for Action on achieving the 17 SDGs initiated by the UN Agenda 2030. The Action called for advancing sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest adversities that extends from poverty, gender disparity, to climate change, and finance gap.
Jeffrey agrees that it is a huge challenge, but countries have to rethink that progress is not just about equitable economic growth, but real-world concerns and to meet the needs of the most vulnerable groups of society; and sustainable use of the planet’s natural resources.