Post 2030
~SDGs and beyond~
While the international community welcomed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), recent years have seen the emergence of two troubling trends. One is that achieving the goals by 2030 is becoming increasingly challenging. The other is that an integrated and inclusive approach may not be fully incorporated into the plans. IGES aims to contribute to discussions over a post-2030 set of SDGs with timely inputs.
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