What would it take to meet global commitment? Reflection on few expectations

Abstract

Informed by Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision much broader agenda beyond meeting the needs of the world's poor. The goals aspire to meet the needs of people and the planet without compromising the needs of the future generations, as well as our ecosystem (1). Member states of the UN have approved Sustainable Development Goals that are anonymously argued to be ambitious to be achieved by 2030. SDGs consisting of 17 goals and 169 targets that are applicable to all countries - rich and poor alike taking economic social and environmental challenges of the world into account (2). The core aim of the SDGs is to transform the world we live in with particular prominence given to human beings and the planet (2,3).