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Published: 2016-02-26
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not in a world free of poverty people work in peace and partnership to deliver a shared prosperity harmony with nature people from all over the world came to Rio Brazil in twenty twelve and they declared this future we want they made a plan Petry your plan facilitated by the U. N. to have to sustainable development goals part of a U. N. agenda by the end of
twenty fifth like many others I sent off to New York I'm to make my contribution to the process I was hostess by professor Jeffrey Sachs in Columbia University in the Art Institute I was very privileged I have to work for the U. N. sustainable solutions that work which have to form a mandate from the UN general secretary banking moon to provide a non governmental impulse into
the post twenty fifteen process this simple was mainly academic and scientific these impacts from non governmental and governmental sources were eventually there were summarizing and and collectors I'm there are summarized by the end of twenty twelve but by the end of twenty forty the negotiations for the D. Gauthier ation starters in January twenty fifteen an artist I took part in those negotiations as a member of
the U. N. major group for science and technology this was an amazing experience you hot parted representatives from women's groups from you to children from farmer groups from academics the private sector or how the desk at the table all of it alongside the diplomats from a hundred ninety three nations the negotiations were co chaired by very skillful in the very brilliant ambassador of how violent a
donor who and also the investor cannot Kenya come out the negotiations went on for many months so often I'm I'll be there late at night we would order in pizza and we would fight over the last bar chapters in the vending machine the negotiations when Tommy had paragraphs in words in nice but eventually we have a concern to the relief and joy of everybody we have
what's called that what is now called sustainable you and twenty thirty thing about it's a moral compass the twenty first for the world for the twenty first century it is a policy proof prints that outlines part ways to sustainable lively what's exclusive societies I stamina violence the one thing the one big message I want to say to you is the house people from all walks of
life how to input into this process and to the negotiations this agenda Trulia and agenda ballots all of the people by the people and for the people this is your agenda the court up there at the core of the agenda are seventeen sustainable development goals all all of which have to be achieved by all not all nations by the end of twenty third so how souls
everywhere what have access to basic nutrition to have access to education to help they will not face gender discrimination they will have access to clean water to to sanitation and sustainable energy companies across all countries will provide jobs for all I'm when they invest they will invest in sustainable societies and sustainable environments and in addition to getting a decent rate returning cap cities everywhere would be
safe resilience close up they will provide decent housing and jobs for all our common home planet art with the carrot for we will move to carbon neutrality we will preserve our oceans and we will halt the expansion of desert we will stop land degradation and we will prevent bio diversity so while this makes it look like a global vision and it was negotiator at a global
level but the implementation of this agenda have been given firmly back to the people this is a global vision for local action and that local action means you for I talk about how how we can take simple as but action we have to think about what is the root cause the problems economists religions all religions and scientists during this agenda came together and they identified to
struggles by him humanity how the first struggle is the house seem to be the first trouble Essex struggle is the is the harm that we've fixed on each other we have a struggle with that and our second is the harm in fact in nature so economists just to help you understand how we do this rise they want you to think of a woman he's basically stranded
on a desert island because she's bored he sets up a calm he sets up a household he set up a government not the thought experiment is is that any action she takes as head of state how did the government's or even head of the household she would not knowingly harm herself or the environment around and if you have a family she would want to leave fast
islands you would want she would not want undermined that future generations and she would want to leave that island in a sustainable way for her grandchildren the world we live in people are disconnected we're in companies were and household and governments but we take actions that are driving a world where we're seeing huge social and economic inequalities I'm also seem harm to nature that is actually
driving the quality of non their water to a point that it's not even supporting human life so how does the if if this is the problem how does the U. N. twenty thirty agenda tell us to address this but it's not surprising they want multi stakeholder partnerships nice partnerships between civil society government and the private to address these so the UN has a point tests what
we called statement about but advocates as leader the a messy Sequeira professor Jeffrey Sachs and the like I'm the reality is is that they need seven billion two people on their team if this agendas to work so that's goes both true examples of some actions that make you make to in your home review your energy use think about your food and waste management ask yourself what
my savings and pensions and the banks prayer day investors R. D. investable W. M. principles for responsible investment in order words are they going to harm any other government or society environment in any part of the world ask yourself what does my carbon and water foot prints should I eat less eat less processed foods should I eat less meat companies we are all part of companies
we buy products reader please our shareholders were part of the port they should be part of this agenda how they signed up to the U. N. compact protect human rights around the world how they signed up to you and principles for responsible investment are they undertaking research and and research and development and product development that is socially inclusive and environmentally responsible and if they do have
they signed up to you and technology facilitation MacInnes this this is to share the sustainable about technologies across all nations and people across the world I'm politics these government signed up to this agenda and that's the onus on us as voters or political representatives or anybody who works in the public sector to put the pressure on this that the nation states implemented agenda they need to
be held to account they need to deliver the future we want finally and other walks of life we all take part in theaters and and music and sports we're all in schools and universities they should be part of the snow flake never wants to take responsibility for what the Athlon stuff and in this case the people come together you would be surprised snowball effect you can
create on companies on communities and on governments in conclusion we need to be and we can be the first generation to end poverty in all its forms by the end of twenty thirty do you and sustainable development agenda depends on you is this its greatest strength or weakness I would hope stray close George Bernard Shaw you see things and you say why but I dream things
