Wallington based charity BioRegional has given a guarded welcome to the outcome of negotiations on a new set of global goals for sustainable development. But there is still much work to do in order to produce a compelling set of goals which will carry as much weight as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Bioregionalis an entrepreneurial charity which establishes sustainable businesses and works with partners around the world to demonstrate that a sustainable future can be easy, attractive and affordable. We call our approach One Planet LivingBioRegional The Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 had mandated an Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to draft recommendations for a set of global goals to follow on from the MDGs. These SDGs should be genuinely “action-oriented, concise, easy to communicate, limited in number, aspirational, global in nature and universally applicable”.
Bioregionalis an entrepreneurial charity which establishes sustainable businesses and works with partners around the world to demonstrate that a sustainable future can be easy, attractive and affordable. We call our approach One Planet LivingBioRegional The Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 had mandated an Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to draft recommendations for a set of global goals to follow on from the MDGs. These SDGs should be genuinely “action-oriented, concise, easy to communicate, limited in number, aspirational, global in nature and universally applicable”.