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welcome !!
So, by now you'd have noticed that goal 16 supposedly'd help to promote peace, eh? I don't believe the world's doing a good job at that. To quote this page:
"Multiple global crises continue to put the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 'in peril', the UN says."
"Its 2023 update report shows a significant reversal of progress in key areas such as child vaccination rates and income inequality between countries." Governments aren't very good when it comes to sustainability or prosperity, or equality, or balance sheets, or social assistance, or renovating abandoned buildings that otherwise would be perfectly usable, or being honest, etc... but I'm not here to impose my ideologies on you... :)
so?...
There has been a great decline in development in the 8 years since its launch. Today's world shows positive progress, although it's as if for every 3 steps towards a better future, we take 10 backwards; with growing racial tensions, conflicts, and the degradation of the planet, we're going in circles.
We all know what's going down happening between Israel and Palestine. It's genocide. The Palestinians have no defense. All they can do is hide and pray for the best. But the best never comes.
The conflict didn't start this year. Nor last year. Nor the ones before that.It's lasted for 75 years. The opression's been a thing for so long its become the status quo to not only the opressed, but to the rest of the world too. Do you know when the UN formed? In 1945.They've been a thing for this long and have never done anything. Sure, they sign petitions, but what's the point of half the world voting for a cease-fire if the country that started it in the first place votes against? Aren they kids whose parents said no to Disneyland? Dude...
"Conflict-related civilian deaths rose by 50% in 2022, largely due to the war in Ukraine. At the end of the year, a record 108.4 million people had been forcibly displaced worldwide – an increase of 19 million compared with the end of 2021. Global homicides are at a 20-year high, in part due to the economic impacts of the pandemic and socio-political disruption, the UN says. Civilian deaths have risen for the first time since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, jumping by 53% between 2021 and 2022. Ending armed conflicts, strengthening institutions and enacting human rights legislation are all necessary preconditions for sustainable development."The instability of progress led the General Assembly to adopt a declaration to "accelerate progress on the SDGs", which the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, described as "a factor for change" in a speech to the assembly. The declaration reaffirms the commitment of member states to achieve the goals by 2030. But making progress towards these goals is not as simple as committing to getting back on track. Even Nasha Naik, lead researcher on corporate social responsibility, admits that "Hardly any progress has been made".
in conclusion ...
The goverment's not perfect. The UN isn't perfect. No one is, but maybe one day we'll actually reach those goals...
There's still a chance of achieving some of the goals by 2030, but bold action and reforms will be needed, according to researchers. A new report published in the journal Science states that responsibility for achieving the goals is unequal, with higher-income countries choosing the goals that are most feasible for them, rather than focusing on goals that would require more aggressive action and investment, such as clean energy. In other words, rich countries are not doing enough to achieve the most difficult environmental goals, while the countries of the Global South are literally drowning and may soon not even have a country to implement the goals. Tuvalu's finance minister, Seve Paeniu, summed up this fear during a speech in New York in 2023.
(Paraphrased) "The existential threat that climate change poses to Tuvalu jeopardizes the successful implementation of the SDGs," he said. "The key message here is that Tuvalu's habitable land is already succumbing to rising sea levels, and even the lowest and most optimistic projections of sea level rise by 2100 will leave most of Tuvalu unsustainable for human habitation."
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