WASHINGTON (AN) _ Against a backdrop of unending wars, rising nationalism, unchecked climate change and transactional politics, governments are meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York to review the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.
As the leaders gather for a week of discussion and debate, the question is not whether the global community will achieve all, or even most, of the 17 goals by the end of this decade — it’s clear that it will not. What’s at stake is the future of multilateralism and whether the nations of the world can muster the political will to cooperate on the scale that the SDGs require.
