05/01/2023
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as we all know, was a strategic framework developed to create pathways for a better future for all.
Embedded on it are practicable measures our leaders can employ to realize the ambitions of equity, justice, peace and progress in a world ravaged by different kind of crises both man-made and natural.
A greater concern for world leaders during the development stage of SDGs framework can be summed up to border on these three key areas:
- Re-imagining a world where the threats and challenges of rapidly changing climatic conditions are adequately addressed;
- Overhauling our governance system with the impetus of a 'New Order' for the greater benefit of the Next Generation and;
- Taking consensus and solidarity to a whole new level where global progress can be collectively achieved whilst ultimately, beating humankind's odds of ravaging inequalities.
However, in 2019, a global health pandemic (COVID-19), brought our world into a tailspin which inadvertently shook the foundations of progress made post-2008 economic meltdown and the SDGs - the levers on which preparing the Next Generation was anchored.
The crises in Europe is bringing a whole new twist, which may back-wheel the kinetic alternatives that has been built in sustaining growth.
As I critically look at these scenarios, I'm constantly reminded of the need to mobilize future-oriented young people and thought leaders alike, through the Next Generation Summit platform.
You'll all agree with me that a desirable future can only be built when the voice of thought and reason is harnessed and, amplified with the view to create agenda(s) for accelerating progress.
Against this backdrop, I'll be sharing concrete ways we can all lend our voices in the coming days.
Please, keep a tab on this page.
Thank you!
