The Thought Show - Sustainable Development Goals – Are there Just too Many?
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It is now a year since the UN set its new Sustainable Development Goals to try to make the world a better place. They include 17 goals and no fewer than 169 targets on subjects like disease, education and governance. But some people, such as Bjorn Lomborg, say that they are too broad and too numerous to achieve anything, if left as they are.
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Published on Thursday, 13th October 2016.
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