Today our world is faced with immense challenges on sustainability such as natural resources depletion, climate change, land degradation, fresh water scarcity and loss of biodiversity. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are there to achieve sustainable development in 3 areas; Economic, Social and the Environment in order to address the unfinished business started by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In September 2015, 193 member States of the United Nations met in New York to adopt 17 new SDGs with 169 associated targets. Sustainable Development Goals set out quantitative objectives and priorities across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, all to be achieved by the year 2030. The SDGs call for worldwide action among:
- Governments
- Business
- Civil society
With an aim of ending poverty and creating a life of dignity and opportunities for all.
Basic Structure of Impact Opportunity.
- What is the problem you want to solve?
- How big is the problem?
- Why does the problem exist?
- How do you know that this is a problem?
Start-ups, entrepreneurs and small-medium-enterprises, time is not on our side, let us harness these GOLDEN EGGs and end poverty in our countries. According to Peter Drucker, “Behind every problem there are hidden opportunities”. In light to a report by the Business and Sustainable Development Commission (2017), by 2030 a total of US $12 trillion of revenue and business savings could be generated by SDGs across four main sectors including: food and agriculture, energy, health and wellbeing, and sustainable cities.
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