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041: ENCORE PRESENTATION: Why the Sustainable Development Goals Really Are a Very Big Bid Deal

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We hear a lot about the Sustainable Development Goals, or “SDGs” these days, with major pension funds like Calvert aligning their portfolios with them, and up to $12 trillion in finance, by one estimate, ready to do the same the same. But what are they?

That’s a question I tried answering almost three years ago — way back in 2016. It was right after world leaders had reached the Paris Climate Agreement, and right before my fellow countrymen shot the world in the butt by electing Donald Trump as President of the United States.

This encore presentation looks at the Sustainable Development Goals — the SDGs — which are more important now than ever — and I think today’s show, even though it’s almost three years old, is more relevant than ever, too. 

That’s because it looks at the SDGs in the context of the global institutions that emerged from the ashes of World War II, and that Donald Trump, Vladmir Putin, and the Koch Brothers, among a whole bunch of other miscreants, are trying to destroy. We’re a big, diverse planet, and we’ve pushed our living ecosystems to the brink. We need to work globally, together, if we’re to fix this mess, and today we look at how we’ve done that in the past, and how still can in the future.

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