From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

By 2015, most countries will have made meaningful progress towards most of the goals. [...]for more than a decade, the MDGs have remained a focus of global policy debates and national policy planning. Rather than relying on so-called aid voluntarism, in which countries announce their individual aid...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 379; no. 9832; pp. 2206 - 2211
Main Author Sachs, Jeffrey D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 09.06.2012
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Carbon dioxide
Conservation of Natural Resources
Developing Countries
Earth
Emission standards
Global Health
Goals
Greenhouse gases
Health Priorities
Healthy People Programs
Human Rights
Humans
Internal Medicine
International Cooperation
LDCs
Population Growth
Poverty
Problem solving
Society
Sustainable development
Technological change
United Nations
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Summary:By 2015, most countries will have made meaningful progress towards most of the goals. [...]for more than a decade, the MDGs have remained a focus of global policy debates and national policy planning. Rather than relying on so-called aid voluntarism, in which countries announce their individual aid promises (and then fail to honour them in most cases), countries should agree to transparent and specific standards of financing, such as quotas and assessments (eg, International Monetary Fund quotas and UN dues) related to national incomes, and levies on national greenhouse gas emissions (eg, a few dollars per ton of carbon dioxide emitted per year).
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60685-0