The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't | Michael Green

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🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Are we delivering on the promises of the Sustainable Development Goals, the collection of 17 objectives set by the United Nations in 2015 that aims to improve the lives of billions by 2030? In this data-packed talk, economist Michael Green shares fresh analysis on the progress each country has (or hasn't) made -- and offers new ideas on how we can move forward significantly. "We are living in a world that is tantalizingly close to ensuring that no one need die of hunger or malaria or diarrhea," Green says.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features economist and social progress expert Michael Green, recorded live at We the Future, presented by Ted, the Skoll Foundation and the United Nations Foundation.
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0:49.0	In 2015, the leaders of the world made a big promise.
0:55.0	A promise that over the next 15 years, the lives of billions of people are going to get better with no one left behind.
1:04.0	That promise is the sustainable development goals, the SDGs.
1:09.0	We're now, three years in, a fifth of the way into the journey.
1:13.6	The clock is ticking.
1:15.6	If we off track now, it's going to get harder and harder to hit those goals.
1:20.6	So what I want to do for you today is give you a snapshot on where we are today,
1:25.6	some projections on where we're heading,
1:28.3	and some ideas on things we might need to do differently.
1:34.3	Now, the SDGs are, of course, spectacularly complicated.
1:38.3	I would expect nothing less from the United Nations.
1:41.3	How many goals?
1:42.3	Maybe something tried and tested, like three, seven or ten.
1:47.0	No, let's pick a prime number higher than ten. Seventeen goals. I congratulate those of you
1:54.4	who have memorized them already. For the rest of us, here they are. 17 goals ranging from ending
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