Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals

<p>In September 2015, leaders from around the world gathered in New York at the United Nations General Assembly and committed to an ambitious global agenda, setting forth seventeen “Sustainable Development Goals”, or SDGs, to be achieved by 2030. These goals, if accomplished, would mark incredible feats of human history. Unfortunately, the most recent report from the UN Economic and Social Council shows that the world is not on track to meet these targets by the 2030 deadline. This episode of the Oxford Policy Pod will dive into the progress and delays on the SDGs, and understand what it will take to reach these goals. We also explore how policymakers are using these voluntary international commitments to guide and prioritize work in practice, specifically in the context of developing urban areas.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.sdglab.ch/en-team/edward-mishaud" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Edward Mishaud</em></a>, is a Senior Advisor and current acting Director with the <a href="https://www.sdglab.ch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SDG Lab</a> at UN Geneva. He has over 15 years of expertise across policy, donor relations, governance, advocacy, and communications, and has worked with several UN and other international organizations, such as the UN Development Programme, the World Health Organization, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and the Green Climate Fund.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/research/research-projects/making-africa-urban/people/sylvia-croese" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Dr. Sylvia Croese</em></a> is an urban sociologist who is a Senior Researcher at the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning at the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of the Witwatersrand and Research Associate with the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has conducted extensive research on urban planning, politics and governance through the lens of housing, land, urban inf