Halfway to 2030: the urgent need to get back on track
We have published our fourth annual report, assessing the progress of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 underlying targets.
Only two SDGs have improved their scores, two have backtracked, and the remainder have stalled. This year’s report findings confirm that we are not on track, and we still have a huge challenge ahead to meet the 2030 deadline.
Along with a progress overview of each SDG, the report identifies three key topics where investors have the opportunity to drive real change:
- Tackling waste and shifting to a circular economy: Currently only 7% of materials across the globe are reused or recycled, while 93% of resources are wasted, lost or unavailable for reuse. The need to shift away from the ‘take-make-waste’ to a ‘reduce-reuse-recycle’ model is critical.
- Climate change and nature loss: These two interconnecting ‘planetary crises’ threaten human wellbeing, the stability of the global economy and the sustainable functioning of the planet. Evidence is mounting that tackling one without the other risks failing to achieve the necessary outcomes for both.
- Challenging gender inequality: While there has been some progress, we are on track to achieve only 15% of indicators for Gender Equality (SDG5) by 2030. At the current rate of advancement, closing the global gender gap is projected to take a further 131 years.
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