FIVE years ago, world leaders united to attack the global challenge of poverty and inequality. Five years later, some of them closed down their borders and truncated actions to attain what they’ve agreed to achieve by 2030: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
And this is because of a virus that’s way smaller than the eye of a needle. This, even for Jeffrey Sachs, isn’t easy. Sachs, president of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), admitted in a recent webinar that even SDG efforts at the UN have been suspended due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
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