The trends are clearly headed in the wrong directions.
Megatrends - Best Available Science - SDG's (4/28 title)
The St Croix Institute is committed to providing our clients with the best available science in (trends, opportunities, solutions, and metrics - new text from 4/30 email, instead of...) understanding the magnitude of the challenges, and thus the opportunities they represent, through integration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). The SDG’s are the best roadmap available for truly ‘thinking globally - acting locally’ regardless of the size or location of your company, community, campus, or organization. The megatrends below are a gross abbreviation of the challenges we face, but a critical foundation to benchmark and gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of all our efforts:
2030 Agenda - Six Megatrends That Could Alter the Course of Sustainable Development (The Guardian.com, 2017)
1. Poverty & Inequalities – Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Nutrition, Child Mortality, Years of Schooling, School Attendance, Cooking Fuel, Sanitation, Drinking Water, Electricity, Housing, & Assets
2. Demography – Population Growth, Aging, Migration, & Urbanization
3. Environmental Degradation & Climate Change – Global Warming, Degradation of Air & Land, Water Scarcity, Deforestation, Marine Pollution, & Loss in Biodiversity
4. Shocks & Crises – Economic & Financial Shocks, Disasters, Conflicts, & Disease Outbreaks
5. Financing for Development – Policy Innovations for Transformative Change
6. Technological Innovation – Health, Education, Environment, & Artificial Intelligence
2. Demography – Population Growth, Aging, Migration, & Urbanization
3. Environmental Degradation & Climate Change – Global Warming, Degradation of Air & Land, Water Scarcity, Deforestation, Marine Pollution, & Loss in Biodiversity
4. Shocks & Crises – Economic & Financial Shocks, Disasters, Conflicts, & Disease Outbreaks
5. Financing for Development – Policy Innovations for Transformative Change
6. Technological Innovation – Health, Education, Environment, & Artificial Intelligence
Resources
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/apr/14/six-megatrends-that-could-alter-the-course-of-sustainable-development
https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/
https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_WPP_2015.pdf
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/publications/wallchart/docs/MigrationWallChart2015.pdf
https://unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/WCR-%20Full-Report-2016.pdf
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full_wcover.pdf
https://www.unisdr.org/2015/docs/climatechange/COP21_WeatherDisastersReport_2015_FINAL.pdf
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B42004CCC77/%28httpInfoFiles%29/2D9B6E61A43A7E87C125804F003285F5/$file/Flagship2016_FullReport.pdf
https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000245825
https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/
https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_WPP_2015.pdf
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/publications/wallchart/docs/MigrationWallChart2015.pdf
https://unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/WCR-%20Full-Report-2016.pdf
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full_wcover.pdf
https://www.unisdr.org/2015/docs/climatechange/COP21_WeatherDisastersReport_2015_FINAL.pdf
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B42004CCC77/%28httpInfoFiles%29/2D9B6E61A43A7E87C125804F003285F5/$file/Flagship2016_FullReport.pdf
https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000245825
