By: Charlotte Kirby, VP, Strategic Engagement, Salesforce.org and Nicholas Davis, Managing Director, SWIFT Partners Sarl
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting often serves as a bellwether for the year ahead. In the case of the 2020 Annual Meeting, which also marked the Forum’s 50th Anniversary, the fact that almost every session featured the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) suggests that the world is starting to realize what the ‘decade of delivery’ – the ten years left to deliver the goals – will require from all of us.
The decade ahead is all the more important because, as the latest SDG Progress Report pointed out, the world is falling short on almost every one of the 17 global goals. At current rates of progress, the extreme poverty rate is projected to be 6% in 2030, missing the global target, while biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate and greenhouse gas
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