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This book is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to the SDGs. As the deadline of 2030 is close, and discussions about what should come after the SDGs are imminent, this book is among the first to draw conclusions for the post-2030 era, what to expect and what to demand from a potential successor agenda.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Understanding the origins of the SDGs: Going sustainable morphs from a supposed luxury into a question of survival 3. Setting out on the bumpy road to the SDGs: Going sustainable ushers in a plan for the whole world 4. Implementing the SDGs: Going sustainable and putting into practice 17 goals and 169 targets 5. Learning from and looking beyond the SDGs: Going sustainable is here to stay as a question of survival for humankind
About the author
Adele Orosz has held various senior positions with the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, in particular as Senior Advisor to the State Secretary, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York or the European Extenal Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels. She was a member of the EU negotiation team on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015. The subsequent years, she worked on implementing the SDGs in different roles. She has a long track record in international affairs and development cooperation and has worked extensively on governance, conflict and crisis, in particular in the Sahel and the Middle East, as well as sustainable development. Before working in international relations and development, she was a journalist. She holds a PhD and two Master's degrees in International Relations, Political Science, and Journalism.
