Sustainable Visions
The Action Agenda for Sustainable Development prepared by the Leadership Council of SDSN under the inspiring leadership of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, its Director, proposes ten sustainable development goals which, when pursued in an integrated way, with each contributing to all three dimensions of sustainable development and good governance simultaneously, promise to make global sustainable development attainable. In the report, the Leadership Council further identifies three targets geared to each goal, with each target so defined as to be susceptible to practical, science-based solutions. For this reason, I believe that this report by the SDSN Leadership Council marks an important breakthrough in the long-stalemated discussion of sustainable development by showing the pathways to sustainable development and thus debunking the widely-held defeatist notion that sustainable development is no more than a declaration of moral values and defies practical solutions. It is now for the SDSN to look for the solutions and pathways. How exciting!