With the start of the brand new 12 months, it was time to sit down, reflect on my 2015 resolutions, and make plans for the yr ahead. For the final several years, I’ve vowed to get wholesome, learn extra, volunteer in my group, and learn a new language.

Last weekend, member states of the United Nations gathered in New York put the ending touches on the Sustainable Development Targets. In doing so, they set the course for growth efforts, including priorities, targets and funding, for the following 15 years. The objectives include noble aspirations to protect the world’s oceans, scale back pollution, provide clean water and lift the world’s poor from poverty through sustainable livelihoods. However whilst they adopted the SDGs, governments sidelined one of many UN’s strongest instruments: the idea that a protected and healthy environment is a human right.

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