Developing Sustainability is the Goal
By James Lochhead
October 2017 FEATURE
The UN’s SDGs are important signposts for the future of mankind.On September 25, 2015, member states of the UN adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a more equitable and sustainable world, providing a roadmap for the transformation of global and local communities. They build on and extend the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which governments around the world had pursued with varying degrees of success from 2000 to 2015.The goals are exciting, but the timeline is daunting. We have...
James Lochhead
has been involved with a wide variety of initiatives in Penang since 1980. These include initiatives related to local democracy, gender equality, arts and creativity, child protection, human trafficking, and work with migrant and refugee communities. He was one of the original team for the Gender Responsive Budgeting project, started under Penang Women's Development Corporation in 2011.
