Comments to: Radical Goals for Sustainable Development

Radical Goals for Sustainable Development

This is an excellent article from HBF. This is a "must" read for all greens and sustainable development advocates in the Philippines as we buckle down to work for the challenges of 2015 and the "Aksyon 2015" campaign. It gives a good geo political context; with I think a very honest retrospection of the EU's own challenges and liabilities such as perverse subsidies, of the current global socio-economic and ecological crises. The context provided put into perspective the global climate negotiations this year, the year of the soils and the global plastic regulation campaigns. It also highlights the potentials and imperatives for effectively moving forward from the minimalist MDGs to what i would hopefully call the more viable means to realize the spirit of Rio92 and the original agenda21; the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). Needless to say, the author also gave an honest  assessment of the current limits within an emerging SDG in the ongoing global negotiation. This is really not surprising since the current global governance platform where these discussions are taking place operate within the very system of uncheck economic growth as if ecological limits are unreal and the neo liberal system that has guided the current global trade regimes that in the first place was the very same system that created the problem and hindered the realization of agenda 21 thirty years hence.