The SDGs at half-time: Should we abandon them?

It has been seven and a half years since the UN's Sustainable Development Goals were launched to great fanfare in 2015. A deadline of the end of 2030 was set for achieving all 17 goals. As the SDGs reach half-time, Robeco's SDG Strategist Jan Anton van Zanten takes stock of how far we have come, and what we still need to do. The SDGs are facing criticism The SDGs have been criticized from the start, and for a multitude of reasons. When they were being created, some people thought there were too many SDGs, and others that there were too few. Some criticized the aspirational spirit of th...