The world has just six years until the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 objectives adopted by the United Nations in 2015.
Each of the U.N.’s 193 member states agreed to work toward achieving the SDGs — but today, less than a fifth of the SDG targets are on track for 2030, while another fifth of those goals have gone backward, according to this year’s official U.N. report to monitor progress on the SDGs.
“Today, we should be celebrating,” said Inger Ashing, the chief executive officer of Save the Children International, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last week. “But we’re not in a position where we can celebrate, because so many things are going in the wrong direction.”