Clock has started ticking: tick-tok..tick-tok

2020 marks the beginning of the decade that would end by making or breaking the global resolve on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Global goals are to be achieved by 2030.

“I must say that clock for these global goals has started ticking. Sound of that tik-tok is rhythmic. For me, however, it is deafening. It is like the siren of the ambulance carrying the patient to hospital”, says Dr Rajendra Shende, expert speaker at the conference planned on 4th June 2020 on ‘SDGs-COVID19: Universities can be game changers’.

United Nations Summit of World Leaders in September 2019 was titled “Gearing up for a Decade of Action and Delivery for Sustainable Development”. United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres stated recently, “We are in a world

in which global challenges are more and more integrated, and our responses are more and more fragmented”.

Four years of implementation of SDGs ended on 31st Dec 2019. UNSG’s remarks sums up the status of SDGs.

The latest 2019 UN report on the global progress of SDGs concludes that a much deeper, faster and more ambitious response is needed. The world must unleash the social and economic transformation to achieve our 2030 goals.

Enters the virtual asteroid and strikes Earth. We are 5 months down the lane of that massive strike of COVID19. Our march towards SDGs is facing massive precipice .

What we do now? With just about 10 years to implement SDGs, do we abandon them midway? Would SDGs remain the distant dream?

Listen to Dr Rajendra Shende, IIT alumnus, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre and former Director of UNEP along with Dr Mangesh Karad , Eminent Educationist and Executive President of MIT-ADT University to get possible pathways and actions to come out of this conundrum

Date: 4th June 2020

Time: 11.30 AM to 12.30 AM.

Link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdemtrzgqHNC5H6gqhMBSjFr0c1HUC00O?fbclid=IwAR3MrqNYRivrNpZNXHOImobQPxdmNMFSwHB-UEcmaTVYtO7N0aWq6pnRoFM