Progress on the UN SDGs

You can’t work in impact without talking about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For impact investors, the SDGs are our de-facto standard ontology to describe our interests.

What isn’t often discussed is the progress of these goals toward the 2030 deadline the UN set. At this point, seven years away, that deadline, unfortunately, seems ridiculously short. It feels like most of these goals are decades away from being solved.

So what is the actual progress so far? I found a video on gapminder.org graphing the progress.

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