Governments, businesses and civil society together with the United Nations have started to mobilize efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030.
Universal, inclusive and indivisible, the Agenda calls for action by all countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.
In 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In 2016, the Paris Agreement on climate change entered into force, addressing the need to limit the rise of global temperatures.
Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
The SDGs, also known as Global Goals, build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and aim to go further to end all forms of poverty. The new Goals are unique in that they call for action by all countries, poor, rich and middle-income to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.
They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and addresses a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.
While the Sustainable Development Goals are not legally binding, governments are expected to take ownership and establish national frameworks for the achievement of the 17 Goals.
Countries have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review of the progress made in implementing the Goals, which will require quality, accessible and timely data collection.
Regional follow-up and review will be based on national-level analyses and contribute to follow-up and review at the global level.
Sustainable development has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Sustainable development calls for concerted efforts towards building an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future for people and planet.
For sustainable development to be achieved, it is crucial to harmonize three core elements: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. These elements are interconnected and all are crucial for the well-being of individuals and societies.
Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. To this end, there must be promotion of sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic growth.
Creating greater opportunities for all, reducing inequalities, raising basic standards of living, fostering equitable social development and inclusion, and promoting integrated and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems.
Legality of the Sustainable Development Goals:-
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not legally binding.
• Nevertheless, countries are expected to take ownership and establish a national framework for achieving the 17 Goals.
• Implementation and success will rely on countries’ own sustainable development policies, plans and programs.
• Countries have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review, at the national, regional and global levels, with regard to the progress made in implementing the Goals and targets over the next 15 years.
• Actions at the national level to monitor progress will require quality, accessible and timely data collection and regional follow-up and review.
Development Goals and Climate Change: Climate change is already impacting public health, food and water security, migration, peace and security.
Climate change, left unchecked, will roll back the development gains we have made over the last decades and will make further gains impossible.
Investments in sustainable development will help address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resilience. Conversely, action on climate change will drive sustainable development.
Tackling climate change and fostering sustainable development are two mutually reinforcing sides of the same coin; sustainable development cannot be achieved without climate action. Conversely, many of the Sustainable Development Goals are addressing the core drivers of climate change.
There should be love and peace between people because we believe that the God referred to is the one and only God. All religions teach love. Love is a universal concept beyond particular cultures and religions.
Though the interpretation will vary from society to society, love is regarded as a positive quality among all of mankind. This will help strengthen the community.
Coexistence is a must for all the religious people; this is what all the religions preaches, and the leaders should see it as their responsibility to nurse it, grow it and spread it among their followers.
All the basics are that all the three faiths are the same and it should be treated as such so far the three are inviting to the worship of only One God. Freedom of the religion should not be a license to freedom of attack that create enmity and build hatred. It is not without limits.
No freedom is absolute and liberty can never be equated with license. The cherished right of the individuals to free exercise of religion after conflicts with equally valued rights of other individuals and the interests of the society.
People need to learn more about Islam and the differences between the teachings of Islam and the Muslims. They should abstain from generalizing issues against the Muslims, Islam is a religion of peace and unity.
Today’s world is witnessing an increasing interdependence between all countries, and all peoples has had their fate more closely connected, so it has become the development trend of international relationships to establish peace, seek co-operation and promote development.
“Harmonious Co-existence: The Way to Both China and the World’s Harmony”. This was a forum where also displays by the Chinese people’s wish for the world’s peace, development, security and prosperity, and shows the Chinese people’s kindness, openness, dialogues and tolerance for all the people of other countries.
Their expectation to co-build a harmonious world where there are permanent peace and shared prosperity under the condition of mutual benefits co-operation and win-win with all the other countries, and their confidence and determination to firmly grasp the theme of the times, that is, peace and development, and firmly follow the road of peaceful development.
This is very significant for China to make for and embrace the world, and make the world understand a true, developing China.
The Chinese people know well the value of peace and development, so they are peace-loving and yearn for development.
The two world wars last century caused enormous disasters and traumas to the world, and all people in the world, including the Chinese people, are well aware of that only peace can bring about development, and that only development can provide a better guarantee for peace.
China’s peaceful development indicates the peaceful spirit in the Chinese nation’s excellent traditional culture. “Harmony” is a basic concept in Chinese culture and philosophy and has had a history for thousands of years.
The love for peace and the pursuit of peace have been a basic embodiment of the Chinese’s nation culture. In the history of the world, the Chinese people are the earliest to have the idea of “harmony”, which has the most abundant connotations and the most profound influence compared with similar concepts of other nations in the world.
As early as over 2,500 years ago, the Chinese thinker Confucius had put forwards the idea that “harmony is desirable”, which has fostered the broad mind of the Chinese nation.
So, the Chinese nation has always pursued credit and harmony, valued peace and gotten well along with all other countries in the world, and had always advocated and followed the doctrine of “harmony rather than echoes” and the teaching that “Don't do unto others what you don't want others do unto you”.
China’s choice of peaceful development is closely related its traditional culture, and is deeply rooted in the quintessence of the traditional culture, that is, the thought of “harmony”.
China requires a peaceful, stable, harmonious and co-operative international environment for its development; and it is willing to contribute its strength for creating such an environment.
China will join the international community in the same boat, making concerted efforts to cope with challenges and endeavouring to seek the sustainable economic and social development.
It will unswervingly follow the road of peaceful development, unswervingly carry out the reciprocal, win-win opening strategy, and unswervingly seek peaceful, open, co-operative and harmonious development, making its persistent efforts to promote and build a harmonious world for permanent peace and shared prosperity.
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