Guest blog: Co-ops Making Difference: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Guest blog: Ed Mayo is secretary general of Co-operatives UK , the national apex association for co-operative and mutual enterprise in the United Kingdom, and vice president of Cooperatives Europe , the European region of the International Co-operative Alliance. “What You Can Do, or Dream You Can, Begin It” John Anster, after Goethe There is a vision for the world, set down by the United Nations (UN) in the form of a series of targets for the period running up to 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by UN member states in September 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offer a powerful shared vision of development. They recognise the complexity of the challenge they represent. They are universal and they are integrated. Above all, taken together, they represent a fundamental shift from a model of development oriented around economic growth to one that aims to be both an environmentally sustainable and a socially ...