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Do the SDGs indeed represent a “supremely ambitious and transformational vision”? In this essay, I provide an assessment of the SDGs by posing and answering five questions relating to their scope, depth, and ambition.

The inclusion of a dedicated goal on urban sustainability (SDG-11) is also laudable, given the considerable impact of the development of cities on poverty reduction and climate change, and the significant contribution that urban governments are likely to make in achieving the SDGs.

But while there were only eight MDGs, the SDGs are 17 in number, with 169 associated targets, and 304 proposed indicators. This dramatic jump in goals and targets from the MDGs to SDGs has provoked criticism, even ridicule. “Play sports! Be in harmony with nature! End all preventable deaths!

I start, however, with a brief note on the process through which the SDGs were created and the conceptual shift, from ‘human development’ to ‘sustainable development,’ that they represent. The Journey to Agenda 2030 – From ‘human development’ to ‘sustainable development’