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Title: The State of the Sustainable Development Goals in the United States
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Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: President Biden entered office in January 2021 with the promise to end the COVID-19 pandemic and facilitate an economic transformation to “build a better America.” But what, exactly, does “better” mean? Answering that question in specific ways means establishing explicit benchmarks for progress, analyzing current trends, and identifying their impact and on whom. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help with the answer. These 17 comprehensive, interconnected goals offer a set of metrics and evidence to better understand where the U.S. is on a set of critical economic, social, and environmental dimensions, and how far it needs to go in its quest to build a better America. The U.S. itself played a central role in shaping these benchmarks, which all countries adopted in 2015. Importantly, in a first, the goals recognized that “sustainable development” is a continuum of progress that no country has fully attained, making the goals applicable to all countries, regardless of income level. Grounded in human rights, fairness, opportunity, and justice, the goals reflect American values and anticipate the governing vision and key priorities articulated by the Biden administration. Measuring its ambitions against the targets and metrics of the SDGs provides an empirical, transparent, and accountable way to define what it means to build a better America and demonstrate progress. A commitment to the SDGs offers the administration an opportunity to reinforce and accelerate its domestic agenda while reestablishing U.S. global leadership with credibility and confidence, advancing shared global aspirations at home and abroad.
Url: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_Brookings_State-of-SDGs-in-the-US.pdf
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Authors: Pipa, Tony; Rasmussen, Krista; Pendrak, Kait
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Topics: Natural Resource Management
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