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cover of episode WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?

WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?

2016/10/7
logo of podcast More or Less: Behind the Stats

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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It’s now a year since the UN set its new Sustainable Development Goals to try to make the world a better place. They include 17 goals and a massive 169 targets on subjects like disease, education and governance. But some people like Bjorn Lomborg are saying that there’s just too many and they are too broad, and left like that will never achieve anything. Is he right – and is there a better way to make the world better and stop some countries lagging behind? Wesley Stephenson and Charlotte McDonald find out.