BRUSSELS and JEDDAH: A short answer to this question is yes, but it's obvious and predictable failure was visible for some time. This debate started before 2015, the year in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted as successors to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed in 2000. The 8 MDGs were expanded to 17 massive goals and 169 targets.

Using projections from international organizations such as the World Bank, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Health Organization, the British Overseas Development Institute (ODI) already quantified in 2015 how much the world would need to accelerate current trends to achieve the SDGs by 2030.

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