{"id":6273,"date":"2019-10-31T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"climate-change-could-put-development-goals-beyond-reach-un-official-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/31\/climate-change-could-put-development-goals-beyond-reach-un-official-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Could Put Development Goals Beyond Reach, UN Official Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;Laurie Goering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nglobal warming brings wilder weather, more harvest failures and the risk of\ngrowing migration and poverty, &#8220;sustainable development as we think of it\ntoday may be out of reach&#8221;, a top U.N. specialist in climate change losses\nwarned on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nations around the world in 2015 agreed\nto pursue a set of &#8220;sustainable development goals&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/?menu=1300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>SDGs<\/strong><\/a>) aiming to end poverty and hunger, and\nprovide safe drinking water and affordable clean energy to all, among other\ntargets, by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nwith the planet heating up fast, serious threats &#8211; from expanding cities facing\nrising seas and floods to small islands watching their coral reefs die and\nwater supplies turn salty &#8211; mean those &#8220;worthy&#8221; global goals may no\nlonger be the right focus, said Koko Warner of the U.N. climate change\nsecretariat\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191030201106-1lweh\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Laurie Goering As global warming brings wilder weather, more harvest failures and the risk of growing migration and poverty, &#8220;sustainable development as we think of it today may be out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}