The time for trade-offs is over – pitting people against the planet is dangerous and not how we will thrive, argue Francine Pickup and Astrid Schomaker.
Francine Pickup is Deputy Director at the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UN Development Programme (UNDP); Astrid Schomaker, is Director for Green Diplomacy and Multilateralism at the Directorate General for Environment, European Commission.
Too often we hear that protecting nature and tackling the triple planetary crisis are obstacles to igniting growth, creating jobs and improving incomes. This thinking belongs to the past. Countries around the world are showing us that broad-based prosperity can be delivered during the very transition to environmentally sustainable economies. Working on one helps achieve the other.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit this week marks the mid-point of the 2030 Agenda, at a…
