2.1.1 The Global Goals: For Sustainable Development
The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world’s leaders and the people (Ban Ki-moon, 2016).
Figure 1 the Global Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve the 17 SDGs over the next 15 years. The goals address the needs of people in both developed and developing countries, emphasizing that no one should be left behind. Broad and ambitious in scope, the Agenda addresses the three dimensions of sustainable development: social, economic and environmental, as well as important aspects related to peace, justice and effective institutions.
The mobilization of means of implementation, including financial resources, technology development and transfer and capacity-building, as well as the role of partnerships, are also acknowledged as critical.
The 17 SDGs build on the eight MDGs, which specifically sought by 2015: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development.
These actions which have been brought up by Mr Ban Ki-moon shows that he has the aim to develop the people around him for a better life as well as making earth a better place to live. The 17 SDGs has been set up to cover every aspect of human lives based on the major common problems which have been big obstacle for the earth citizen.
2.2 Inspiration
Though inspiration often looks forward to the future, it’s also important for the present; it gives people a reason to fight for, to succeed, and to do their best in everything they do.
Secretary-General plays a vital role in inspiring others to share the same vision and mission with him and dare to take action to face the global challenges. As hunger is one of the matters that has been concerned in the Global Development Goals, the Secretary-General acts by call upon all the global leaders to take action in overcome this problem.
An African proverb teaches that “fine words do not produce food”. That wise counsel is foremost in my mind as leaders gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a pivotal global financing conference to put the world on course to end poverty and protect the planet (The Guardian, 2015)
In December, governments have committed to reach a first-of-its-kind universal and meaningful climate change agreement in Paris. But without resources, commitments will amount to little more than promises on paper.
According to Mr Ban Ki-moon, he often hears people say that business and sustainable development are not compatible however the facts prove otherwise. At the climate summit in New York last September, hundreds of business leaders committed nearly $200bn in sustainable development investments. Around the world, companies that are building sustainability-centred business models are reaping rewards in better performance and higher profit.
With the right investments and policies, poverty can be ended now by the current generation and be the last that avoids the worst effects of climate change.
Mr Ban Ki-moon inspires global leaders that they must now back up fine words with food – and set the table for sustainable development and a life of dignity for all.
As written by an author in a blog named Greenbook, in an article entitled, ‘Why Inspirations Matter’ he recently asked a client to share their existing research to support an upcoming innovation journey. They pulled out a big cardboard box filled with impressive stacks of reports. They had competitive intelligence, audience needs, brand awareness and usage patterns. But even with all this, the client was having trouble identifying a strong starting point for innovation, for developing the “what’s next” in their product offering. They had research, but no direction. They had information, but no inspiration. And innovation needs inspiration.
Inspiration provides a critical kind of illumination. It doesn’t provide answers, but it does reveal the paths that can lead to solutions. Inspiration helps someone examine the challenges with increased clarity and a new awareness of possibilities and these are the things that needed by United Nations in overcoming global challenges.
Inspiration gives leaders a new lens of focus, allowing them to isolate insights that are striking and compelling. It elevates the leaders expectations, and also makes them smarter and more vigorous editor of information, insights and ideas.
As inspiration improves the vision of those around the inspirer, he can now re-organize and reinterpret well-worn paths to capture the attention of people around him.
Inspiration isn’t easy, and it isn’t automatic. But finding ways to become inspired and stay inspired is worth it. Inspiration gives you a new lens of focus, allowing you to isolate insights that are striking and compelling. (Greenbook, 2013)
2.3 Heart of Humanity
2.4 Practical Intelligence, Analytical Intelligence and Creative Intelligence
Practical intelligence is not the same as academic intelligence. Practical intelligence is the ability that individuals use to find the best fit between themselves and the demands of the environment.
Being able to engage, for example, in intelligent and sophisticated debate about the differences between functionalism and constructivism, it is not what the practical conduct of international relations is all about.
But it also means a lot more than being able to read in meetings from the right prompt cards. And it means, in Isaiah Berlin’s terms, being more a fox than a hedgehog: it might have been good enough for an evidently much beloved US President of recent decades to know one big thing rather than many things, but it is not enough for this job, which requires an ability to absorb, retain, and mentally organise a huge amount of information across a very broad front.
It also means an ability to see patterns and shapes in that data flow, and to be able to see opportunities as they arise. The Secretary-General doesn’t necessarily have to generate good ideas, but it is critical that he or she be able to recognize them. And one has to know enough about people and their foibles to have a chance of making the right personnel choices.
Analytical intelligence is the ability to analyze and evaluate ideas, solve problems and make decisions. For instance, being able to look at a situation in life and figure out several ways to go about the issues that situation causes. This is shown by the Secretary-General’s Climate Resilience.
Initiative will support the work of partners, such as the Africa Risk Capacity, to ensure that by the time the new climate agreement enters into force in 2020, over 30 countries are provided with $2 billion in coverage against drought, flood and cyclones, including $500 million in adaptation financing. 150 million Africans will be indirectly insured.
While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase—including rising sea level and more extreme weather events—even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather-related events.
According to Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, he urge the UN system to find the initiative because there are a lot of people who did not contribute to the climate change, but they stand to lose their homes, their jobs, and even their lives because of the growing impacts of climate change.
The Secretary-General’s Climate Resilience Initiative shows a new era in the way the United Nations and its agencies think about the global future, said Dr. Judith Rodin, author of The Resilience Dividend and president of The Rockefeller Foundation, which has made pioneering investments of more than a half-billion dollars to build resilience globally over the past decade. In addition, Dr Judith Rodin also said that, crisis is the new normal, and the challenging world hassles that the global leaders try to find solutions that unravel manifold problems at once and by the same time firming up the fabric of their communities, economies, and lives.