America Is Falling Behind, But California Is Doing Just Fine
The study applies recently developed UN global well-being goals to U.S. metropolitan areas. Conducted by the UN-affiliated Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the research is a methodical attempt to bring an arcane multilateral initiative into a perpetually resistant American civic discourse.
More than 190 UN member states, including the U.S., unanimously adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in September 2015 with the hope of achieving them by 2030. The program is a testament to humanitarian ambition: It’s made up of 17 general goals that branch out into 169 “targets,” each of which will have two “indicators” they’re measured by.
