The following question was asked during the 2017 International Conference
of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration
and Social Cohesion (RISC) on “Integrated and Coherent Sustainable
Development”: “If forced to choose one of the Sustainable Development
Goals [SDGs] to prioritize, which would it be?” Of course, this provocation
elicited numerous responses, and passionate debate as each of the SDGs is
worthy and the policy community supporting sustainable development is
heterogeneous, including stakeholders who are implicated in discussions
on the environment, human rights, public health, food security, water security,
gender equality, and so on. None of the responses forwarded can
be considered “wrong.”
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