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No poverty, no hunger, peace: In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which were supposed to make the world a better place by 2030. Now it is half-time. The results are sobering. In the remaining time, measures must be more targeted and more effective. On the occasion of COP28 in Dubai, the Global Goals Yearbook is focusing on the aspect of impact.

The future is “VUCA” – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. And so is globalization. But what comes next? What should the next trading system be? And what happens to the UN Sustainable Development Goals? The 2022 Global Goals Yearbook examines the question of how globalization can be readjusted and sustainably oriented.

Despite some successes in development and environmental politics, progress is far from sufficient to achieve real sustainable development. We know that the 2020s are the make-or-break years. In the new 2021 edition of the Global Goals Yearbook we discuss barriers and solutions.

The world as we know is rapidly changing before our eyes. The coronavirus pandemic is a profound stress test for humanity. Many of the sustainability successes already achieved could fall victim to the crisis. What options do we have?

What are companies for? The rules for companies have changed. The focus is increasingly on their sustainable, social, and ecological impacts. The strategic orientation toward the so-called corporate purpose is decisive for profitable growth in the future.