The Millennium Development Goals, launched over a decade ago, may have had a lot of experimentation errors, applicability faults and non-ambitious goals, yet remained a highlight for equitable development in an effort to boost the world's sensitivity towards environmental conservation. Did it accomplish? It did , but to some extend. Needless to say, it managed to counter epidemics, poverty and sanitation problems in many regions especially the Sub-Saharan Africa, to much extent it focused on gender empowerment and child mortality. But unfortunately, what essentially lacked in the MDGs was not its content, viewing it liberally, but its implementation what we need to realize is that no matter how many reforms of UN Documents , or bilateral treaties, accords, conventions we sign or ratify, at the end of the day, what counts is making available its practical implementation on a grass-root level- without implementation and continued follow-up, we would live in a utopia of development and green economy.

Sustainable Development Goals, MDGs' younger, yet much more awaited, sister would be born in 2015 we all await its birth and growth and applicability in all sorts of status quo. For me, the SDGs should be a universally streamlined set of targets , ambitious yet realistic, aiming not only at social issues, but also the three pillars of green economy, extending onto the economic and political values of sustainable development. Let us now hope that the transition to Green Economy is catalyzed gradually yet steadily by the Post-2015 SDGs, and most predominantly, that the rights of Future Generations- the Youth- are upheld in the framework.

Till then, lets go GREEN!

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