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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How Much Progress Are We Making Towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
Description: At the United Nations in mid-July officials gathered for an annual checkup on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs, as they are known, are a set of 17 anti-poverty, health and environmental goals that in 2015 the world agreed to achieve by 2030. We are now two and a half years into these goals, and this gathering at the United Nations, which is known as the High Level Political Forum, is a moment in which top officials take stock of both global and domestic progress towards these goals. On the podcast today, we ask the question: ho...