WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
08:58•2016-10-07
Om avsnittet
It’s now a year since the UN set its new Sustainable Development Goals to try to make the world a better place. They include 17 goals and a massive 169 targets on subjects like disease, education and governance. But some people like Bjorn Lomborg are saying that there’s just too many and they are too broad, and left like that will never achieve anything. Is he right – and is there a better way to make the world better and stop some countries lagging behind? Wesley Stephenson and Charlotte McDonald find out.
Senaste avsnitten
More or Less: Behind the Stats
How do you count millionaires?
2024-09-18 • 28min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
2024-09-14 • 8min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
2024-09-11 • 27min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
2024-09-07 • 8min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
2024-09-04 • 28min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
2024-08-31 • 9min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
2024-08-24 • 8min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Are companies making more money from their customers?
2024-08-17 • 8min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Is planet Earth getting greener?
2024-08-10 • 10min
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Does a language die every two weeks?
2024-08-03 • 9min