New Realities for Global Health: People’s Wellbeing and Planetary Health

Abstract

Last year under the auspices of the UN, world leaders agreed to a new form of cooperation on a planetary scale - Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - and endorsed a holistic framework for achieving sustainable development (17 Sustainable Development Goals: SDGs) with a pledge to leave no one behind in less than two decades. The challenge of implementation of the 17 SDGs which are interrelated and interdependent and which affect all life dimensions on this planet will require comprehensive undertakings and coordinated local, national, multilateral, and global inclusive solutions. It will also require policy makers of today to assess all their actions against their effects on the world of tomorrow