{"id":92482,"date":"2021-09-21T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alj.com\/?post_type=perspective&p=92482"},"modified":"2021-10-12T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:05:10","slug":"creating-a-responsible-route-to-growth","status":"publish","type":"perspective","link":"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/perspective\/creating-a-responsible-route-to-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a responsible route to growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the Jameel Family shares the ambitions of the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals around work, infrastructure and responsible growth.<\/h4>\n

\"UN\"UN\"UN Such are the literally world-changing ambitions of the United Nations<\/a>\u2019 Agenda 2030<\/a> with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> (SDGs), it is sometimes easy to overlook the fact that \u2013 at their heart \u2013 is a very simple idea: helping people.<\/p>\n

Of course, ambitious targets around safeguarding the environment, protecting the planet, improving food and water systems, strengthening equality, transitioning to affordable clean energy, and so on, are vital, complex goals to pursue, in their own right. \u00a0Each has far-reaching consequences for our society if we fail to achieve them. \u00a0Indeed, our society as we know it \u2013 if not our planet \u2013 will struggle to survive if they are not achieved.<\/p>\n

But underlying most of them is a much simpler objective that is sometimes lost in the shadow of the big ideas: helping people to live rewarding, satisfying \u2013 and above all most importantly sustainable<\/em> \u2013 lives.<\/p>\n

This is the idea at the heart of UN SDGs 8, 9 and 12:<\/p>\n