Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Promise to Reality

Abstract

About the Conference 'Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: From Promise to Reality'At the United Nations headquarters in New York, where the organisation was celebrating its 70th anniversary, Heads of State and High Representatives came to an agreement on 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 corresponding goals. This agenda is integrated and indivisible, balancing the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental, and is expected to be completed by 2030. These SDGs seek to establish a future in which human habitats are secure, resilient, and sustainable, and in which everyone has access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy.The UN has made a historic decision on behalf of the global citizens to establish a comprehensive, far-reaching, and people-centred set of universal and transformative goals and targets. It is a collective effort on the path towards sustainable development in the pursuit of global development and of a "win-win" cooperation to bring enormous benefits to one and all globally. These SDGs aim to ensure that every nation shall freely exercise full permanent sovereignty over all its wealth, natural resources, and economic activity. The UN urges the whole world to implement them for the contemporary and prospective generations as well.The 5th International Conference: "Impact of Current Events on the Future of Business" (5th ICEFB, 2023) is a pertinent platform for academicians/practitioners, researchers, and students to share and deliberate potential paradigms management as a discipline can be reimagined to contribute towards achieving a sustainable solution. The pandemic, global semiconductor shortages, Russia-Ukraine conflict, oil, and other commodity crises have radically transformed the demand for products and services while exposing grounds of vulnerability and fragility in global supply chains. These events have challenged companies, business models and forced them to reconfigure their business archetypes and stratagem. The resilient companies have demonstrated innovative levels of visibility, agility, productivity, and end-customer connectivity while preserving their profitability. Discerning the worldwide impact of such disruptions (including climate crisis), the new normal is a propitious harbinger that propels organizations towards providing sustainable solutions with long-term fruitions to society, the environment, and the economy. Such solutions should be proposed with the perspective on managing the 5P's (People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership) in the VUCA world.