Canadian leads new global Center for Sustainable Development

Author Kylie Adair
The Brookings Institution launched the Center Wednesday, led by Canadian global development expert John McArthur

Why It Matters

With less than a decade before the deadline to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, COVID-19 has set back progress. Poverty is increasing for the first time in decades. Gender inequity is at a high. Overcoming these crises will take extraordinary global and whole-of-society cooperation, which this new Center aims to catalyze.

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