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With their roots in the infamous Club of Rome report, The Limits to Growth (Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., & Behrens III, W. W, The Limits to Growth; A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind, Universe Books, New Tork, 1972), the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are probably the most ambitious effort of the international community to steer global change.
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