正如千年发展目标让我们认识到极端贫困并促成了前所未有的抗击艾滋病、结核和疟疾的全球行动，SDG可以让今天的年轻人清醒地认识到气候变化、生物多样性丧失以及荒漠化灾害。
Just as the Millennium Development Goals opened our eyes to extreme poverty and promoted unprecedented global action to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, the SDGs can open the eyes of today’s youth to climate change, biodiversity loss, and the disasters of desertification.