Rather than a new treaty, let us adopt at Rio+20 a set of Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, that will inspire a generation to act. 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.
我们需要的不是新条约，而是里约+20峰会采用能激励一代人采取行动的全套可持续发展目标，也叫SDG。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。通过敦促人们站在行动的前沿，我们仍然可以兑现之前签署的三项里约协议。