

The volume reinforces this analysis with expert recommendations on how to support implementation efforts and achieve the SDGs through international and national strategies and the involvement of both the public and private sectors. This publication thus provides a fresh look at implementation of the SDGs highlighting impactful and creative actions that go beyond the business-as-usual development efforts. It contains a special chapter on COVID-19 and the SDGs, while many thematic chapters on different SDGs also assess how COVID-19 adversely affects implementation, and what measures could be taken to minimize the adverse effects. The book is one of the first to assess how the implementation is impeded by the onset of COVID-19. Five years after the launch of the 2030 Agenda, this book takes stock of how far the world has come and how we can position ourselves to achieve the global targets. The effort to implement the SDGs, however, demands a sense of urgency in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, emerging conflicts, and growing inequality, among a number of other socio-economic problems. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is designed to catalyze action in critical areas of importance to humanity and the planet. Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals.

Some units also have shields able to absorb the strength of an incoming attack partly or entirely.This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many units in WorldShift have power which the player can spend to perform special actions such as spells, healing, or stronger attacks. The game is centered on unique cooperative multiplayer gameplay. There is a three-tiered unit system, with outstanding leader units, strong officer units and then more common basic units. The players will gather items as they fight their opponents and as rewards for completing missions. In WorldShift, there are no technology trees featuring hundreds of upgrades instead, WorldShift allows the players to discover and acquire a vast number of items and powerful relics that they can use to freely change their gameplay and preferred tactics and to attack their enemies. The rest of the Earth is populated by what is known to be the Tribes, successors of the early humans that were affected by the Plague, and the Cult, a mysterious alien race with unknown origins.

The human race has developed a new culture and is now living in five shielded mega-cities, struggling to survive from day to day. The remains of the mysterious object, known as Shard Zero, are still spreading its Plague and reshaping the Earth. WorldShift is set thousands of years after those events, when the human civilization is no more than just a fading myth. In the 21st century, a mysterious object lands on Earth ending all known civilization.
