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What is different compared to the past: So far the previously defined Millennium Development Goals – MDG focused only on fighting hunger and extreme poverty in the developing countries. Now, economic, social, ecological and also political targets are to be formulated additionally, reflecting a chance for a good life for all people living within the boundaries of our planet. Many of the challenges are not confined to individual countries and can only be tackled efficiently by a global coordination. This is above all the climate change which is endangering the basics of life for mankind. An example of a different magnitude is the import of goods that come with a “backpack“ of environmental problems and social abuses in their countries of origin. Today non-sustainable patterns of production and consumption are quite often part of global cause-and-effect chains.Also these issues are to be included in the new global targets for sustainable development, which may form a covenant of global responsibility: Responsibility with regard to people in rich as well as in poor countries, and responsibility with regard to the ecosystem Earth. Sustainable development is a “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs“, as stated in 1987 already in the report by the so-called Brundtland commission. More than ever, climate change, refugee catastrophes and social tensions illustrate today that growth at the expense of others and at the expense of the environment is not a long-term option. All societies therefore are faced with the challenge to realign their paths of development and the patterns of their economies. “Germany will have to find new solutions for its own future development, and in this sense will also be a developing country” is the argument brought forward by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Germany) in a statement of principles. As network of Can the world get together and think diferently? It remains to be seen in September 2015, when the Heads of States and Governments come together at the United Nations in New York to decide on globally valid Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Focus diferently diferently Think Actdiferently