UN officials repeatedly emphasize that managing the effects of climate change will have a direct impact on achieving the new universal development aspirations of Agenda 2030, or the Sustainable Development Goals, which went into effect in January for 15 years.
This provides a unique entry point for understanding the implications of the Lagos urban development aspirations on the livelihoods of the urban poor.
It matches out short term, mid term and long term development aspirations.
As a result, they will be better able to control their own destinies and participate more meaningfully in development – an aspiration for the adolescent girls leaving the centre and development practitioners alike, and which is firmly rooted in the notion of empowerment.
Council leader Jim McMahon said the development showed "our aspirations for our future".
While specialties such as the surgery group have traditionally been seen as highly desirable, it seems that the importance of work-life balance to tomorrow's doctors is now influencing the development of career aspirations for many [but not all] medical students.
Ironically, the power crisis in the Philippines, which promises to retard the country's growth trajectory and its aspirations for industrial development, is not a product of excessive state intervention and public mismanagement.
At the G8 meeting in July, Barack Obama summarised the situation well when he said: "Developing nations want to make sure they do not have to sacrifice their aspirations for development and higher living standards, yet with most of the projected growth in emissions coming from these countries, their active participation is a prerequisite to a solution".
The Hammerson [Parc Tawe] development wasn't an easy fit with our aspirations for the development of the city centre".
She was tempted, but rejected the offer after she was told that although she had career aspirations for software development, the company would not honor them.
These are: broadly shared aspirations for peaceful development, strong apolitical constituencies able to counsel and restrain government, significant technical expertise, and popular buy-in to plans for spending the resulting revenues.
