Eleven years ago, a little-known Colombian diplomat pushed 193 countries to sign the Sustainable Development Goals.
Today the biggest signer is gone, no one has moved to replace it, and an Ebola outbreak in Congo is showing what that costs.
The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals pledge, among other things, to eradicate poverty, ensure access to clean energy, and end the epidemics of infectious diseases like Ebola by 2030.