UN SDGs 2030

Lecture 2-3

From the desk of Adeel Durvesh

The SDGs are …

➤ A set of 17 goals for the world’s future, through 2030

➤ Backed up by a set of 169 detailed Targets

➤ Negotiated over a two-year period at the United Nations

➤ Agreed to by nearly all the world’s nations, on 25 Sept 2015

 What is new and different
about the 17 SDGs?
First, and most important, these Goals apply to every nation … and
every sector. Cities, businesses, schools, organizations, all are
challenged to act. This is called

Universality
Second, it is recognized that the Goals are all inter-connected, in a
system. We cannot aim to achieve just one Goal. We must achieve
them all. This is called

Integration
And finally, it is widely recognized that achieving these Goals involves
making very big, fundamental changes in how we live on Earth. This is
called

Transformation
Let’s take a tour …
The World’s To-Do List by
2030
 UN SDGs Knowledge
Platform
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs
Goal 1: End poverty in all its
forms everywhere
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food
security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and
promote well-being for all at all
ages
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and
quality education for all and
promote lifelong learning
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality
and empower all women and girls
Goal 6: Ensure access to water
and sanitation for all
Goal 7: Ensure access to
affordable, reliable, sustainable
and modern energy for all
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and
sustainable economic growth,
employment and decent work for all
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure,
promote sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation
Goal 10: Reduce inequality
within and among countries
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive,
safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable
consumption and production
patterns
Goal 13: Take urgent action to
combat climate change and its
impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use
the oceans, seas and marine resources
Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests,
combat desertification, halt and reverse
land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful
and inclusive societies
Sustainable Development Goals
• SDGs offer a ‘supremely ambitious and transformational vision’
for our common future till 2030.
• 17 goals; 169 sub-goals
 #6: Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation for All

• By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
• By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open
defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable
situations
• By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release
of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and
...increasing recycling and safe reuse
• By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable
withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number
of people suffering from water scarcity

• By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through
transboundary cooperation as appropriate
• By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands,
rivers, aquifers and lakes
Features of the SDGs

• Action-oriented
• Concise
• Easy to communicate
• Limited in number
• Aspirational
• Global in nature
• Universally applicable to all countries while taking into account
different national realities, capacities and levels of development and
respecting national policies and priorities.
 Connection between SDGs
• SDGs cannot be implemented in isolation.
• Goal no 2 focuses on hunger and sustainable food production
also aims to promote a resilient agricultural system to climate
change;
• Goal 12 on sustainable production and consumption (SCP),
requires sustainable management and efficient use of natural
resources.
• Implementation needs to be based on a highly integrated
strategy
 Environmental Challenges:
Pollution and Waste
• #3 on healthy lives (3.9 death and illness form hazardous
chemicals)
• #12 on SCP (12.3 food waste, 12.4 environmentally sound
management of chemicals; 12.5 waste reduction; 12.6 reporting)
• # 13 combat climate change
• #14 marine pollution (14.1)
Integrating SDGs into planning

• National planning documents (SD strategies, review of SD strategies,

and overlap between SD strategies and SDGs)
• Cross-cutting nature of issues of our interests (air, chemicals, waste)
• Thresholds, scale of change
• Consultation with key stakeholders – issues of priorities (big issues for
few places)
• Action plans to develop measures and sub-national strategies
 Current efforts on implementing SDGs
• Europe 2020 Strategy – approx. third of the SDGs are covered by the
Europe 2020 Strategy.
• In Australia – approx. 100 participants from a wide range of sectors
comprehensively examined the proposed SDGs for Australia and
suggested indicators and actions for implementation.
• In Germany the consultation was led by the German Sustainable
Development Council.
• Uganda - consultation to identify priorities and integration of SDGs into
their next National Development plan.
• Colombia created a ministerial level inter-institutional Commission; it
includes key Ministries and other levels of government, academia,
business and civil society.
Linking Indicators and Implementation

• Sound economic development and environmental management are

interdependent—taking this interdependence into account is key
for achieving poverty reduction and general human well-being -
llimited data availability (sectorial monitoring; making linkages)
• Tools for integration of data into implementation and measuring
progress
• Potential to developed more collaborative monitoring and reporting
schemes (public, private, sub-national)
Future initiatives on SDGs
- to strengthen the effectiveness of SDG implementation at the
national level by improving capacity to report on progress
towards SDGs for domestic and international purposes.

- a simple dashboard combining a small number of already

accepted indices related to key domains for the countries
actually decide to report and use in their national SDG review
mechanisms

- Progressively new indicator and indicator system

development and implementation
It's time for a new social contract
• Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global
risks have been ignored by those with the power to act.
• 2017 was a year of living dangerously for the world: Indications of
uncertainty, instability and fragility proliferated
• When governments are cowed, or simply don’t care to enforce fundamental
human and labour rights, or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can
invest in social protection will lead to a corporate greed

• This must focus on the responsibility of business, including platform

businesses.

• https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/time-new-social-contract-
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