Transcript SDGs

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SDGs – National and Sub-national
Implementation and Indicators
International Institute for Sustainable
Development (IISD)
www.iisd.org
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Sustainable Development Goals
• SDGs offer a ‘supremely ambitious and transformational vision’
for our common future till 2030.
• 17 goals; 169 sub-goals
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#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
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Features of the SDGs
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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Indicators to Monitor Progress
• Proposal for indicators developed in July 2015;
finalized spring 2016
• Mix of globally aggregated data – FAO,
UNEP, convention databases
• Global satellite data
• New indicator development – food waste
• Country-level efforts will be needed
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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)
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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