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SDGs – National and Sub-national Implementation and Indicators. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) www.iisd.org. 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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SDGs – National and Sub-national Implementation and Indicators International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) www.iisd.org
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.
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
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