The 2030 Agenda adopted at a UN summit in New York on 25 September 2015 were greeted by politicians and activists with much enthusiasm. Indeed, the Agenda as well as the SDGs that are at its core provide progress in many areas. They constitute a universal sustainability agenda that transcends many of the shortcomings of previous efforts and, if taken seriously, will require ambitious implementation by many actors.
However, many of the details of the 2030 Agenda are still to be determined: Indicators that will make SDG fulfillment measurable are being developed by a working group of the UN Statistics Commission until March 2016. Monitoring and accountability instruments will be negotiated in early 2016. Implementation at national levels is just at the beginning, and a look at the means of implementation that are part of the 2030 Agenda and the outcome of the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development in July in Addis Ababa give little hope for seeing a meaningful transformation towards sustainability by 2030.
At the same time, governments are trying to formulate a global deal on how to mitigate and/or adapt to climate change in Paris. Are the SDGs a good example for how to broker a deal, or have they made the job for diplomats even harder? There are lessons to be learned from Addis Ababa and New York, and there are parallels in the outcomes that may well cast a shadow on the climate talks.
Referent/in:
Wolfgang Obenland, Global Policy Forum
Zielgruppe
Studenten/ Gäste
Adresse
Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1 Bonn 53115, HS I
Wann
03.12.2015, 17.00-18.30 Uhr
The international master program “ARTS” will contribute a seminar series on the dimensions of climate change. Please find the program here.
Quelle: Mitteiulung der Universität Bonn vom 02.12.2015
The 2030 Agenda adopted at a UN summit in New York on 25 September 2015 were greeted by politicians and activists with much enthusiasm. Indeed, the Agenda as well as the SDGs that are at its core provide progress in many areas. They constitute a universal sustainability agenda that transcends many of the shortcomings of previous efforts and, if taken seriously, will require ambitious implementation by many actors.
However, many of the details of the 2030 Agenda are still to be determined: Indicators that will make SDG fulfillment measurable are being developed by a working group of the UN Statistics Commission until March 2016. Monitoring and accountability instruments will be negotiated in early 2016. Implementation at national levels is just at the beginning, and a look at the means of implementation that are part of the 2030 Agenda and the outcome of the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development in July in Addis Ababa give little hope for seeing a meaningful transformation towards sustainability by 2030.
At the same time, governments are trying to formulate a global deal on how to mitigate and/or adapt to climate change in Paris. Are the SDGs a good example for how to broker a deal, or have they made the job for diplomats even harder? There are lessons to be learned from Addis Ababa and New York, and there are parallels in the outcomes that may well cast a shadow on the climate talks.
Referent/in:
Wolfgang Obenland, Global Policy Forum
Zielgruppe
Studenten/ Gäste
Adresse
Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1 Bonn 53115, HS I
Wann
03.12.2015, 17.00-18.30 Uhr
The international master program “ARTS” will contribute a seminar series on the dimensions of climate change. Please find the program here.
Quelle: Mitteiulung der Universität Bonn vom 02.12.2015