Understanding Sustainable

Development Goals: Convergences

between the UNFCCC & the SDG

Processes

Vositha Wijenayke

Policy and Advocacy Coordinator - CANSA

Introduction to SDGs

• Outcome of the United Nations Conference on

Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June 2012

• Member States agreed to launch a process to

develop a set of sustainable development goals

(SDGs).

• No specific goals elaborated, but SDGs should be

limited in number, aspirational and easy to

communicate.

Introduction to SDGs

• The goals should:

- address in a balanced way all three dimensions

of sustainable development

- be coherent with and integrated into the UN

development agenda beyond 2015.

• A 30-member Open Working Group (OWG) of the

General Assembly was tasked with preparing a proposal on the SDGs.

Open Working Group

• Established 22nd January 2013• Innovative, constituency-based system of representation

used that is new to limited membership bodies of the General Assembly.

• Most of the seats in the OWG are shared by several countries.

• To decide on its methods of work, including developing modalities to ensure the full involvement of relevant stakeholders and expertise from civil society, the scientific community and the United Nations system in its work

South Asia in the Open Working Group

• Asia-Pacific Group

Nauru / Palau / Papua New GuineaBhutan / Thailand / Viet NamIndia / Pakistan / Sri LankaChina / Indonesia / KazakhstanCyprus / Singapore / United Arab EmiratesBangladesh / Republic of Korea / Saudi ArabiaIran (Islamic Republic of) / Japan / Nepal

General Assembly Resolution on SDGs

• 10 September 2014 , the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 66/288 resolution for the incorporation of sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda.

• the Open Working Group’s outcome document would be the main basis for integrating the SDGs into the future development agenda

Proposed Sustainable Development Goals

• 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 equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all

• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Proposed Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

• Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

• Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Proposed Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements 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 for sustainable development

• Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Proposed Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Convergence Between UNFCCC & 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 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Convergence Between UNFCCC & SDGs

• Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

• Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Convergence Between UNFCCC & SDGs

• Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

• Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Convergence Between UNFCCC & SDGs

• Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

• Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Moving Ahead…