Songs of Innocence and Experience?

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1 NETGREEN Final Conference 15 October 2015 Songs of Innocence and Experience? Janos Zlinszky Director, REC SDA

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3 17 Sustainable Development Goals End poverty in all its forms everywhere End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Reduce inequality within and among countries Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts* Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

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5 Thanks for your kind attention! See you in the REC?

6 The fundamental goal or purpose of a good economy is to steadily improve the wellbeing of all people, now and in the future, with due regard to equity, within the constraints of nature, through the active engagement of all its participants. Consensus definition of the 300 participating business leaders of the 16 conferences of the Sustainable Economy Dialogue, Cambrige University Programme for Industry,

7 Corporate Sustainability and the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda Perspectives from UN Global Compact Participants on Global Priorities and How to Engage Business Towards Sustainable Development Goals Submitted by United Nations Global Compact 17 June 2013

8 Contribution by the Global Compact Post-2015 Issue Area Priorities Source: Global Compact LEAD consultations

9 Which areas of action should be the top priority for the world?

10 The World We Want

11 The 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 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 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* *Acknowledging that the UNFCCC is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. 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 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

12 Mapping the draft Sustainable Development Goals onto the doughnut 13 Focus of a goal Included in targets , 11, Raworth , 11, 12 12

13 In the 2012 UN Global Compact Annual Implementation Survey, companies were asked to identify which global priority issues they believe to be the most urgent, as well as which issues their company could have the greatest positive impact on in the future. 1,712 companies from over 100 countries responded to the survey. Source: UN Global Compact Annual Implementation Survey 2012

14 As you weigh up the importance of goals and targets, look for: Foundations/enablers, Triggers of domino-effects and avalanches, Starters for virtuous cycles

15 Avalanche target Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies Expanding modern energy Increased share of renewables Deployment of cleaner technologies Improving energy efficiency Retro-fitting industry Job-rich Employment technology Poverty Environmental causes of Health disease morbidity Improve energy CO2 Emissions productivity Economic Affordable Growth housing Poverty Disasters Resilience to climate change Climate change

16 Avalanche target under the education goal: Equitable access to education Universal free primary Universal lifelong ed. Universal free secondary Adult literacy Access to tertiary education Ending child marriage Skills to match labour market Access to the labour market