Making Sustainability the Next Metric: The SDGs and Climate Change
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The SDGs and Climate Change The SDGs were adopted in 2015 after a multi-year process and built upon the MDGs. Goal 13 focuses on climate change and includes targets around adaptation, mainstreaming climate measures into policies, education and awareness, financing, and capacity building. There are synergies between climate change and many other goals around issues like food security, resilient agriculture, water, and energy. However, there are also some discords, such as economic goals not being truly transformative regarding limits to growth. Full implementation of climate and sustainability agendas requires integrating them into development planning, financing from multiple sources, identifying technology needs, monitoring systems, and enabling governance and partnerships.
Making Sustainability the Next Metric: The SDGs and Climate Change
- 1. The SDGS and Climate Change Karin Fernando COP 21 - Climate Change: Priorities and Concerns for Sri Lanka Organised by CANSA, Janathakshan and SLYCAN 16 November, 2015
- 2. Focus of the Presentationocus o s n on • The SDGs – the process and current status • SDGs and CC - Synergies, discords/gaps • Points to consider on SDGs
- 3. The SDS: Some Key Features More than 2 year consultative process B ilt MDG & d ith Ri 20 SDGBuilt on MDGs & merged with Rio+20 SDGs Adopted in September 2015 – 70th UNGA Universally applied with CBDR Goals are indivisible/ not stand aloneGoals are indivisible/ not stand alone Requires linking to other conventions – i.e CC, HR, DRR etcCC, HR, DRR etc Requires synching with national development planning visionsdevelopment planning visions
- 4. The SDGs: Ambition To end poverty… through SD approach: o People – end poverty, hunger, inequality, environment o Planet – protect, encourage SCP, NRM, action on CC – for present and future generations. o Prosperity – prosperous, fulfilling lives - economic, social and technological progress in harmony with naturenature. o Peace - foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. o Partnership – MOI for SD, especially for needs of poorest/vulnerable, participation of all countries, all t k h ld d ll lstakeholders and all people.
- 5. 17 goals, 169 targets , CBDR, countries can prioritize Source: www. sustainabledevelopment.un.org/ g g p
- 6. Genetic Diversity nutrient/climate GOALS Are Inter-Related IE: Goal on Hunger Genetic Diversity, nutrient/climate management Adequate income to t k IE: Goal on Hunger Nutrition, adequateeat, work adequate fish stocks Climate controls Health Resilience for adequateea t services and awareness q food Decent jobs with pay, good working conditionsClean safe affordable Equal access to food, technology, f d t conditions (health) Clean safe affordable Energy for cooking and livelihoods awareness on food to women
- 7. GOAL 13: Take Urgent Action to combat climate change and its impacts TARGETS • 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to hazards and disasters (ADAPTATION/DRR) • 13.2 Integrate CC measures into policies and planning (MAINSTREAM)planning (MAINSTREAM) • 13.3 Improve education, awareness, human/institutional capacity (AWARENESS/CAPACITY/FUNDS) • 13.a Implement commitment in UNFCCC to mobilize jointly $100 billion annually (Green climate Fund) for DCs • 13.b Capacity for effective CC - related planning and management3 p y p g g (LDCs, SIDs) * Acknowledging that the UNFCCC is the primary international intergovernmental forum for negotiating theinternational, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
- 8. SYNERGIES • Connected as a threat to all goals • Vulnerability to shocks, land (G1, G2)Vulnerability to shocks, land (G1, G2) • Resilient agriculture (G2) • Education in SD (G4) • Empowerment of women – Ownership of NR/land/assets Technology skill• Empowerment of women – Ownership of NR/land/assets, Technology, skill for women (G5), • Water efficiency, sus withdrawals, IWM, restore ecosystems (G6), • RE/Efficiency clean technology (G7)• RE/Efficiency, clean technology (G7) • Efficiency, pollution control, decouple environment , SCP, technology (G8, G9, G12), R ili DRR t t ffi i (G11)• Resilience, DRR, transport efficiency (G11) • Conservation of NR, ecosystem needs into planning, science based decision making, sustainable use of NR, acidification, BD protection (G14, 15) M bil i fi h l i i i i i l li k d• Mobilzing finance, technology, capacity, improving instituonal links, data (G17)
- 9. Discords and GAPs • Economic Goals (8,9,12) may not be transformative o Mainly focused on productivity, GDP, decent jobs o No mention of ecological balance/limits o No GHG targets, no reference to temperature o Talk about decoupling but it is a vague reference • Energy RE/Efficiency goals not specific, phasing out of FF has been removed as a target • No specific actions/language to deal with i “ i ”consumption or “over prosperity” • Education, health and inequality goals – ifi li k CCno specific link to CC
- 10. Discords and GAPs contd • Environmental goals on sustainable use not ecological balance o Just 2 goals to address all ecosystems – so defining key work areas is challenging NRM fli t t dd do NRM use conflicts not addressed • DRR and adaptation measures implicit – livelihoods strengthening but only broad brushed no real targetsstrengthening but only broad brushed no real targets
- 11. Implementation • The CC and SD agenda must be integrated into National development planning/ideology • Cannot be dealt with in silo-ed approach institutional linkages and synergistic agendas neededneeded • Financing from both ODA and DDA required and pooling of resourcespooling of resources • Technology needs to be identified/have to be solicited and also home growng • Data for monitoring – systems need to be set up • Success reliant on governance, peace and mutually beneficial partnerships