Songs of Innocence and Experience?

Janos Zlinszky

Director, REC SDA

NETGREEN Final Conference15 October 2015

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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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“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, 2003-6

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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

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Contribution by the Global Compact•Post-2015 Issue Area Priorities

•Source: Global Compact LEAD consultations

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

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The World We Want

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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

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Mapping the draft Sustainable Development Goals onto the doughnut

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• •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

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As you weigh up the importance

of goals and targets, look for:

• Foundations/enablers,

• Triggers of „domino-effects”

and „avalanches”,

• Starters for „virtuous cycles”

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„Avalanche” target

Phasing out

fossil fuel

subsidies

Expanding

modern

energy

Increased share

of renewables

Deployment of

cleaner

technologies

Improving

energy

efficiency

Retro-fitting

industry

Environmental

causes of

disease

Improve energy

productivity

Affordable

housing

Resilience to

climate change

Job-rich

technologyPoverty

Employment

CO2 Emissions

Health

morbidity

Economic

Growth

Poverty

Disasters

Climate

change

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„Avalanche” target under the education goal:

Equitable access to education Univer-

sal life-long ed.

Adult literacy

Access tothe labourmarket

Skills to matchlabour market

Universalfree primary

Universalfree secondary

Access totertiaryeducation

Ending childmarriage