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UNOSD 1 St Sustainable Development Transition Forum. Farooq Ullah Executive Director. Rio+20: Success or Failure?. “ Was Rio+20 a success or a failure? ” Simplistic and reductive, the answer is more nuanced Successes and failures must be itemised - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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UNOSD1St Sustainable Development
Transition Forum
Farooq Ullah
Executive Director
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Rio+20: Success or Failure?• “Was Rio+20 a success or a failure?”– Simplistic and reductive, the answer is more nuanced– Successes and failures must be itemised– Rio+20 was the starting point of various processes
• Time will be the truest judge of Rio+20.• But time is not on our side; we are sitting on a
socio-ecological time bomb.
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Where Are We Now?
Read Report Here
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Rio+20: Landmark Commitments
Commitment Progress
so farTarget date
Work plan
Stakeholder engagement mechanisms
Transparency
Overall assessment
High level political forum
VERY GOOD
Sustainable Development
Goals GOOD
Financing sustainable
development GOOD
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • SDGs set to replace the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) when they expire at end of 2015.
• SDGs and post-2015 development formally merged in Sept 2013.
• At Rio+20 States agreed that SDGs should be:– Action-oriented
– Concise and easy to communicate
– Limited in number
– Aspirational
– Global in nature and universally applicable to all countries • while taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of
development and respecting national policies and priorities.
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Open Working Group on SDGs• Group of UN Member States currently working on a
report proposing a set of SDGs, including targets and indicators
• Recently published 19 focus areas the goals should address.
• Currently discussing possible goals and targets (300) under each of these focus areas
• Not yet discussing indicators
• Not a negotiation, agreement by consensus
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New Post-2015 Process
• Intergovernmental Negotiations
– Starts September 2014
– UN Secretary General’s Synthesis Report (Nov 14)
• Draws on OWG report, HLP report, SDSN report, ICESDF report and UNDG consultations.
• Could be the basis of a Zero Draft for negotiations.
– Culminates in Global Summit in September 2015.
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The Universality Dilemma• What do we mean by ‘universal’?
– Norms and principles are relevant to all nations, irrespective of economic, social or environmental contexts, so the goals will apply to all countries
– But global goals don not easily translate to national contexts
– Therefore targets and indicators will be developed that reflect national contexts.
Challenge:
• How to ensure coherence between broad global goals and widely differing national contexts, i.e. how do we differentiate?
– Universality vs. differentiation (CBDR principle)
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SDGs Tests of Success
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Vertical Alignment
Vision
Goals
Implementation
SDGsSDGs
National SD Strategies & CouncilsNational SD Strategies & Councils
National PoliciesNational Policies
Post-2015Post-2015
Local Delivery ProgrammesLocal Delivery Programmes
Strategies
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Closing Thoughts• Good Governance is foundational to sustainable
development
– Need multi-layered, multi-dimensional systems of governance.
– Clear strategies for implementation
• Created Horizontal Integration, Vertical Alignment
• Move from Partnerships to Multi-Stakeholder Approaches
• Improve Accountability driving by Monitoring and Reporting
– The enforcement challenge
• Continue to drive awareness, coupled with Education for SD.