SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

MDGs TO SDGs…
~6300 km
 SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
 Evolution of SD concept Settling of the SD concept Time to act

1972 1980 1982 1983 1987 1992 2000 2002 2012 2015
Limits to UN Earth
Growth (Rio) Summit
(Roma Club) UN World RIO +20
IUCN UN World Commission Our Common (The United UN UN J’burg SDGs
United on Future Nations The
Nations World Charter Environment (Brundtland) Conference Millenium Summit Paris
Conference Conservation
Strategy
for Nature and Report on Summit (WSSD) Future We Agreement
on the Development Environment Want
Human and Dev’t,
Environment UNCED)

Local efforts
Local/Regional Efforts Global Efforts
Starting of the
Initiation of the integration efforts
Setting the
analysis of the The concept of sustainable development
problems by following the questioning of the starts occupying the global and national actions
evaluating negative social and environmental agendas, its principles are accepted,
social (hunger, impacts of economical became widespread and institutionalized
poverty, etc.) and development
environmental
(pollution,health
problems) impacts
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In the beginning...
Environment
Economy
• Natural resources are “free to use” for economical growth.
• Environmental problems are different than social and economical
problems. Society
• Environmental investments are barriers in front of development.

"Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs

of the present without compromising the ability of future Economy
Environment
generations to meet their own needs."
Society
“Our Common Future” Brundtland Report, II. Chapter, p 54
(UNCED, 1987) Sustainable
Development

“Sustainable development is to improve the quality of human life

while living within the carrying capacity of supporting eco- Economy
systems."
Society

IUCN/UNEP/WWF. Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Environment

Living. (Gland, Switzerland: 1991)
 EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

"Sustainable development is the

development that meets the
needs of the present without
compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their
own needs."

“Our Common Future”

Brundtland Report, II. Chapter, p
54
(UNCED, 1987)
MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS
Millenium Development Goals: 2000-2015
 MDGS’ FEATURES
 8 goals steering development policy
focusing on key social issues
 results-driven (what gets measured
gets done)

 conceived in times of economic prosperity in donor countries

 leaving out economic aspects, investments, climate change
 not widely consulted
IS IT ENOUGH?
Distribution of wealth
Climate change…
9 PLANETARY BOUNDARIES, 4 ALARMS: Climate Change, Biosfphere
reserves, land systems, biochemical flows
DO WE NEED NEW TARGETS!
THE POST-2015 PROCESS: TWO STRANDS
INTO ONE
Sustainable development Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Served as a framework for global action and
This concept gained traction during
cooperation on development in 2000-2015.
the Rio Summits in 1992 and 2012.
2000-15: UN Millennium Declaration
1992: Rio Earth Summit & MDGs
2012: Rio+20

Post-2015 process
Brought together the two strands & extended public participation in defining the new
agenda.

2012–15: UN-led global conversation

WorldWeWant and MY World
8.5 million people engaged in deciding what should go in the post-2015 agenda, and
how the agenda should be implemented
 SDGS’ FEATURES
3 pillars: environmental – social – economic
= sustainable
Universal = concern all countries
Holistic = work across pillars
Transformative = human rights-based, governance, local
dimension, inclusive (‘leave no one behind’)
New global partnership = new actors, including the private
sector and volunteer groups
Focus on people and participation
SDGS: STRUCTURED AROUND 5
PRINCIPLES

 People
 Prosperity
 Peace
 Partnership
 Planet
17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
1-5: MDG’S ‘UNFINISHED BUSINESS’

1. End poverty

2. End hunger 3. Ensure healthy lives

5. Gender equality

4. Ensure education
 6-11: NEW AREAS

6. Water & sanitation

7. Energy 8. Employment
9. Resilient infrastructure
10. 11. Safe urban
Reduce settlements
inequality
 12-15: GREEN AGENDA

12. Sustainable consumption and production

13. Climate change

14. Oceans

15. Terrestrial ecosystems

 17 GLOBAL GOALS
16: Governance/ peace 17: Means of Implementation and
partnership

16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies 17. Strengthen the means of
for sustainable development, provide access to implementation and revitalize the
justice for all and build effective, accountable global partnership for sustainable
and inclusive institutions at all levels development
IN ORDER NOT TO LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND…