The Declaration of the 2030 Agenda calls to “strengthen the productive capacities of least developed countries in all sectors, including through structural transformation”. dddddddddddddddddd Read the full report By Katsiaryna Serada
The loss in biodiversity is unprecedented. Without more ambitious policies, biodiversity is projected to decline by a further 10% globally by 2050 (OECD). The increasing loss in biodiversity is driven by the anthropogenic factors – climate change, unsustainable land-use management, commercial forestry, infrastructure development, pollution, habitat encroachment and fragmentation. The existing approaches of the legally …
The second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)heldin Montreal July, 9- 13. This year the SBI2 reviewedthe progress in the implementation of the CBD, the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020towards the achievement of the Aichi targets; assessed and reviewedthe effectiveness of the Nagoya Protocol; examined …
The UNCTAD has reafirmed its earlier statement made in the 2017 Report “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Consumer Protection” that “consumer protection can be a major contribution to meeting the SDGs. Many emerging technologies have the potential to make a major contribution towards achieving the SDGs across multiple areas, but require unprecedented resource mobilization, …
The aim of achieving Sustainable Development Goal 12 on responsible consumption and production requires changing the linear production model, says the recent research paper developing countries to facilitate sustainable development, especially in relation to the targets on technology and trade. According to the Report, the IPRs should be geared to each country’s level of development …
A Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)and the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO International Treaty) was signed on July, 9 on the margins of the second meeting of the CBD’s Subsidiary Body on Implementation,held in Montreal from 9 to 13 …
The NGO Major Group, tasked with facilitating the participation and enhancing the engagement NGOs in the processes related to the High Level Political Forum, the focal point for sustainable development at the UN, has published its 2018 HLPF Position Paper. The NGO Major Group calls for “a new development paradigm that prioritizes the flourishing of …
The integrated and transformative nature of the 2030 Agenda requires the appropriate policy environment, that factors in, empowers and operationalizes intersectoral linkages and cross-sectoral collaboration. The success of transforming Food and Agriculture to achieve SDGs also depends upon “the fundamental premise” of the effective and transparent institutional cooperation across government, innovative public-private partnerships, empowering smallscale …
The global progress is not keeping pace with the ambitions of the Agenda 2030, necessitating immediate and accelerated action by countries and stakeholders at all levels, – says Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018. The Report is based latest data on selected indicators of the global SDG framework developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on …
Imbalances in distributing the benefits of the international investment agreements, adoption of the Agenda 2030 have triggered the sustainable development-oriented reform of the global IIA regime. Since 2012, over 150 countries have taken steps to formulate a new generation of sustainable development-oriented IIAs which work for all stakeholders. Some countries revised their treaty models in …
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