Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2016

Table of contents

Download the full report here (pdf version), for chapters see below.

Part I – Overview

The 2030 Agenda – a new start towards global sustainability? (en Español)
Jens Martens on behalf of the Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Box: The Sustainable Development Goals (en Español)

Reports from the bottom up: “The road is hazy and full of obstacles” (en Español)
Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Part II – Spotlights on the SDGs

The new goal on poverty: A welcome paradigm shift
Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Box: Leaving no one behind calls for far-reaching changes in the way development agencies operate
Xavier Godinot, International Movement ATD Fourth World

Towards the transformation of our agricultural and food systems
Lim Li Ching, Third World Network

The “Health SDG”: Some progress, but critical concerns remain
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)

Access to quality education, the new paradigm
Jorge Osorio-Vargas, Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile)

Overcoming Global Structural Obstacles and Preventing Negative Spill-over Effects for Realizing Women’s Human Rights
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)

Whose rights to water will the 2030 Agenda promote?
Meera Karunananthan, Council of Canadians

Energy at a crossroad
Niclas Hällström, What Next Forum

Decent work for all by 2030: taking on the private sector
Matt Simonds et al., ITUC

Industrialization, infrastructure and clean technology: at the heart of structural transformation but blocked by binding constraints in the international free trade regime
Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network

Will inequality get left behind in the 2030 Agenda?
Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

Towards a New Urban Agenda
Daria Cibrario, Public Services International

Corporate capture subverts production and consumption transformation
Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network

The Climate Change Battle in Paris: Putting Equity into Action
Meenakshi Raman and Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network

Part III – Measures and indicators

SDG Indicator Framework: Counting the trees, missing the forest
Barbara Adams, Roberto Bissio and Karen Judd

Towards a 2030 Agenda Dashboard
Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Part IV – National Reports
National reports are being published weekly.

Afghanistan,
Argentina,
Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Canada,
Cyprus,
Czech Republic,
Egypt




Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2016

Report of the Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Published by DAWN, TWN, Social Watch, GPF, and ANND
ISBN 978-3-943126-27-3
Beirut/Bonn/Montevideo/New York/Penang/Suva, July 2016

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