Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018
Press Release |
Table of contents |
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Preface |
Part I – Overview |
Redefining policies for sustainable development |
Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum |
on behalf of the Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development |
Box 0.1: The world needs to revamp international tax cooperation |
By José Antonio Ocampo, Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) |
Alternative national reports throw light on inequalities |
Roberto Bissio, Social Watch |
Box 0.2: Claim of ‘leave no one behind’ must include indigenous peoples |
By Joshua Cooper, University of Hawai’i |
Box 0.3: How to leave no one behind in statistics? |
By Xavier Godinot, International Movement ATD Fourth World |
Part II – Cross-cutting policy areas |
1. The increasing concentration of wealth and economic power as an obstacle to sustainable development – and what to do about it |
By Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights, and Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum |
Box 1.1: De-financialization requires global economic governance reform |
By Jesse Griffiths, Eurodad |
2. Policies that strengthen the nexus between food, health, ecology, livelihoods and identities |
By Stefano Prato, Society for International Development, Elenita Daño and Trudi Zundel, ETC Group, Lim Li Ching and Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network |
Box 2.1: The food-health-environment nexus: addressing environmental and human health risks simultaneously |
By the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) |
3. Vector of hope, source of fear |
By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch |
Box 3.1: Half of humanity is NOT online |
Box 3.2: Data sovereignty |
By IT for Change |
Box 3.3: Machines (algorithms) are already deciding our future |
By Prabir Purkayastha |
4. Care systems and SDGs: reclaiming policies for life sustainability |
By Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) |
Box 4.1: The National Care System in Uruguay |
5. Quest for sustainable peace and development under militarized security approaches |
By Ziad Abdel Samad and Bihter Moschini, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) |
Part III – Spotlights on the SDGs |
SDG 1. Mobilize the financial means for social protection systems for all |
By the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors |
SDG 2. Approaching SDG 2 through the Right to Food and Nutrition |
By Emily Mattheisen, FIAN International |
SDG 3. The need to strengthen public funding for the WHO |
By K M Gopakumar, Third World Network (TWN) |
SDG 4. The quest for public funding for education and SDG 4 |
By Antonia Wulff, Education International |
SDG 5. Women, macroeconomic policies and the SDGs |
By Crystal Simeoni, Femnet and Stephanie Muchai, Hivos |
SDG 6. (Re)municipalization of water – the right way towards achieving SDG 6 |
By Meera Karunananthan, Blue Planet Project, and Satoko Kishimoto, Transnational Institute |
SDG 7. Power for the people? The chimera of pro-poor energy solutions |
By Arthur Muliro Wapakala, Society for International Development (SID) |
SDG 8. What policies are needed to achieve Goal 8? The trade union recipe for SDG implementation |
By Paola Simonetti, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) |
SDG 9. Alternatives to PPPs – growing instances of de-privatization |
By Public Services International (PSI) |
SDG 10. Invoking extraterritorial human rights obligations to confront extreme inequalities between countries |
By Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights |
SDG 11. To ensure sustainable waste services, we must value waste workers and make sure they are in decent jobs |
By Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI) |
SDG 12. Curbing the consumption of ultra-processed foods and beverages critical to achieving SDG 12 |
By Marisa Macari, Alejandro Calvillo and Fiorella Espinosa, El Poder del Consumidor |
SDG 13. Climate Justice - How climate change battles are increasingly being fought, and won, in court |
By Tessa Khan, Climate Litigation Network |
SDG 14. Sustainable fishery or Blue Economy? |
By Francisco J. Marí, Bread for the World – Protestant Development Service |
SDG 15. The 30-year search for biodiversity gold: history repeats itself? |
By Jessica Dempsey, University of British Columbia |
SDG 16. Policies to address the gender dimension of Illicit Financial Flows |
By Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) |
SDG 17. Trading away the SDGs? |
By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch |
Part IV – NATIONAL REPORTS |
National reports are being published weekly. |
BRAZIL |
CYPRUS |
FINLAND |
FRANCE |
INDIA |
JORDAN |
KENYA |
NEPAL |
UNITED KINGDOM |
Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018 Report by the Civil Society Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Published by: ISBN 978-3-943126-40-2 |
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