Spotlight on Sustainable Development

192 Pages·2016·3.33 MB·English

Spotlight on
Sustainable Development
Report by the Reflection Group
on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2016

Spotlight on
Sustainable Development
2016
Report by the Reflection Group
on the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development
with contributions from
GLOBAL ALLIANCE
FOR TAX JUSTICE
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Table of contents
Overview
1.1 The 2030 Agenda –
a new start towards global sustainability? 11
By Jens Martens on behalf of the Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
1.2 Reports from the bottom up:
“The road is hazy and full of obstacles” 16
By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch
Spotlights on the SDGs
2.1 The new goal on poverty: A welcome paradigm shift 27
By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch
2.2 Towards the transformation
of our agricultural and food systems 33
By Lim Li Ching, Third World Network
2.3 The “Health SDG”:
Some progress, but critical concerns remain 39
By Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
2.4 Access to quality education, the new paradigm 44
By Jorge Osorio-Vargas, Professor at the Escuela de Psicología, Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile)
2.5 Overcoming Global Structural Obstacles and Preventing Negative Spill-over Effects
for Realizing Women’s Human Rights 49
By Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
2.6 Whose rights to water will the 2030 Agenda promote? 54
By Meera Karunananthan, Council of Canadians,
in collaboration with Devin Tellatin and the NGO Mining Working Group
2.7 Energy at a crossroad 60
By Niclas Hällström, What Next Forum
2.8 Decent work for all by 2030: taking on the private sector 68
By Matt Simonds with substantial inputs from Paola Simonetti, Yorgos Altintzis, and Theo Morrissey, ITUC
2.9 Industrialization, infrastructure and clean technology: at the heart of structural
transformation but blocked by binding constraints in the international free trade regime 73
By Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network
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2.10 W ill inequality get left behind in the 2030 Agenda? 80
By Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
2.11 Towards a New Urban Agenda 87
By Sandra Vermuyten, Public Services International
2.12 Corporate capture subverts
production and consumption transformation 94
By Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
2.13 T he climate change battle in Paris: putting equity into action 101
By Meenakshi Raman and Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
2.14 P olicy choices for helping or hindering the poor 110
By Christine von Weizsäcker, Ecoropa
2.15 “ There can be no sustainable development without
peace and no peace without sustainable development” 115
By Robert Zuber, Global Action to Prevent War
2.16 B eyond the current means of implementation 122
By Stefano Prato, Society for International Development
2.17 I nternational Trade and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 130
By Ranja Sengupta, Third World Network
Measures and indicators
3.1 Measuring Accountability: The politics of indicators 141
By Barbara Adams, Roberto Bissio and Karen Judd
3.2 Towards a 2030 Agenda Dashboard 148
By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch
Abbreviations 186
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Figures
Figure 2.7.1 61
The correlation between energy use and human well-being
Figure 2.7.2 63
From conventional centralized to smart, distributed renewable, people-centered energy models
Figure 2.14.1 111
Neither the State nor the formal Market but Ecosystems provide for the livelihoods of the Poor
Figure 3.2.1 151
Basic capabilities increase with more money … up to a point
Figure 3.2.2 152
Income and gender equity do not correlate completely
Figure 3.2.3 153
The equitable share of the climate bill
Figure 3.2.4 155
The Kuznets curve
Figure 3.2.5 155
Palma Ratio does not follow the Kutznets curve
Figure 3.2.6 160
“Social intensity of carbon”
Boxes
The Sustainable Development Goals 13
Leaving no one behind calls for far-reaching changes in the way development agencies operate 29
By Xavier Godinot, International Movement ATD Fourth World
Stop funding for-profit private schools 47
The Africa Renewable Energy Initiative 65
“Leave No One Behind” 82
Tinkering with “sustainable or eco tourism” hides the real face of tourism 96
By Anita Pleumarom (Tourism Investigation and Monitoring Team) and Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network)
Civil Society Review of INDCs 102
Implementation of SDG 16 vital for the Middle East and North Africa 116
By Ziad Abdel Samad, Arab NGO Network for Development
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Illicit Financial Flows 124
By Dereje Alemayehu, Global Alliance for Tax Justice
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Multi-stakeholder STI Mechanisms at the UN: Fad or Trap? 127
By Neth Daño, ETC Group
TTIP – a threat for the 2030 Agenda 138
By Hubert René Schillinger, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Geneva
Beyond GDP in Italy 144
Tables
Table 3.2.1 157
The Top 10 in the Global Militarization Index
Table 3.2.2 157
Intentional homices per 100,000 persons and Palma ratio (select countries)
Table 3.2.3 158
Financial Secrecy Index 2015 – Top 10
Table 3.2.4 162
Basic Capabilities Index, GDP per capita and Human Development Index
Table 3.2.5 166
The Gender Equity Index – Richer doesn’t make women more equal, economic and political empowerment does
Table 3.2.6 170
The Social Protection Floor Index
Table 3.2.7 172
The equitable share of the climate bill
Table 3.2.8 175
The Palma Ratio
Table 3.2.9 176
Index on Militarization
Table 3.2.10 178
Financial Secrecy Index – 2015 Results
Table 3.2.11 181
The “Social Intensity of Carbon”
The online version of this report, available at www.socialwatch.org, includes civil society contributions from:
Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada,
Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador,
Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon,
Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea,
Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, United States, Venezuela, and Yemen.
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