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Joint Statement United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda May 2013 Geneva In keeping with its mandate to promote policy coherence and programme coordination in the UN system, as well as provide guidance on issues related to inclusive Knowledge Societies and especially on information and communications technologies (ICTs) in support of internationally agreed development goals, the 30 members of the UN Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) respectfully submit this joint statement to the UN Secretary General and the UN Task Team.
The statement is a collective contribution to the dialogue on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, a unified effort to harness inter-agency expertise and experience to support deliberations on Post-2015 priorities, and a united commitment to a UN community poised to address development challenges in the 21st century. 1. When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in 2000, the international community was only beginning to understand the catalytic potential of ICTs to advance development agendas and priorities. One of the targets under Goal 8 calls for making the benefits of technologies, particularly ICTs, available to all.
Two years before the deadline for achieving the MDGs, Target 18 seems achievable by 2015 when it comes to access to mobile services. However, the potential of ICTs as key enablers for inclusive development have yet to be fully acknowledged, harnessed and specifically linked to the achievement of all other MDG targets. 2. In 2003 and 2005, at the two phases of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), the international community agreed on a set of commitments that recognize ICTs as enablers for development. World leaders representing Governments, civil society, private sector and the technical community set out a strategic framework for their deployment and use with the engagement of and in partnership with multi-sectoral stakeholders.
This framework captures the potential of ICTs in enhancing access, especially of vulnerable populations, to education, health care and other public services, to information, finance and knowledge, and the role of ICTs for the protecting the environment, for mitigating natural disaster risks, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources and sustainable food production and for women’s empowerment. This is in line with the internationally-agreed development goals in general and with environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources in particular, as mentioned in both the Rio Principles and Agenda 21
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3) Case studies that demonstrate the value of integrated approaches, such as for issues related to oceans, seas, marine resources and human well-being.
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1. The document outlines plans for the United Nations Summit of the Future in 2024, which will address challenges identified in the Secretary-General's report Our Common Agenda and work to enhance global cooperation.
2. Member States will decide the focus of the summit through intergovernmental negotiations, but the Secretary-General proposes areas like sustainability, global governance reform, and pandemic response.
3. The summit aims to produce an "Action-oriented Pact for the Future" that strengthens multilateral commitments like the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The document outlines plans for the United Nations Summit of the Future in 2024. It provides background on related UN initiatives like the 2030 Agenda and Our Common Agenda report. The Summit will address major global challenges and gaps in governance. Member states will consider proposals to strengthen cooperation and multilateral solutions. The preparatory process involves intergovernmental consultations leading up to the Summit in September 2024.
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Some Ways to Contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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S-11/Beyond MDGs Japan symposium on The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transforming Japan and the World
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VirtualDialogue_IGS_PrivateSector.pptx
1. 3 March 2023, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. EST
Virtual Dialogue on
The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)
between the Independent Group of Scientists (IGS)
and Private Sector Representatives
2. • Welcome remarks
• Presentation on Preliminary Findings and Recommendations of
the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)
• Moderated discussion with private sector representatives
• Q&A with audience
• Closing thoughts
AGENDA
3. Welcome Remarks
Ms. Astra Bonini
Senior Sustainable Development Officer
Division for Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
4. Presentation on Preliminary Findings
and Recommendations of the 2023
Global Sustainable Development Report
(GSDR)
Professor Norichika Kanie
Keio University; Member of the Independent Group of Scientists
appointed by the Secretary-General to draft the 2023 GSDR
5. Members of the Independent Group of Scientists (N=15)
Prof. Norichika Kanie, Professor, Keio University and Director, xSDG Lab
at Keio SFC Research Institute
Virtual Dialogue on the
2023 Global Sustainable
Development Report
(GSDR) between the
Independent Group of
Scientists (IGS) and
Private Sector
Representatives
8. …. sense of urgency AND a sense of hope
IGS 2023 wanted to…
• Keep a Focus on the
INTEGRATED perspective of
SDGs to avoid trade-offs and
international spillovers
• Use Theory of Change that
could help accelerate actions
at key phases.
22. Public interest groups,
policymakers, industry and
teachers should have access
to all underlying scientific
research including
publications, data and
software
Outputs of research,
metadata, should be freely
accessible with no borders –
geographical, temporal,
social or cultural, expands
use of science towards the
attainment of the SDGs
OPEN SCIENCE
23. Science-Society
Fake News
Agenda 2030
• States, media outlets and regulatory bodies
should explore a GLOBAL CODE OF CONDUCT
that promotes integrity in public information,
facilitated by the United Nations
• Time to better manage and regulate the digital
commons as a global public good
UN Secretary General, in Our Common Agenda
25. Establish an SDG Transformation Framework for Accelerated
Action by 2024
How to Build Capacity of State and Non-state-holders
How to use Levers in an integrated way to overcome impediments
along the S-curve
Identifying interventions (for each Entrypoint) that will capitalize
on SDG synergies and minimize trade-offs and spillovers
Identify measures to accelerate implementation.
Call to Actions in 5Themes
… For today, we will focus on the First Call to Action theme.
26. Set global priorities that guide national prioritisation of
SDG action
Analysis of SDG interlinkages
ID Synergies, Bottlenecks and Multilateral commitments:
Minimize Environmental tradeoffs, transboundary
spillovers
Identification of key interventions to achieve Multiple
Goals
27. • Making progress on the SDGs is an
insurance/building resilient systems against
new crises and shocks
28.
29. Norine
Kennedy
Senior Vice
President,
United States
Council for
International
Business
(USCIB)
Moderated discussion with private sector
representatives
Cristina
Moral
Senior Advisor
Climate
Policies and
International
Alliances,
Iberdrola
Silvano De
Marte
External
Advisor
International
Organisation
of Employers
(IOE)
Kathleen
Ebersohn-
Khuvutlu
Senior
Sustainability
Manager, Old
Mutual Limited
Mardi
McBrien
Director of
Strategic
Affairs, IFRS
Foundation
MODERATO
R
Shivani
Nayyar
United Nations
Department of
Economic and
Social Affairs
(UNDESA)
Questions/Comments? Please use the Q&A box and clarify which speaker it is addressed to. Thank you!
30. Q&A
You can either raise hand in Zoom to ask for the floor or share comments/questions in the Q&A box.
Please identify yourself (name and organization) at the beginning.
31. Thank you!
For more information about the 2023 GSDR, please visit https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023
Follow us on Facebook/Twitter @SustDev for latest intergovernmental updates related to the SDGs.
Editor's Notes
Thank hosts
A key assumption is that we live in the Anthropocene Age, where human impacts dominate the planet, so we really are addressing the impact of the human species on how our planet functions that includes the atmosphere(climate change), lands(deforestation), freshwater (pollution),oceans (overfishing plastics, acidification), and finally- biodiversity loss through all of those impacts
GEC=
atmosphere, hydrosphere, global oceans, cryosphere, polar regions, forests, land, freshwater, and biodiversity
The SDG Ecosystem/Universe/world is large and growing, as you;ll see, so as the IGS, how can we contribute- Focus on how Acceleration of SDGS through a holistic perspective, and recognizing
1-A better understanding of patterns of synergies and trade-offs can support strategic decision making and promote interventions for the SDGs.
2-work that can help decision makers find synergies and minimize tradeoffs.
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NB/ Verify time frame of direction of movement(not clear from text)
In the previous slides, we spoke of global scenario projections based on sustainability pathways, compared to business as usual. We identified core sets of interventions that would work synergistically along an integrated pathways to achieve the SDGs- as key shifts to accelerate transformations . But the timing of these interventions is also key—
A successful transformation can be considered in three phases – emergence, acceleration and stabilization – that trace an S-curve (figure 3-1). The first, emergence phase is when innovative ideas slowly give rise to new technologies and practices that operate in niches and on the fringe, often through experimentation and learning. During the second acceleration phase these innovations gain momentum and reach tipping points beyond which they are widely shared and adopted, leading to rapid, growth. Finally, in the third, stabilization phase these technologies and practices become embedded in daily life as the new normal. S-curves work in both directions. The rise in innovative technologies and practices aligned with the SDGs would be mirrored by a decline in unsustainable technologies, institutions and practices. This reverse S-curve has three corresponding phases: destabilization, breakdown and phase-out.
For example, the rise of renewable energy systems or electrified transport, is being matched by the decline of fossil-fuel energy and internal combustion vehicles. Similarly, the rise of sustainable agricultural systems and dietary practices will be accompanied by a decline in conventional, unsustainable agriculture and diets. Policy makers can intervene along both of these curves – using different levers to overcome impediments and support positive options while also destabilizing and breaking down unsustainable configurations.
Chapter explores and explores new relationships and equilibriums – based on science that is multidisciplinary, equitably and inclusively produced, openly shared, widely trusted and embraced, and “socially robust”—relevant to society.
AN INCLUSIVE model of Science-Policy-Society Interface
A few decades ago, the “science-policy interface,” or points of interaction between scientific knowledge and the policy-making process, primarily involved experts in individual scientific disciplines – usually in the Global North, predominantly male and in mid- to late-career. These individuals spoke to career policymakers, demographically similar people working in government, economics, and law. This interface fed into a four-stage policy formulation cycle: agenda-setting, policy formulation, implementation, and review. Within this largely linear sequence, policy makers expressed their priorities to the science community who responded with factual information and advice.
For achieving sustainable development in the 21st Century, however, the interactions will need to be far more multi-directional and multi-disciplinary, expanded to address complex and interlinked challenges and goals. This requires an inclusive model of ‘science-policy- society interface’ (Figure 4-1). Recognizing this, the international community has created platforms through which scientists, policymakers, and knowledge brokers can interact and capitalize on the latest information. These include the Montreal Protocol for the ozone layer (1987), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (1988), and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (2012).584 2523
Between 2013 and 2018, the per capita gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD) was four times higher in high-income countries than the average for other countries, and as a proportion of GDP was more than twice as high (Figure 4-5). Ten countries account for 80 per cent of spending. In addition, over this period, in low and lower-middle income countries GERD as a percentage of GDP decreased. As a result, more than 70 per cent of the world’s population are served by relatively small research and development (R&D) system, with clear implications for developing solutions that can advance context-specific SDG implementation in the Global South. This also means that countries in the Global South may often lack the capacity to absorb or adapt technological advances developed elsewhere.
There have been severe inequalities around vaccine production and distribution, such that high-income countries had the first access to vaccines and were administering boosters before residents of other countries had received first or second doses. In addition, COVID- 19 has exacerbated inequities in R&D funding. Donors have used some overseas development assistance R&D funds for work on COVID-19 while other research activities have slipped. In a global pandemic, the large public research funders of the world would be expected to direct resources towards strengthening R&D capacities in low-income countries, too, and not leave this to development cooperation whose resources are already stretched.
Government pronouncements on the SDGs are generally sincere, but progress is limited by a lack of capacity, data limitations, existing trade-offs between goals and policies, incomplete understanding of economic or ecological processes, or by worry that a given action may be unsuccessful. And in some cases, the problems are so complex that even the formal scientific method based on testing hypotheses does not always capture the reality of ‘wicked’ problems; increments in knowledge do not necessarily reduce uncertainty.
For many countries, action for the SDGs can be impossible because of political unrest and conflict. The scientific evidence may be clear, but the way that it informs policy is often influenced by political and economic interests, public Bs, and even stages in the election cycles. Even when the weight of scientific evidence may be overwhelming, the necessary actions are fraught with political and technical complexities—as is the case when a well- developed global process such as IPCC has not resulted in full-scale transformation. Despite all of the available scientific evidence that characterizes the risk of drastically endangering the current status quo, we have not fully addressed the global carbon footprint. We are not on track to stay “Below 1.5 C”.
For today, we will focus on the First Call to Action theme.