Sustainable Development Goals

• [New] Reducing food waste and loss is the subject of SDG target 12.3, which calls to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses by 2030. IISD
• [New] The U.K. is the first nation to create a plan to achieve SDG 12.3' s target of reducing food loss and waste by 50% by 2030. S&P Global Platts
• [New] SDG 12 is to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, including a target (SDG 12.3) to halve - by 2030 - per capita food waste at the retail and consumer levels, while reducing food losses during production and supply. S&P Global Platts
• [New] Seaweed cultivation is now receiving increased interest from higher income countries as a nature-based solution to economic development, contributing greatly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). The Fish Site
• [New] The LSF is intended to provide international private investors seeking to invest in Africa with a robust framework and a diversified range of opportunities particularly in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. New Business Ethiopia
• [New] By prioritizing food redistribution in tandem with hunger alleviation, food banks help advance progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG Target 12.3, which aims to halve per capita global food waste and reduce food losses by 2030. The Global FoodBanking Network
• [New] Across the globe, governments have committed to meeting Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 target of halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reducing food losses along production and supply chains, including postharvest losses by 2030. Latest
• [New] Many countries are at risk of failing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for child survival by 2030 as a result. Stop Pneumonia / Every Breath Counts
• [New] Nigeria must invest at least $5.3 billion on WASH to achieve Sustainable Development Goals target by 2030. EnviroNews Nigeria -
• [New] The enhanced application of smart, digital, and precision technologies is critical for raising the agricultural productivity of smallholder farmers in developing countries and generating the rural transformation needed for achieving the SDGs by 2030. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• [New] Europe is investing on an unprecedented scale to achieve post-Covid recovery, meet ambitious digital targets for 2030 and deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals. European Business Summit
• [New] The Asia-Europe Foundation calculated that the total investment costs to achieve the SDGs by 2030 are between USD5 and USD 7 trillion per year at the global level and between a total of USD3.3 and USD 4.5 trillion per year in developing countries. Premium Times Nigeria
• [New] Africa still needs $256 billion a year until 2030 to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). THISDAYLIVE
• The world remains off track to achieve the sustainable development goals for water and sanitation, with nearly two billion people expected to still lack access to even basic water by 2030. U.S. Agency for International Development
• The Asia-Europe Foundation calculated (2020) that the total investment costs to achieve the SDGs by 2030 are between $5 and $7 trillion per year at the global level and between a total of $3.3 and $4.5 trillion per year in developing countries. trusttv.com
• ECO sees with increasing concern that many biodiversity and sustainable development goals could be severely compromised if certain unsustainable climate mitigation and land-based Carbon Dioxide Removal measures are deployed at a very large scale in the name of reaching net zero by 2050. CAN
• The global impact investing market - which has reached about $1 tn - is nowhere near the scale of finance needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 - estimated at $90 tn. Pioneers Post
• The new financing required to keep global warming to an increase of just 1.5 may be as high as US$ 8 trillion annually while the UN estimates that the funding gap to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 is US$ 2.5 trillion a year. London Business School
• In the short time remaining in this decade to leverage a sustainable and just transition, ambitious and effective NDCs are critical for the first Global Stocktake in 2023, and to maintain the possibility of achieving the Paris goals and SDGs. Food and Land Use Coalition
• Ireland will work with its international partners to ensure that climate action remains a major policy priority, in recognition of the grave threat climate change poses to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals globally. Department of Finance
• The UN is urging countries to commit to enhancing inclusive and sustainable urbanization by 2030 as part of its Sustainable Development Goals. GIM International
• The Caribbean and the world have committed to the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 to reduce premature mortality due to breast cancer by a third by 2030. www.carpha.org

Last updated: 05 December 2021