Sustainable Development Goals

• [New] If other emerging markets do not learn from the mistakes made in Mexico, it may endanger the Sustainable Development Goals and undermine global efforts to mitigate climate change.
• [New] The ongoing pandemic's effects should remind all stakeholders that agriculture must be gender transformative if there is any chance for sub-Saharan Africa to achieve zero hunger by 2030 as per goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• [New] The global community can still not measure progress against 68% of the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, although 10-20% of decarbonization goals could be met through digital technologies and ICT solutions can help cut 9.7 times more CO2 than they emit.
• [New] The BLOC Smart Africa Fund will go a long way in bridging the financing gap between seed and growth stage for hundreds of businesses and in particular start-ups in Africa, emerging and frontier markets, and is the first-of-its-kind dedicated to helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
• [New] India has committed itself as a stakeholder to End Hunger (Goal 2) by 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• [New] The focal issue that Thai energy businesses should focus on is to achieve sustainable development goals (SDG) by 2050.
• [New] The Edison alliance will prioritise digital inclusion as a platform of partners with a common purpose for achieving the sustainable development goals.
• [New] Switzerland has committed itself to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 by adopting the 2030 Agenda.
• Considering the critical uncertainties, factors that are crucial for Thai energy businesses to achieve sustainable development goals by 2050 can be categorized into two groups.
• Rapid action is needed to make meaningful progress on reducing emissions and also ensuring progress towards lifting living standards and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
• Under the SPS, PM2 - 5 concentrations decrease for all countries and could be 73% lower on average in 2040 than for existing concentrations if the targets of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals are met.
• The world pledged to end extreme poverty, ensure universal health care, and provide education for all children by 2030; countries would decarbonize the world's energy system to head off the dire risks of human-induced climate change.
• All development banks should align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals by 2024, and help mobilize private finance and investment through guarantees and partnerships.
• The EDISON Alliance will prioritize digital inclusion as a platform of partners with a common purpose for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The use of EO within Africa will be directly relevant to SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure), SDG 11, SDG 13, SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 15 (life on land).
• Recovery measures to address the short - and medium-term socio-economic consequences will determine whether the EU moves towards a sustainable development model by 2030 or instead entrenches unsustainable development pathways.
• The Ceres2030 project has shown the urgent need for additional investments - a yearly average of $14 billion from donors and $19 billion from low-income countries for the next decade - to meet Sustainable Development Goal 2, ending hunger by 2030, and to build more sustainable food security.
• With less than a decade left to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals - which aim, among other things, to protect the planet and end poverty by 2030 - the next nine years will be critical in making the world a more sustainable place.
• Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the Asia-Pacific region required an additional annual investment of $1.5 tn to achieve the SDGs by 2030, a figure equivalent to about 5% of their combined GDP.
• Last year, UNAIDS proposed a new set of bold HIV targets for 2025 in order to get the HIV response back on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
• Only about US$ 25.5 billion was committed in 2017 at the UN Ocean Conference, about one-sixth of what is required for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 14, 'Life Below Water', by 2030.
• 2020's joint report analyses for the first time financial commitments to off-grid renewables technologies in developing markets, as they can bring the world closer to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 on universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030.

Last updated: 21 February 2021