1. The Strategic Sustainable Development Plan (PEDS): the vehicle for implementing the SDGs in Cabo Verde

Ensuring alignment with the SDGs and with universal principles of human rights, the Strategic Sustainable Development Plan (PEDS 2017-2021) constitutes the main vehicle for Cabo Verde to fulfill the sustainable development agenda.

Bhutan’s Main Message for Voluntary National Review 2018

Introduction

The SDGs reflect Australia’s values and belief in a ‘fair go’.

The Republic of Armenia is presenting its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development this July.

SDG era in Albania started based on a long and successful experience of eradicating extreme poverty and reducing the risk of social exclusion, ensuring high quality basic universal education and promoting gender equality and empowerment of women.

This position paper provides recommendations to address systemic concerns surrounding patriachal norms and other unequal structures, including the current economic model, which leads to: climate change and ecological degradation, militarization and conflict, unjust ecosystem, financial, trade and investment governance, corporate capture and wealth concentration, illicit financial flows, land and resource grabbing, to name only a few.

This document discusses how fostering resilience requires a holistic and integrated approach to the SDGs, catalyzing progress across the three pillars of sustainable development, addressing, for instance, climate change and protecting the environment and services it provides, the livelihood and structural challenges of changing demographics and technologies and realizing human rights and protections to all.

This document is a compilation of the executive summaries of the position papers on the theme of the high-level political forum, “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”, submitted by the various major groups and other relevant stakeholders that have autonomously established and maintained effective coordination mechanisms for participation in the high-level political forum on sustainable development, in accordance with Gen

At the Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, held in Bangkok from 28-30 March 2018, panellists reflected on the social, environmental and economic challenges to achieving sustainable development and on institutional responses that were being mainstreamed in the region to strengthen resilience to natural disasters and economic shocks, improve the livelihoods of vulnerable populations and ensure that no one was left behind.