New York 13 July 2017: As the SDG 17 is under review today at the HLPF 2017, civil society groups express their concern for the inadequacy of the combined MoI/AAAA framework to match the ambition of the 2030 Agenda. The worrying slogan of ‘making the business case for sustainable development’, clearly exemplifies how private finance, rather than public policies and investments, is being portrayed as the fundamental key to SDG implementation, says the Spotlight Report, a comprehensive independent assessment released [...]
SDG 17
Global spotlight report challenges the notion that “trillions of private finance” are needed to advance SDG implementation.
Global Spotlight Report warns against risks of Public-Private Partnerships
New York, 13 July 2017: Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), usually portrayed as a useful tool towards sustainable development, actually “involve disproportionate risks and costs for people and the public purse”, claims a global coalition of civil society organizations and trade unions in the Spotlight Report 2017 launched earlier this week.
Global Spotlight Report says SDG2 is only achievable if present food systems change towards agroecological diversification and food sovereignty.
New York, 12 July 2017: SDG2 ‘end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, articulates one of the highest aspirations of the 2030 Agenda. Failure to advance it will significantly affect the entire agenda, claims the Spotlight report, a comprehensive independent assessment released in New York on the opening day of the High Level Political Forum 2017.
New independent Spotlight report points out that women´s lower wages and poorer labor conditions have resulted in unfair advantages for corporations
New York, 12 July 2017: Corporate power threatens women´s human rights by promoting a race to the bottom in labour standards and avoiding taxes in the countries where profits are obtained, concludes the report Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017, in its analysis of the fifth Sustainable Development Goal which promises to achieve gender equality by 2030 and empower all women and girls.
Global Spotlight Report says that the Agenda 2030 proposal to eradicate poverty by 2030 is achievable but tax policies need to change.
New York, 11 July 2017: “The promise made by governments to eradicate poverty by 2030 is doable if countries cooperate to fight tax evasion and capital flights” argues an independent report submitted to the High Level Political Forum of the United Nations as an input to its debate today around the first of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017
New York, 10 July 2017: A global coalition of civil society organizations and trade unions presents today the report Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017. It is published on the opening day of the High Level Political Forum at the United Nations in New York. The report provides the most comprehensive independent assessment of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017
Privatization, partnerships, corporate capture and their impact on sustainability and inequality - assessments and alternatives
In the 2030 Agenda governments committed to a revitalized Global Partnership between States and declared that public finance has to play a vital role in achieving the SDGs. But in recent decades, the combination of neoliberal ideology, corporate lobbying, business-friendly fiscal policies, tax avoidance and tax evasion has led to a massive weakening of the public sector and its ability to provide essential goods and [...]
Reclaiming policies for the public
Einladung zur Vorab-Präsentation
Referent: Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum (GPF)
Discussant: Palesa Mokomele, National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa
Mit der Agenda 2030 und ihren globalen Zielen für nachhaltige Entwicklung (SDGs) haben sich alle Regierungen der Welt verpflichtet, ihre Politik konsequent an ökologischen, sozialen und menschenrechtlichen Kriterien auszurichten. Viele halten dazu die Abkehr von einer Politik des business as usual für unerlässlich. Zugleich setzen zahlreiche Regierungen aber weiterhin auf die Politikrezepte der Vergangenheit, indem sie Partnerschaften mit [...]
Eine Bilanz von vier Jahren Schwarz-Rot
LobbyControl veröffentlicht seinen Lobbyreport 2017 und zieht eine Bilanz der schwarz-roten Regierung. Der Report kommt zu dem ernüchternden Ergebnis, dass die große Koalition in den letzten Jahren viele wichtige Reformen im Bereich Lobbyismus und Einflussnahme verschleppt hat.
UN report paints a highly partial picture of SDG implementation
By Kate Donald, Director of CESR's Rights in Sustainable Development program
Last week, the UN published the 2017 ‘SDG Progress Report’, intended to provide a global overview of the current situation of the 2030 Agenda in advance of the High-Level Political Forum (where States will gather in New York to report on their SDG implementation). The report presents stark evidence – not of SDG progress, sadly, but of the glaring gaps and flaws in the way such progress is [...]