Agenda 2030 as a Global Framework also for Municipalities

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LAG21 Closing Event 

Agenda 2030 as a Global Framework also for Municipalities

GNK NRW, Agenda 2030 as a Global Framework also for Municipalities

As part of LAG21’s Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW (GNK NRW) Closing Event, Jens Martens from Global Policy Forum addressed the relevance of Agenda 2030 as a guiding framework, not only on the state and regional, but also on the local level. In order to implement Agenda 2030 on the local level, individual SDG indicators need to be determined and subsequently monitored. In the process, networking and knowledge sharing between municipalities can help to accelerate the progress among them and upstream information sharing inform the state and country level. In the end Martens proposes six key areas of activities to overcome four future challenges he identifies to localize SDGs.

Speaker

  • Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum

 

Localizing Agenda 2030

Best-Practice Sharing

4 Challenges to Implement Agenda 2030

  1. Overcoming Niche-Dilemma – forwarding Climate Adaptation Mainstreaming
  2. Securing Long-Term Financing [autocorrect messed smth up in the Tweet] – sustainable goals require sustainable budgets
  3. Resolving Conflicts of Goals/ Interests – breaking down silo thinking within institutions and stakeholders that have a stake at realizing SDGs requires all of them to act upon mutually agreed on indicators and having a common vision; bringing together goals one through three could mean, for example, introducing sustainability based cross-subsidization
  4. Promoting Change in Awareness – achieving Agenda 2030 is dependent on civic participation, and its realization a bottom-up process

For an example on challenge 3. Conflicts of Goals/ Interest, one hasn’t to look outside of Germany, just think about the discrepancy of economic significance of coal-mining vs. environmental sustainability requirements.

6 Key Areas of Activity for Municipalities

  1. Informing and Awareness Raising – make SDGs well known among the general public
  2. Local Networking – establish local sustainability-alliances
  3. Political Basis – Agenda 2030 based political decision-making on the local level – council orders
  4. Strategy – integrated local/ municipal sustainable development strategy
  5. Implementation – localize SDGs
  6. Monitoring – evaluate the realization of the SDGs

 

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