SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS OF THE UNITED NATIONS (SDGS) – The SDGs illustrate our challenges and provide us with opportunities to make a real difference – if we dare! The SDGs are the most ambitious strategic and practical plan for our planet to date. A plan which provides us with a lens through which we are able to translate global needs and ambitions into societal and business solutions. The SDG plan is a coherent catalogue containing ideas as to how we may make a transition towards a more sustainable world to live in and make sure that our planet is in great shape for future generations. In short – an especially in an ENCORE context – we have to improve our environmental footprints and rethink how we are doing business. And it fits very well with the Encore conference focus on the three themes: How do we promote circular economy; how do we reduce and prevent climate change and how do we create resilient ecosystems. Source: www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material Briefly: The previous Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) from 2000-2015 put forth an ambitious agenda to lift people out of poverty. With the Sustainable Development Goals – 17 goals and 169 targets, world leaders are focusing on a broader agenda for the world from 2015-2030: a set of universal goals to engage countries at all income levels to ensure the long-term well-being of humankind. The development goals expand the themes – and focus in particular on climate and production as there is a new awareness concerning the interdependency between the old themes and the environment. In other words, while the MDGs aimed to lift people out of poverty, the SDGs aim to keep them out of poverty by ensuring that development is both socially and environmentally sustainable. Everybody must take responsibility and change their way of living for a more sustainable future. Enterprises like Novozymes and IKEA, as we heard at the ENCORE conference, are using the goals as a driver for innovation, a tool for dialogue with stakeholders, consumers and politicians as well as a strategic guide and practical framework to embrace sustainable production and consumption. Politicians, NGOs and citizens are aware that in our efforts to transform our society, we must take in to account that the goals and the 169 targets are integrated and indivisible. A key feature of the 2030 agenda is the integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and the interlinkages existing within and across the goals 4
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