Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires integration across science, policy and governance; monitoring and reporting; and public engagement
Fully integrated and complex Focus on fundamental drivers of change Managing trade-offs and synergies
Sound knowledge
Robust statistics and indicators
Effective governance
Integrated policies and
actions
Data, indicators and information
• Indicators – multipurpose, scalable, transparent, integrity of source and easily communicated
• Outcome oriented - embedding sustainable development outcomes into all activities and partnerships
• Turning ideas into action - providing insights and
evidence on policy effectiveness
• Reporting on progress - ensuring high quality data, indicators and inputs are publicly available.
Knowledge System Elements
Energy INNOVATION
Air Quality
3.7m deaths due to
outdoor air pollution
4.3m premature deaths
deaths due to indoor air pollution
annually
Blueprints
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NO2 SO2
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UN System of Environmental Economic and Ecosystems Accounting and Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
Natural resources Ecosystems
Economicassets (SNA)
Non-economicassets
Opening
stocks
Opening stocks Opening
State
SNA
transactions
and otherflows
Changes in
stocks
Changes
in stocks
Economic
activities,
natural
processes,etc.
Changes
in state
Closing stocks Closing
stocks
Closing
state
Described in SNA
Volume 1
The SNA satellite accounts for the
environment
expenditure, taxes, hybrid accounts, physical flows,
sub-soil, energy, water, land, economic assets depletion
Volume 2
Ecosystem capital
accounts
Ecosystem stocks and quality, ecosystem
services, benefits and maintenance costs…
Negative feedbacks of ecosystem degradation on production and
wellbeing
Impacts on ecosystem capacity of delivering services/benefits
A CHANGING WORLD Temperature increases, sea-level rise, ocean acidification, changing seasons, new rainfall patterns
WIDESPREAD OBSERVED IMPACTS
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VULNERABLE STATES
threatened by sea level rise
and extreme events
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UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS
WATER QUALITY
90% wastewater in developing
countries flows untreated into
rivers, lakes and the sea
Land Use
23% of global soils are degraded
UNSUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
higher costs
lock-in carbon infrastructure