Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Europe

Brussels, 12 November 2015

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Andrea Innamorati

Senior Policy AdvisorDirectorate General for Sustainable Development,

Environmental Damage, European Union and International Affairs

Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

1. Adoption of the 2030 Agenda: what have we achieve d?

2. Are we ready?

3. Challenges and opportunities

4. The Way Forward

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1. Adoption of the 2030 Agenda: what have we achieve d?

Milestone global agreement

a) Long journey - inclusive and transparent process; MDGs (top down proposal – telescope approach)

SDGs (bottom up + IGN – mirror approach)

a) Completed Rio+20 : Sustainable development at the center of the village and completed the follow up

(UNEA, HLPF, 10YFP, SDGs, Agenda 2030)

a) Convergence, coherence and integration of different processestowards 2030 Agenda (environment and developmentcooperation; SDG-FfD; ENV/FAC co-leading – Council

Conclusions: GAC adoption)

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Adoption of the 2030 Agenda: what have we achieved?

Milestone global agreement

•“Title of the Agenda” , strongly supported by MATTM, integrated and balanced convergence of different processes in a nutshe ll

•“ Preamble ”, no more silos – conjugated through the 5Ps (People, Prosperity, Planet, Peace and Partnership)

•“ Political Declaration ”, “call for action” – declines the SDGs in political commitments

•“ SDGs and Targets ” 17 SDGs and 169 relevant targets: sets the challenge ahead of us, providing us with the “what”

•“ Means of Implementation ”, global partnership for SD, SDG 17 and relevant targets and AAAA, providing us with the “ho w”

•“ Follow up and Review ” on three levels through the HLPF (ECOSOC/UNGA) and the SDG indicators

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Adoption of the 2030 Agenda: what have we achieved?

Milestone global agreement

•“Sustainable development” at the centre of the villag e

• 5 years to achieve and now biggest challenge in imp lementing 2030 Agenda is to ensure that we fully reflect the centr ality of sustainable

development in policy making at all levels

Sustainable development

Social policies

Economic policies

Environmental policiesGovernance

Development cooperation

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Are we ready?

It took a long journey, now we need do move from in spirational commitments to the hard task of implementation at e very level.

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Are we ready?

SDGs: are the rich countries ready? (Bertelsmann report)

The 2030 Agenda calls on developed and developing countries to take action

European region: lack of social coherence and the environmental footprint of production and

consumption

According to our strength and weaknesses we are all sustainably developing countries

The 2030 agenda is the opportunity to put us on track around common objectives

To achieve SDGs means making substantial changes in how we live on Earth. (SCP)

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Challenges and opportunities

Governance

• Ensure effective internal and external action?

• Europe 2020 and EU SDS (also thematic strategies)

• Jumbo meetings• Participation of stakeholders

Integration

• No prioritizing SDGs but finding a way to address them all

• Not only: vertical and horizontal integration

• Structural components of the Agenda (political, SDGs, MoI, FuR)

Universality

• Each country and every level of governance

• SD no longer marginal, but integrated in every sector

• Common global goals we are all responsible for

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Challenges and opportunities

What is the current implementing structure at EU le vel?

Where do we start from?

Europe 2020 Strategy (growth, productivity,

employment and sustainability)

Greening Semester

Circular Economy package(December 2015)

EU SDS

EU SCP/IPP Action Plan And various others

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Challenges and opportunities

What are the necessary transformational changes in economy and society and the main policy areas to be addressed by European gover nments?

What our the instruments we can use and how to coor dinate them?

Agenda 2030

Europe 2020 Strategy

Greening Semester

Circular Economy package

EU SDS

EU SCP/IPP Action Plan

And various others

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How to promote them?

Need to preserve the political momentum and allow f or it to spread to different sectors and permeate decision making and action at all levels in a coordinated

and coherent manner.

2015 seminal year for global Sustainable Developme nt

2015 Seminal year Sustainable

Development

Addis Ababa Action Agenda

Agenda 2030COP 21

(we all hope)

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How to promote them?

2016 we need to translate our global commitments in to action at EU and national level

“Let us make hay while the sun shines”

Greening EU Semester

Council Conclusions October 2014

Revision EU 2020

Ensure balanced integration of 3 SD

pillars

Inclusion of Circular economy and efficient use of natural resources

principles in the annual planning of economic policies (growth and

employment)

Integrate SDGs and the 2030 Agenda in

EU policies

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Way forward

In translating the inspirational commitments into p ractice, we need to make sure to not lower the ambitions that guided us in develo ping the 2030 Agenda.

Inte

rnat

iona

l •Governance

•UN Delivering as One

•UN Fit for Purpose

•Follow up and Review

• HLPF/ECOSOC/GA

•SDG Indicators

•UNECE Regional Contribution

•UNECE RIMs

Eur

opea

n •Implementation 2030 Agenda

•EU 2020

• European Semester

•EU SDS

•Governance

•Vertical and horizontal

•Open and participatory process

Nat

iona

l • Implementation Internal/External action

•Development Cooperation Inter-institutional and multi-stakeholder platform

•Sustainable development strategy / Green Act

•Governance

•Vertical and horizontal process

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2030 Agenda Sustainable

Development

Long term vision (2030/2050) vs short term action

Vertical coordination:

need to achieve complimentary roles through

clear and mixed competences

Develop mechanisms to promote horizontal

coordination: break the silos

FuR(voluntary/mandat

ory qualitative/quantit

ative)

Way forward•We need to step out of our comfort zone and

translate the transformational

changes into long term political planning and

identify short term actions (Timmermans,

Sept. 2015)

•Potential 2030 Agenda is huge and the impacts

already affecting different levels

•Keep the political momentum high: it took

us years to put sustainable development

at the center of the village

•Let us not loose this great achievement

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Andrea Innamorati

Senior Policy Advisor

Directorate General for Sustainable Development, Environmental Damage, European Union

and International AffairsMinistry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy