High level Policy Dialogue on the Strategic Regional Partnership for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific Committee on Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Development, Third session, Bangkok, 1 3 December 2015 Uchita de Zoysa Global Sustainability Solutions Centre for Environment & Development Peoples Sustainability Treaties Tel: +94 11 2768459 Mobile:+94777372206 Email:uchita@sltnet.lk Web: www.glossolutions.com
SD Agenda & the Historical Context of Partnerships 1972 Stockholm UN Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) 1992 Rio de Janeiro UN Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED/ Earth Summit) 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) 2012 Rio de Janeiro UN Conference on Sustainable Development UNCSD / Rio+20) P o s T 2 0 1 5 1972 1982 1992 2002 2012 Civil Society WCED (1987) Observers to Major Groups Watch dogs to issue makers Lobbyists to thematic experts Business & Industry Outsiders to insiders Donors to Financiers Supporters to Agenda Setters 2030 Agenda for SD: Government, Business & UN partnerships have been scripted Civil continues to struggles to find equitable partnership People yet to know about the SDGs CSD(19912 2012) Transformation calls for a new generation of partnerships UNFCCC MDG (2000 2015) HLPF (2012) Last Chance to save the earth Maurice Strong, 1992
Growth Economics Problem or Solution? Greed at the centre and guided by endless and mindless economic growth, our governance systems have been harnessing an inequitable development model. Partnerships have been made against society and nature rather than for the wellbeing of either. Can people lay their trust in a system of marginalization and exploitation to guide us towards prosperity, wellbeing & happiness? Can we rely on a failed system now to lead the transformation? greed and envy demand continuous and limitless economic growth of a material kind, without proper regard for conservation, and this type of growth cannot possibly fit into a finite environment. E.F. Shumacher
2030 Agenda Call for a Breakaway from the Trap Governance systems have become slaves of serving an economic growth based development model and society has been deconstructed to serve it. While a small section of the population extracts the benefits of this system, a large portion of society is placed in extreme vulnerability from poverty to climate destitution. An emerging consumption class that has found its way in this exploitation methodology, now is placing extreme pressure on the planet and where will we end? Transformation must mean a different contractual partnership on earth!
If SDGs are to become the accepted global transformation pathway, then the world will be fast tracking the ideological aspiration of sustainability and creating a phenomenal shift away from the dominant development model based on greed, growth and inequality. o o o Are SDGs the Transformation? Transformation in the world views and values that shape the organizing principles of human society. New ways of human solidarity and affinity with nature. A dramatic re emphasis on the idea of a decent quality of life for all must prevail.
The Necessary Transformation Changing the Centre Social Equity Social Equity Sustainability Economic Prosperity Environmental Sustainability Economic Prosperity Environmental Sustainability Prof. Stiglitz: It is time for our statistics system to put more emphasis on measuring the well being of the population than on economic production. Sarkozy Commissioned Report on Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, 2009) Current world order consumerism, individualism, anthropocentrism Transformation: equity within generations, equity across generations, and equity between humans and nature Sustainable world order quality of life, human solidarity, ecocentrism
UN/ESCAP Role: Regional Roadmap for SD Provide an integrated approach to the SDGs; not to fragment them and provide linier achievements in a reporting scorecard. Provide political vision for transformation; making national leadership confident in prosperity through SD transformation. Provide strategic directions for key interventions; ways and means of moving into a new generation of policy regimes, institutional mechanisms, financing models, partnerships and engagement modalities, and support mechanisms Provide guidelines and tool for implementation; developing composite indexes to make the goals, targets, indicators usable in national project planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
Composite Index towards Facilitating the Transformation
A Peoples Agenda: A New Social Economic Environmental Contract This is the People's Agenda, a plan of action for ending poverty in all its dimensions, irreversibly, everywhere, and leaving no one behind. It seeks to ensure peace and prosperity, and forge partnerships with people and planet at the core. Ban Ki moon, United Nations Secretary General, 2 August 2015 Engaging all stakeholders; leave no one behind Forging Mindful Partnerships: not just the convenient partners Accept transformation; not business as usual and in the comfort zone A new way forward; a new generation of partnerships required