From summits to solutions : innovations in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
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From summits to solutions : innovations in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Brookings Institution Press, c2018
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Other editors: Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen ""Sustainable Development Goals,"" to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals-in such areas as education and health car -is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them. But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all nations.
In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume is the product of that effort.
The book approaches the UN's goals through three broad lenses.
The first considers new approaches to capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds, practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities, benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving.
The second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial information generated by satellites.
The third lens focuses on updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and development finance evolve.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Need for Innovations to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals
Part I. Capturing Value
2. Expanding Women's Economic Opportunities
3. From Green Bonds to Sustainable Development: The Case of Nigeria
4. Collective Action on Business Standards, Goals, and Metrics to Achieve Scale and Impact for the SDGs
5. Professionalizing Cross-Sector Collaboration to Implement the SDGs
6. Building Sustainable Financing Architecture to Achieve the SDGs: The Case of Brazil
Part II. Targeting Places
7. Making Rural Areas Places of Opportunity: Not Just a "Rural Agenda"
8. Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development
9. Enhancing Statistical Capacity for Development
10. Rescaling Government for an Urban Future
11. Protecting Half the Ocean?
Part III. Updating Governance
12. A Canadian North Star: Crafting an Advanced Economy Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals
13. A People's Agenda: Citizen Participation and the SDGs
14. Safeguarding Our Global Commons
15. Unity in Diversity: Reshaping the Global Health Architecture
16. Crowding-In Private Finance: What Multilateral Banks Can Do Differently
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Index
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