(ZY.4.27) Sustainable Development [New] If the world radically changes course to more sustainable development, protecting areas that are most critical for biodiversity and ecosystem services, the global annual GDP could grow $11 billion by 2050. [New] An oceans treaty will be agreed, biodiversity targets announced, it's the first opportunity for nations to increase their climate goals, and the start of the decade to scale action for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. [New] African governments are halfway through the First Ten-Year Implementation Plan (2014-2023) of the African Union's Agenda 2063, and have 10 years left to achieve the globally agreed 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The United Nations estimates that achieving its sustainable development goals for issues including poverty, clean water and gender equality by 2030 will require as much as $7 trillion a year, with an annual funding shortfall of $2.5 trillion in developing countries. Coordination of sustainable development policies, including the implementation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, which aims to make Morocco's economy green and inclusive by 2030. In the long-term, World Energy Outlook 2018 - which included a special focus on electricity - sees variable renewables covering more than 20% of global power demand by 2040 in the central New Policies Scenario, and nearly 40% in the Sustainable Development Scenario. The sustainable development scenario in the World Energy Outlook 2017 of the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that global energy demand from coal will decline up to 41% by 2040. If the multiple co-benefits associated with closing the emissions gap are fully realized, the required transition will contribute in an essential way to achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Without intervention, 50 countries will fail to achieve the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger by 2030. Italy will next year become the world's first country to make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study climate change and sustainable development. The effectiveness of the IEA Sustainable Development Scenario in limiting global temperature change to 2 degrees Celsius is dependent on global emissions trends through 2100, while IEA's current scenario only projects through 2040. The Global Chemicals Outlook II finds that the global goal to minimize adverse impacts of chemicals and waste will not be achieved by 2020. The SDS projects global energy-related CO2 emissions in 2040 at a level 50 percent lower than the IEA's New Policies Scenario, which projects emissions generally in line with the aggregation of national commitments under the Paris Agreement. If current trends continue, it is projected that $8.5 trillion will be transferred to families in developing countries over the 15-year life of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Universal and affordable access to electricity will empower millions of people around the world and their communities to enjoy a better life. The pace of poverty reduction is slowing down and current projections suggest that 6% of the world's population will still be living in extreme poverty in 2030, missing the target of the first Sustainable Development Goal. Antimicrobial resistance is putting the achievement of the UN's sustainable development goals in jeopardy - by 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty. If the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) are to be met by 2030, Africa will need the best of every form of agriculture including GE crops and crops made with CRISPR technology. A Code of Good Agricultural Practice on Ammonia is being prepared for Northern Ireland and will be published during 2019. Almost a third of the way to the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals, new UNESCO projections prepared for the UN High-level Political Forumshow that the world will fail its education commitments without a rapid acceleration of progress. In the last few months, several analyses have warned that less than three years into the Sustainable Development Goals era, the world could be veering off track in meeting all of the 17 goals by 2030. The sustainable development goals will not be universally achieved given the weak global response to climate change. See full forecast Last updated: 20 February 2020 Hi, Would you like a quick online demo of our service from an experienced member of our team? Yes No
