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EU’s sustainable growth platform to implement UN Sustainable Development Goals

Eugene Eteris, RSU/BC, Riga, 13.10.2017.Print version
European Commission appointed 30 members to a new high-level multi-stakeholder platform to follow up implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved at the end of 2015 in the European sustainable economy.

The Platform was created through an open selection process; it will support and advise the European Commission on implementing the SDGs in the EU member states. Besides, the Platform will provide a forum for exchange of best practice at local, regional, national and EU level. 


Platform for implementing SDGs in Europe

The creation of the Platform was announced in the Commission’s Communication as another steps towards sustainable European future, which was adopted on 22 November 2016, more than a year since SDGs’ adoption in October 2015.

 

The subsequent selection process for the Platform, launched by the Commission on 22 May 2017 sought an inclusive and balanced stakeholder representation, including civil society, non-governmental organisations and the private and corporate sector, and covering the social, economic and environmental as well as the internal and external policy dimensions of sustainable development.

 

The members all have proven and relevant competence and experience, including at European level, in areas relevant to one or more of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. They have also demonstrated commitment to sustainable development. The list of members and all other relevant documents, including the agendas, the minutes and the participants' submissions, will be made available via the Commission's Register of Expert Groups.

 

The 17 Development Goals and their 169 associated targets are global in nature, universally applicable and interlinked. All countries, developed and developing alike, have a shared responsibility to achieve the Development Goals.

 

Commission’s first Vice-President Frans Timmermans commented on Platform’s creation (12 October 2017) saying that building sustainable future in Europe need’s active “work from the grassroots up, using knowledge and skills of a wide range of stakeholders”. The Commission will cooperate closely with the Platform’s experts in order to develop “the SDGs vision and the tools” need to succeed in delivering on the SDGs. The Platform will be chaired by the First Vice-President of the Commission.

 

Another Commission’s Vice-President Jyrki Katainen added that circular economy and sustainable finances are examples of the innovative European way to ensure growth and investment that do not harm the planet or people, in all economy’s sectors. The launch of the Platform, he argued, is another milestone in the road to delivering feasible results. 


Two “work- streams” in implementing SDGs in Europe

The Platform will make an important contribution to the Commission's Reflection Paper “Towards a sustainable Europe by 2030”, which was announced in the Letter of Intent on the Commission’s 2018 Work Programme. This Reflection Paper is both a follow-up of the Sustainable Development Goals and is becoming an integral part of the Future of Europe debate. It will also capture the follow up to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the on-going work on resilience and innovation.

 

The EU’s implementation of the UN-2030 Global Agenda follows two “work- streams”: the first is aimed at integrating all pertinent SDGs both into the European policy framework and into current Commission priorities. A second “work-track” will aimed at launching a reflection work on further developing the EU’s longer-term vision and will focus on SDGs implementation in the sectoral policies after 2020.  

 

More information on: = List of Stakeholder Platform Members; = Commission Communication next steps for a sustainable European future; = Sustainable Development Goals; = Letter of Intent on the 2018 Commission Work Programme.

Source: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3922_en.htm?locale=en


See also our magazine’s publications on SDG and circular economy in 2016-17:

- Sustainable development: implementation through the EU and UN efforts. 15.06.2016. In:

http://www.baltic- course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=122153&underline=Sustainable+development   

- Climate Action in Support of a Sustainable World. 21.09.2016. In:

http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/modern_eu/?doc=124211&ins_print;

- Sustainable and low-carbon future in the Baltics. 14.11.2016. In: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/modern_eu/?doc=125467&ins_print; - Sustainability becomes the Union’s priority. 25.11.2016. In:

http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/modern_eu/?doc=125742&ins_print;  

-Health for all at every stage of life: SDGs in practice. 22.02.2017. In:

http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/modern_eu/?doc=127808&ins_print;

-Circular economy: new political economy guidelines. 04.08.2017. In:

http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/editors_note/?doc=18227&ins_print

- Delivering on European Circular Economy Action Plan: the EU’s results for 2017. 12.09.2017.

In: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/good_for_business/?doc=133112&ins_print






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