Ideas to Action:
Independent research for global prosperity
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
Goal 16 has the dubious distinction of being the most catalytic goal for sustainable development…and the most difficult to measure.
Expanding economic prosperity while avoiding dangerous climate change is perhaps the defining challenge of the 21st century. So I’m glad to see that the draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a goal for climate. But I’m puzzled by a pretty fundamental omission. While the draft SDGs list targets for adapting to climate change, and educating people about climate change, and even mobilizing serious money in response to climate change, there’s not actually a target for, ahem, preventing climate change.
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets
Target 9.1 discusses reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on access. It may be a good target to include specific mention of an under-addressed infrastructure need: roads. While access to transport is addressed in general terms in Goal 11, there is no specific mention of road access (as compared to other infrastructure including water, sanitation, electricity and telecommunications).
This week, World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch released new data showing that Indonesia’s deforestation rate declined significantly in 2013.[1] Based on satellite imagery analysis conducted by a team at the University of Maryland, Indonesia lost just over a million hectares of tree cover of in 2013, compared to double that the previous year.
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
Target 8.1 calls for rapid per capita economic growth. As this is a vital element of sustained progress on development, it is absolutely right that a comprehensive set of development goals include a growth target.
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
I love the proposed Sustainable Development Goal Seven. It says “Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”. Target 7.1 is even better: “By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.” Who could be against that?
Wow. Muhammadu Buhari’s clear victory over Goodluck Jonathan is huge for Nigeria—and for the continent. Jonathan’s speedy acceptance of the result was graceful and honorable.
The Obama administration released a remarkable set of decisions on Egypt policy yesterday which, if followed through and supported by Congress, could signal a dramatic shift for US-Egypt relations.
In July, countries will gather in Addis Ababa to adopt an agreement on Financing for Development (FFD). A recently issued “Zero Draft” for an Addis Ababa Accord lays out a framework that goes beyond looking at funding sources to reaffirm the goals, principles, challenges, and policies that are required to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
What areas in Africa have the most critical lack of data and what needs to be done about it? What lessons can be learned from existing data innovations in Africa? What other data revolution principles and concrete actions should Africa adopt? How do we reinforce the data capacity of African development actors?
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