¶ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, also known as Agenda 2030, is a set of international policy guidelines described through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is an initiative led by the United Nations and supported by organizations around the world, including the United Nations Foundation.
¶ History
On October 21, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly published "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development."[1]
On June 13, 2019, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF) signed a “Strategic Partnership Framework outlining areas of cooperation to deepen institutional engagement and jointly accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”[2]
In April 2021, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on behalf of the Government of Canada to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45% below 2005 levels by the year 2030, an acceleration of previously announced goals.[3] As the Trudeau government put further pressure on the agriculture industry in July 2022 to rapidly reduce their fertilizer use by 30%, farmers sounded the alarm, warning of worsening food shortages and huge economic losses (estimated at $10.4 billion CAD over the course of the decade).[4]
The Government of the Netherlands announced near-identical cuts in nitrogen emissions through reduction of fertilizer, radical reductions of livestock, as well as a reduction in intensive farming and the conversion to sustainable “green farms.”[5] In the government's own proposal, they acknowledge an estimated 11,200 farms would be forced to close and another 17,600 farmers would have to cull a significant amount of their livestock.[6] As a result, protests erupted outside Dutch parliament in The Hague, with reports of fire, manure and blockades contributing to unrest.
¶ External links
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (2015, October 21). United Nations General Assembly. https://web.archive.org/web/20210315191438/https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N15/291/89/PDF/N1529189.pdf?OpenElement ↩︎
Tedeneke, A. (2019, June 13). World Economic Forum and UN Sign Strategic Partnership Framework. World Economic Forum. http://archive.today/2023.01.07-201341/https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/06/world-economic-forum-and-un-sign-strategic-partnership-framework/ ↩︎
Bolongaro, K. (2021, April 22). Trudeau Vows to Speed Up Emissions Cuts for Canada, a G7 Laggard. Bloomberg. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216072753/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/trudeau-vows-to-speed-up-emissions-cuts-for-canada-a-g7-laggard#xj4y7vzkg ↩︎
Skerritt, J. (2022, July 27). Trudeau Spars With Farmers on Climate Plan Risking Grain Output. Bloomberg. http://archive.today/2022.07.29-092925/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/trudeau-spars-with-farmers-on-climate-plan-cutting-fertilizer-grain-output ↩︎
Holligan, A. (2022, July 29). Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts. BBC News. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729031715/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335287urope-62335287 ↩︎
Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit Ministerie van Landbouw. (2022, June 10). Onontkoombare transitie naar een vitaal landelijk gebied. Rijksoverheid. http://archive.today/2022.07.05-142059/https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/06/10/onontkoombare-transitie-naar-een-vitaal-landelijk-gebied ↩︎