Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains insufficient and uneven, underscoring the need for integrated, transformative action.
To help accelerate progress and shape an ambitious post-2030 Agenda, the Integrated Sustainability Centre (ISC) will focus on three priority areas.
ISC will promote nature-positive solutions, co-benefits, and nexus approaches and advance them through high-level platforms such as the G7/G20, High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD), and United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). A key output will be a regional synergies report for the Asia-Pacific.
2) Supporting Just TransitionsIGES will enhance support for just transitions to ensure inclusive and equitable outcomes for youth, seniors, women, and vulnerable groups. This work includes mainstreaming just transitions into SDG implementation as well as promoting education for sustainable development (ESD).
3) Advancing bottom-up approachISC will advance a bottom-up approach that combines evidence-based research, capacity building, and knowledge generation to co-design and localise integrated actions, including the circulating and ecological sphere (CES) and water-energy-food-climate nexus. In addition, ISC will examine how localised models can be scaled up, creating local-to-global feedback loops that drive transformation changes to unsustainable systems and address diverse sustainability challenges in Asia.
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