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This policy brief looks at how to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need to reconfirm the commitments of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focused on human well-being by alleviating poverty, enhancing food and water security, and improving health. But they must also address issues of earth-system governance and the challenge of redirecting the unsustainable practices of individuals, groups and countries worldwide.
This policy brief, the first in a new series published under the United Nations University Project on Sustainability Transformation Beyond 2015 (POST2015), argues for a multi-layered approach encompassing global goals to maintain planetary-scale processes in a safe, just and sustainable space; individual goals and targets framed in such a way that they can serve as focal points for a wide range of stakeholders; targets framed in global terms but tailored for regional, national, local or corporate/organizational levels; and indicators and monitoring capabilities with the capacity to track change and report on progress. These should include monitoring the key aspects of earth system transformation.
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