SDG: Recent Episodes
Dominic Billings
A podcast about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 17 goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015.
SDG #3 is to “To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”Within SDG #3 are 13 targets, of which we here focus on Target 3.4:By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
SDG #3 is to “To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”
Within SDG #3 are 13 targets, of which we here focus on Target 3.2:
By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
SDG #3 is to “To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”
Within SDG #3 are 13 targets, of which we here focus on Target 3.1:
By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
Target 3.1 has two indicators:
Indicator 3.1.1: Maternal mortality ratio
Indicator 3.1.2: Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
SDG #2 is to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which we here focus on Target 2.c, which is “Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility.”
SDG #2 is to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which we here focus on Target 2.b, which is “Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round.”
SDG #2 is to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which we’ll here focus on Target 2.a, which is “Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries”
SDG #2 is to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which we’ll here focus on Target 2.5, which is: “By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.”
SDG #2 is to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which we here focus on Target 2.4, which is “By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.”
SDG #2 is to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which this episode will focus on Target 2.3, which is “By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.”
In this episode, we’re joined by Guilaume Lafortune, Vice President and director of the Paris office of the SDSN, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, under the auspices of the UN. Guillaume also coordinates, and is a co-author, of the SDSN’s Sustainable Development Report, published each year since 2016.
In this episode, we’re joined by Mick Hase, founder of SEVENTEENx.
SEVENTEENx are speaking events championing the SDGs to educate, engage and enable the business community to change the way of business, drawing on Mick’s own expertise as a business coach and management consultant, as well as an entrepreneur himself.
Inspiring change-makers from each city SEVENTEENx holds events has the opportunity, for 17 minutes each, to tell their story of impact and social outcomes relating to one of the SDGs, along with a Q&A panel of all speakers.
On November 10, the first SEVENTEENx event since the start of 2020 will be held, both live in Brisbane at QUT Business School, as well as online. Tickets can be found at the SEVENTEENx website.
Additionally, Mick Hase has his own podcast, titled ‘SEVENTEENx’, which you listen and subscribe to on Spotify and most podcast platforms.
Sustainable Development Goal #2 is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which this video will focus on Target 2.2, which is by 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
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Sustainable Development Goal #2 is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Within SDG #2 are eight targets, of which this video will focus on Target 2.1, which is by 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
Sustainable Development Goal #1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Within SDG #1 are 7 targets, of which this video will focus on Target 1.b, which is create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.
Sustainable Development Goal #1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Within SDG #1 are 7 targets, of which this video will focus on Target 1.a, which is ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions.
Sustainable Development Goal #1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Within SDG #1 are 7 targets, of which this video will focus on Target 1.5, which is by 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters.
Sustainable Development Goal #1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Within SDG #1 are 7 targets, of which this video will focus on Target 1.4, which is by 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
Sustainable Development Goal #1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Within SDG #1 are 7 targets, of which this video will focus on Target 1.3, which is implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.
Sustainable Development Goal #1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Within SDG #1 are 7 targets, of which this video will focus on Target 1.2, which is by 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
In this episode, we’re joined by Professor John Thwaites, who boasts a very impressive CV.
John Thwaites is currently the chair and Professorial Fellow of Monash University’s Sustainable Development Institute, ClimateWorks Australia & BehaviourWorks Australia.
John is Chair of Melbourne Water and a Director of Fair Trade Australia New Zealand.
John is the Chair of the National Sustainable Development Council, which has developed the Transforming Australia: SDGs Progress Report 2018. We’ll be speaking with him today predominantly about the 2020 update of the Transforming Australia report, for which John was the Principal Lead. You can find the report at sdgtransformingaustralia.com
He is a Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (“SDSN”) launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations to provide expert advice and support to the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Lancet Covid-19 Commission, one of the pre-eminent global bodies created solutions to the pandemic appointed John as a Commissioner.
John Thwaites was also Deputy Premier of Victoria from 1999 until his retirement in 2007, as well as holding Ministerial portfolios including Health, Planning, Environment, Water, and has the honour of being Victoria’s first Minister for Climate Change.
In this episode, we’re joined by Jody Lightfoot of the Campaign for Australian Aid
Jody’s work aligns most closely with Goal 17 – Partnerships for the Goals, specifically target #17.2, which is:
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income toward official development assistance to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of gross national income toward official development assistance to least developed countries official development assistance providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of gross national income toward official development assistance to least developed countries
Campaign for Australian Aid is a movement of people, organisations, communities and businesses who believe Australia can and should do more to help build a better, fairer future for all. The Campaign is made up of fifty of the country’s leading aid and development organisations, including World Vision, Oxfam and Save the Children, to name a couple.
Good news developed not long after Jody and I spoke. The Australian Government announced at the beginning of November an added $500m to assist in the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine to the Pacific and South East Asia.
The $500 million will be rolled out over three years to ensure full immunisation coverage for the Pacific and will make a significant contribution toward Southeast Asia.
In this episode, we’re joined by Daniel Pejic of the University of Melbourne’s Connected Cities Lab.
Dan’s work aligns most closely with Goal 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Daniel Pejic is a Research Fellow in International Urban Migration and a PhD researcher at University of Melbourne’s Connected Cities Lab as part of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.
The Connected Cities Lab is a laboratory designed to address the challenges city leadership faces, and the information it needs in an interconnected and increasingly urbanised planet.
Dan is currently researching the role of cities as actors in global migration governance and the rescaling of the politics of migration
In this episode, we’re joined by Annie Woollard of Footprints on the Globe.
Annie’s work, though interlinked with all the Goals, hews most closely with Goal #4 – Quality Education, specifically target 4.7:
By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
Footprints on the Globe, collaborates with schools, educators, and corporations to inspire all to educate, explore and act for global change.
Via professional development, Footprints on the Globe ensures global education is at the forefront of schools around the globe, and in its advisory capacity, designs and creates innovative educational resources.
Footprints on the Globe is a specialist educational consultancy with a focus on embedding global education into the classroom and schools.