Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can provide an existing internationally agreed framework on which to base a sustainable recovery plan which supports sustainable development for people and planet.
“We need to turn the [covid] recovery into a real opportunity to do things right for the future.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres
The UN SDGs provide a template of goals and targets for Covid Recovery. In addressing the 17 Goals and influencing the daily decisions and behaviors of individuals organizations and states, Covid and future similar issues will be addressed. However the SDGs are often thought to be global issues and are often seen as relating to ‘other countries’. To support the use of the SDGs in the UK, they need to be broken downto identify how each applies in all contexts of daily life and work of individuals. It will be by changed behaviors of individuals as consumers, producers and citizens that a post Covid sustainable recovery and all 17 UN 2030 SDG’s will be achieved.
Submitted on behalf of the Greater Lincolnshire UN Association
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