SDG Policy Initiative is part of a network of Experts across the US who developed the Zero Carbon Action Plan. The Zero Carbon Consortium is hosting a series of webinars focused on key chapters and strategic recommendations from the report related to: federal policy recommendations, elements of a just transition, power generation, transportation, food and land-use, materials, buildings, and industry. Register for webinars and read the reports below.
Transforming the Power Sector in America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan
Transforming Transportation in America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan
Transforming Buildings in America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan
The Just Transition in America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan
Policy and Implementation of America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan
Transforming Industry in America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan
Transforming the Food and Land-Use Sector in America’s ZCAP
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all 193 members of the United Nations in 2015, bring together academia, government, business and civil society around a shared agenda for the next decade. The SDG Policy Initiative has organized research, programs and centers of the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego to promote policies that can bring us closer to achieving the ambition of the SDGs to “leave no one behind”.
Good read by @GPS_UCSD Prof @JoelKDay on how local governments can be leaders to address global challenges. #SDG17 #SDG10 #SDG11
Read MoreThanks for those who were able to join the Land Use Webinar with @gcmccord @davidrkanter @JenniferSklarew @MikeGJacobson. For those who missed it, look out for a link to the recording soon. Link to the ZCAP including the Land Use chapter 👉 https://t.co/7sZzWTQijg
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“Government procurement process can be aligned with low carbon food choices and have a transformative effect” @gcmccord on Land Use Policy for #ZeroCarbonActionPlan https://t.co/NcyW2cF2IN
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world’s shared purpose, centered on the simple yet revolutionary principle of “leave no one behind”. Across the world, the SDGs have been embraced at all levels of society. Cities such as Los Angeles, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, national governments including Mexico and India as well as private companies like Qualcomm and Hilton have committed themselves to the shared goal of a sustainable and inclusive future, using the SDGs to guide and measure progress.
Having spent my career in research as well as working with governments around the world, I know that many of the solutions exist to achieve the SDGs, but too often the silos within academia and government limit opportunities to translate science into good policy. The SDG Policy Initiative uses the SDGs as a framework for bringing together policymakers and researchers to inform evidence-based solutions for a sustainable future. The SDGPI showcases the latest scientific contributions around the 17 SDGs at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, through its faculty and research centers. In addition, you will learn about a series of programs that put the SDGs into action to address interconnected challenges at global, national and local scales.
Across interrelated challenges such as poverty, discrimination, climate change and biodiversity loss, meeting the SDGs and achieving sustainable and inclusive growth more broadly will require bringing academia, governments, civil society, the private sector, and individuals together around the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals. These principles — sustainability with equity and justice at its core — have never been more urgent.
Director, SDG Policy Initiative, UC San Diego
