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”.
@GPS_UCSD graduate student Marianna Garcia highlights the barriers to education faced by students in rural Paraguayan communities. Take a look at Marianna's piece that ties geospatial analysis to #SDG4 on our new Student Blog
Read MoreAnnouncing the launch of the SDGPI Student Blog! We have excellent contributions by graduate students from @GPS_UCSD that use cutting-edge spatial methods for policy-relevant analysis to achieve the #SDGs. Big thank you to our contributors!
Read MoreGreat opinion piece out of @CCD_UCSD by James Rauch of @UCSDEcon on how a US Carbon Adjustment Tax might work in the absence of a US Federal Carbon Tax #SDG13 #SDG17
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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
