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Actions to reduce pollution, improve resource efficiency and better protect the environment must be scaled up in order to achieve the SDGs and ensure the long-term sustainability of the planet. The analysis in this report supports the GEO6 findings that the world is currently off track in terms of achieving the environmental dimension of development (UNEP 2019a), which in turn reduces people’s wellbeing and undermines the achievement of the socio-economic goals.


In order to achieve the environmental dimension of sustainable development, there is a need to scale up support for environmental monitoring and analysis. In particular, governments and the private sector should assess ways to leverage frontier technologies and data sources that can improve spatial and temporal coverage while reducing acquisition costs. These include open data cubes, open source software, open algorithms, etc.


There is an urgent need to prioritise the development of SDGs indicator methodologies, including an elaboration on the need for disaggregated and geospatial information. Accurate information on the environment can be used to build public awareness on environmental issues; help policy makers make evidence-based decisions related to environmental management, provide a basis for progress transparency and assessing the effectiveness of actions and interventions; hold public and private sector stakeholders accountable for their actions; and anticipate future environmental challenges. Without methodologies, data and statistics cannot be produced and it is likely that policy interventions will be less effective, policy interactions will not be understood, and certain areas of the environment and the SDGs more broadly will not receive the resources required. The use of proxies for measuring thematic areas where there is little or no data may also provide value while methodological development is ongoing.


There is a need to invest in national statistical systems and build national capacity for monitoring the environment. Most of the data needed to understand the environmental dimension of development must be generated at the national level and thus there is an urgent need to build the capacity of countries to produce and use geospatial data, environmental statistics, and indicators. This includes improving the implementation of international standards (e.g. Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics and the System of Environmental


Economic Accounting), building capacity related to specific SDGs indicators and improving geospatial information systems, in situ monitoring and observation programmes, and data management. In the absence of official national data, UN agencies and partners can help to aggregate and analyse best available data from a range of international sources.


There is a need to promote integrated analysis of the environment and of policy interactions, including reducing data fragmentation and supporting data sharing in accordance with national e-government and open data frameworks. At the national level, data are often not shared across Ministries and thus it is difficult to holistically analyse the environment and the interactions between the environment, the economy, and the people. This lack of data sharing is also prevalent at the regional and global levels. The lack of a single-entry point for accessing environmental data and information creates a barrier for technical experts and scientists working to analyse environmental issues. This also translates to a lack of information on the interactions between the implementation of specific SDGs targets (International Council for Science [ICSU] 2017). There is evidence of both negative and positive interactions between the SDGs indicators (Weitz et al. 2018); however, for the environmental dimension of development, there is a need for further research and analysis of these interactions.


Regional, sub-regional, and country-level mechanisms should be used to improve SDG follow-up, review and implementation. Implementation of the SDGs should be based on the local context and situation. Regional, sub-regional and national mechanisms are already in place which can support regional review, the formation of regional agreements, and capacity building efforts.


Goal 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) is key to the attainment of the other Goals, yet it remains the Goal with the least data availability, least funding (Dalberg 2017), and appears to be awarded low priority from Member States in their Voluntary National Reviews and SDG prioritisation processes. Efforts towards the achievement of the targets on SCP should therefore be upscaled. The transition towards sustainable and resilient societies will ultimately depend upon the responsible management of the planet’s finite natural resources. Progress in economic and social development over the past century has led to environmental degradation and has endangered the very systems that provide the basis for future development.


Sustainable Development Goal


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