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Introduction


The Asia and the Pacific region share a strong commitment to advance the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an enabling factor to advance the SDGs. To this end, many processes at the regional, sub-regional and national levels have been institutionalised. At the regional level, Asia-Pacific countries adopted the Regional Road Map for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific at the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development that took place in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2017 (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific [UNESCAP] 2017)xvii


. The road map lays out priority areas, implementation


arrangements, and a process for tracking progress on the SDGs to facilitate regional level cooperation in promoting the balanced integration of the three dimensions of the SDGs (social, economic and environmental) with a focus in the areas of social development, disaster risk reduction, climate change, management of natural resources, connectivity, and energy. The road map particularly highlights the importance of supporting the implementation of SDGs by developing countries, least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing countries, small-island developing States, and other countries with special needs.


In Southeast Asia, the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) -UN Environment and Climate Change Action Plan 2016-2020 promotes cooperation and collaborative efforts towards the realisation of the ASEAN Declaration on ASEAN Post-2015 Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Agenda as well as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. At the national level, Asia-Pacific countries have made considerable efforts to mainstream the SDGs into national policies, plans and strategies, including submission of Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. From 2016 to 2018, 20 countries from the Asia-Pacific region submitted their VNRs, and 11 additional Asia-Pacific countries will do so in 2019. As the VNR is a state-led voluntary reporting process that involves multiple stakeholders to follow up on the SDGs implementation at the national level, the fact that many Asia-Pacific countries are submitting VNRs is a demonstration of their strong engagement and ownership at the national level to achieve the SDGs.


Statistical availability and capacity


The largest gap in the Asia Pacific region in terms of statistical availability and capacity exist in SDG 11 (Cities and Communities), SDG 12 (Sustainable Consumption and Production), SDG 13 (Climate Action), SDG 14 (Oceans), and


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Republic of Korea bans single-use plastics in all major supermarkets (Jun-ho 2018).


Measuring Progress Report 2019


SDG 17 (Partnerships and Means of Implementation) where majority of data are still not available or not sufficient to analyse changes over time.


The Asia-Pacific region must urgently address the large data gaps, as they limit a comprehensive and robust progress assessment of the SDGs and embrace new sources of data and partners to expand the scope of official statistics. There is a need to continue to support efforts towards reviewing the status and gaps of environmental data availability, strengths and weaknesses of the environmental data systems management reporting on state of environment, SDGs and MEAs; and strengthening statistical systems and data management capacity for implementation of and reporting on the progress of SDGs, including practical measures to expand the content and improve the quality of national statistical compendium, with a participative approach to engage interdepartmental partners in compiling the data.


Progress and gaps


In East and Southeast Asia, most progress has been made on SDG 15 (Land and Biodiversity), followed by SDG 2 (Food Security), SDG 6 (Water), SDG 7 (Energy), SDG 14 (Oceans), and SDG 17 (Partnerships and Means of Implementation). For SDG 7 (Energy), the East and Southeast Asia sub-region showed positive change in reliance on clean fuels (7.1.2) and energy intensity (7.3.1) as energy efficiency


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