INFO BOX: SDG 17

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 17 (SDG 17):

Partnerships for the Goals

With the global Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations addresses challenges such as eliminating hunger and poverty and ensuring fair trade, clean water, and climate protection. One country or region cannot achieve these goals alone. This requires strong worldwide partnerships between various stakeholders, from governments and businesses to civil society and the scientific community. A sustainable transformation can only be achieved through closely interlinked measures in numerous fields and on many public and private levels. SDG 17 deals with this issue and describes five areas for strengthening collaboration – finance, technology, capacity-building, trade, and systemic issues. Both developed regions and emerging economies are addressed in order to strengthen collaboration at the local, national, regional, and global level and promote effective development. The responsibility for inclusive, sustainable development is not borne by one person, but by global society. The five areas of SDG 17 are described in part in the following.

THE UN HAS SET THE FOLLOWING TARGETS PERTAINING TO THE TOPIC OF “PARTNERSHIP FOR THE GOALS”, WHICH HAVE ALSO BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE AUSTRIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (ABRIDGED):

Finance ü Strengthen domestic resource mobilisation ü Ensure that developed countries fully implement their official development assistance commitments ü Mobilise additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

Technology ü Enhance North-South, South-South, and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology, and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms Capacity-building ü Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries

Trade ü Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory, and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization

Systemic issues This area encompasses measures in the fields of policy and institutional coherence, multi-stakeholder partnerships, data, monitoring, and accountability.