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Sun 1st Nov 17:00-18:30
Sun 1st Nov 17:00-18:30
Workshop Synopsis
Workshop Synopsis
With a decade remaining to achieve the SDGs, it is time to be honest with ourselves: we may be doing more harm than good in our approach to take action towards the Goals. It is easy to see how one project advances the 2030 Agenda, or builds synergies, but we ignore its potential to reverse progress on other Goals, or its trade-offs. Today, we cannot achieve SDG 8, create new jobs, without compromising on our commitment to SDG 13, environmental conservation! We explain why governments and businesses are notoriously bad at identifying and eradicating these trade-offs, and why it is up to us youth, non-state actors and NGOs to redesign our SDG approach. Further still, the voluntary nature of the SDG framework creates many loopholes that countries exploit, making us responsible to defend the SDGs too. The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated these weaknesses as sustainable development is not central to our current pandemic response. What effect has the COVID crisis had on achieving the SDGs. We explore models of what this redesign looks like and how it can hold policy-makers accountable.
Don Sandev Ferdinando
Don Sandev Ferdinando
Sanskriti Tandon is a junior at Georgetown University in Qatar studying International Economics and Governments. She has been actively advocating for the SDGs through her educational work with students all across the world which led her to present on the TQ-Afghanistan Initiative at the UN in 2019. She interned under the Ambassador of Panama in Qatar to further explore the convergence of bureaucratic management and social affairs. Currently, she is researching the importance of social entrepreneurship and developing a systematic learning approach alongside hosting an SDG Post-COVID Design platform with partners across the region.
Sanskriti Tandon
Sanskriti Tandon
A junior at Yale-NUS College in Singapore studying Economics and Environmental Studies, Sandev is the Director of Conference Partnerships at MUN Impact. The intersection of climate policy and the SDGs was the focus of his internship at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, where he covered ECOSOC and GA3 deliberations and the HLPF. Sandev works with civil society organizations to fill the governance gap in achieving the 2030 Agenda. In this regard, he joined the NUS delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP25, to learn how far the process of creating climate policy eradicates SDG trade-offs.
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