POST 2015 & SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT : CAPACITY FOR WHAT?GINA LUCARELLI, CD4SD WORKSHOP OCTOBER 15, 2012

Capacity to ______?

1. Risky Projections on MDGs 2.0

2. The MDG format: what can we learn?

3. Cracking the integration challenge: synergies

and structures and structures

4. Integrated investment choices

5. Getting Political without getting impossible

6. Intrusive..or Conducive? State and the Market

Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Objective:

Tasked to develop a proposal for the

Members:

Working Group comprised of 30

representatives nominated by Member

States (September 2012)

Tasked to develop a proposal for the

Sustainable Development Goals

Output:

A report to the UNGA containing a

proposal for sustainable development

goals (between Sep 2013/14)

SG's High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the post-2015 UN development agenda

Co-Chair: Co-Chair: Co-Chair:

• Mandate: MDG+10 Summit

• Output: SG will deliver a report to UNGA by the 2nd quarter of 2013

• Input: Work based on report of UN System Task Team

• Work to be informed by Rio+20 and UNDG's consultations

Co-Chair:

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

President of Indonesia

Co-Chair:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President of Liberia

Co-Chair:

David Cameron

Prime Minister of the UK

Benin Brazil China Colombia Cuba France Germany Japan

Jordan Kenya India Latvia MexicoNetherla

ndsNigeria

Russian

Fed

South

Africa

Rep

KoreaSweden

Timor-

LesteTurkey USA Yemen Ex Officio

CEO

Unilever

Risky Projections: What will MDG 2.0

look like ?

• Correcting the

Environment

omission

• Quality of Education

• Non-communicable

Environmental sustainability

• Non-communicable

diseases?

• Inequality?

• Governance

Human rights

Equality

Sustainability

Peace and Security

Inclusive social development

Inclusive economic

development

Universal Goals? Good for

Human development. Good for

MICs

Simple Beauty

Gave operational meaning to

human development

Results based format

MDG Weaknesses

Aggregate bias undermined

subnational inequities

Revealed lack of reliable

baseline across countries

MDG Strengths

Results based format

improved policy monitoring

and accountability

Global targets tailored to

national realities worked best

Emphasized financial gaps

over institution building

Didn’t consider synergies

and tradeoffs

Integration (1): Synergy sound bites

Better Health 1/5 diseases in

Europe can be

prevented by

reducing pollution.

Fiscally

sound:

1 trillion in

subsidies for oil,

coal and gas.

1 trillion needed

for a green

Social

Inclusion

Economic

Prosperity

Yes there will be Job

Loss…but 85% of carbon emissions

employ 12% of Europe.

for a green

economy

Environmental

Protection

Integration (2): Structures: from lava

lamp to puzzle

Inter-

sectoral

committee

on _____

Effort to get

_____ into

the Medium

Term

Expenditure

Framework

National

Strategy on

________

Framework

Increase

public

awareness

by

measuring

_______.

Municipal

Pilot on

________

• Life

expectancy

• Math &

Literacy

• Infant

Investment choices: Prisons or pensions?

Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level

• Infant

mortality

• Homicides

• Imprisonment

www.equalitytrust.org.uk

More for Finance Ministers: fossil fuel subsidies

Intelligent policy…even when it’s

political

Where is the

Resistance

Versus the

Injustice?

Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies…not impossible

1. Estimate how much is spent.

2. Determine who is hurt most by its removal

3. Have a plan for how to phase out: most harmful first,

what are acceptable trade offs?

4. Do it gradually and substitute

Conducive States for a Green Economy

• Pulling the state out of where it doesn’t belong

• Injecting state efforts to

o Target support to the poorest

o Reduce inequality

o Investing in R and D until green is profitableo Investing in R and D until green is profitable

• Ready to remove administrative barriers

• Deal with people as consumers, citizens..co-creators?

To “do” sustainable development, governments

need a longer term perspective…where does this

come from?

WANTED….Capacities for Post MDG

frontier

• Achieve results without

clinging to silos

• Holistic investment

• Build constituencies and

accountability

• Take out the political

sting and get on with it.