GO4SDGs is hosting a series of Regional Workshops. Each workshop is built around UNEP’s Sustainable Consumption and Production Hotspot Analysis Tool (SCP-HAT). This tool analyzes hotspots in a country or at the sector level where unsustainable consumption and production is happening. Participants will learn how to apply this tool to a topic and interpret the results.
Overview
With only 10 years left before the 2030 deadline, there is an urgent need to step up action. And every nation, every community and every person can and must make a contribution.
Progress in achieving the Sustainable Development has been, to-date, an evolution, characterised by concentrated but incremental progress. But it’s not enough. As UN Secretary António Guterres recently outlined in speech at the Leaders Forum (December 2020), we are facing severe setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. In his words: “The state of the planet is broken.” And that fixing it, must be the top priority for everyone, everywhere. The good news is that solutions and tools exist. Scientific evidence, policy learning, technologies, approaches are all at hand; what is lacking are the capacities and knowledge to create the systemic change needed. UNEP's initiative, “Global Opportunities for SDGs” (GO4SDGs for short) is building on this knowledge and know-how.
GO4SDGs works with countries to strengthen their cooperation and capacities to deliver on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Paris Agreement. It helps countries map out how to decarbonise and decouple impacts of economic activity on pollution, climate and biodiversity. Under GO4SDGs, innovative and successful country-level activities are matched with existing networks and pools of expertise to increase sustainable consumption and production practices and inclusive green economies around the world. Specifically, GO4SDGs works with three change-agent groups: policy makers, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and youth.
Objective
Participants
Upcoming Regional Training Workshops:
Workshop for West Asia will be held on the 3rd and 4th November.
Other Regional Training Workshops were hosted on:
Workshop for Africa was held on May
Recording for Session 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC7obA2W9lQ
Recording for session 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVQHgGUMG_E
Workshop for Asia-Pacific was held on April
Recording for Session 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwtQkzkIBdM
Recording for session 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt73bk4gk-o
Workshop for LAC was held on March.
Recording for session 1 (in Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_djmmzDqClo
Recording for session 2 (in Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOSKHM1_-IE
Each workshop is built around UNEP’s Sustainable Consumption and Production Hotspot Analysis Tool (SCP-HAT). This tool analyzes hotspots in a country or at the sector level where unsustainable consumption and production is happening. Participants will learn how to apply this tool to a topic and interpret the results. The workshops are a mixture of plenary, small working groups, and hands-on application of SCP-HAT. Each workshop has six sections and is held virtually over two days for a total of six hours. Topics for the small working groups will be set in advance.
Day One
- Session 1: Role of Sustainable Consumption and Production in Helping Meet Agenda 2030 and Climate Change Challenges
- Session 2: About SCP-HAT: What it is, what it is not, what it can do, what it can’t
- Session 3: Working Groups: Learning how to use the tool
Day Two
- Session 4: Working Groups: Applying the tool
- Session 5: Report Back and Feedback
Workshops will be held in English.