This paper calls for a transformation in economic and financial systems to expand the environmental agenda beyond climate change and to include the drivers of biodiversity loss and other factors.
This compendium aims to support key actors and institutions to plan, implement, replicate and scale nature-based solutions in the three South Asian nations.
Bangladesh's "Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2020: Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development" is the second formal voluntary review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation by the government of Bangladesh, and unlike the 2017 VNR where the implementation status, challenges and coping strategies covering only six SDGs were presented, the 2020 VNR encapsulates calls for reviewing of all the SDGs. The 2020 VNR report covering the years till 2019, illustrates the progress made by Bangladesh in various areas of the economic and social development field including but not limited to success in reducing extreme poverty measured by $1.90 a day / national poverty line (LPL).
The report provides recommendations on how Myanmar's Environmental Conservation Department (ECD) can improve its monitoring and compliance functions in the short and long term. Recommendations around linking the post-Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) approval permitting to monitoring and compliance and how to use civil society and other participatory mechanisms, as well as self-reporting mechanisms, are also provided.
In the context of merging the poverty and environment agendas, this brief outlines lessons from 50 years of UN sustainable development policy, including key messages, recommendations, inter-linkages between poverty-environment and global negotiations, new and continuing challenges, and the way forward regarding the triple-planetary crises.