Just published - Governance for Sustainable Development Volume 8: SDG 16 and its Interlinkages with other SDGs – Challenges and Opportunities

This is the eighth book by the Friends of the Governance for Sustainable Development. The chapters in this book are based on some of the presentations made at the workshop ‘SDG 16 and its Interlinkages with other SDGs – Challenges and Opportunities.’ SDG 16 stands as a cornerstone in this integrated framework, when “structural injustices, inequalities and emerging human rights challenges are putting peaceful and inclusive societies further out of reach” (2023, SDG Report).

The workshop was organized in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Romania to the United Nations in New York, focusing on providing an open space for Member States to discuss issues that they would be addressing later this year or next and having the chance to hear what experts think is useful for their consideration. 

The HLPF 2024 reviewed:

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere; 

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; 

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; 

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels; and 

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. 

We expect the present publication to be a useful input for the ongoing discussions about the institutional architecture for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Authors include Felix Dodds, Jamil Ahmad, Julia Kercher, David Le Blanc, Mariana Neves, Daniel Zavala Porras, John Romano, and Jan Gustav Strandenaes. 

The book is available for print and Kindle here and freely downloadable as a PDF here Volume 8 PDF