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NL The SDGs and climate change mitigation, unfairly separated
In last week's debate on the Economic Affairs and Climate budget, Minister Wiebes' climate measures were discussed at length. Interestingly, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015, were not mentioned during this debate. These 17 goals, with a focus on economic, social and environmental development themes, must be achieved by 2030.
Still, the exclusion of the SDGs within climate action is not entirely remarkable, as the Netherlands seems to see its ambitions to combat climate change completely separate from the development goals set out in the SDG agenda. This is unfortunate, as combating climate change is an important part of this agenda. For instance, there is a goal specifically on climate change mitigation (SDG 13) and climate change mitigation is relevant to the entire SDG agenda. The major social and economic impacts of climate change are inhibiting all these other goals. So we need to stop seeing climate action and SDGs in isolation and reporting on them.
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