¶ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, also known as Agenda 2030, is a multinational set of policy guidelines described through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a project led by the United Nations.
¶ History
On October 21, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly published Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[1]
In April 2021, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45% below 2005 levels by the year 2030, an acceleration of previously announced goals.[2] As the Trudeau government put further pressure on the agriculture industry in July 2022 to rapidly reduce their fertilizer use by 30%, farmers sounded the alarm, warning of worsening food shortages and huge economic losses (estimated at $10.4 billion CAD over the course of the decade).[3]
The Government of the Netherlands announced near-identical cuts in nitrogen emissions through reduction of fertilizer, radical reductions of livestock, as well as a reduction in intensive farming and the conversion to sustainable “green farms.”[4] In the government's own proposal, they acknowledge an estimated 11,200 farms would be forced to close and another 17,600 farmers would have to cull a significant amount of their livestock.[5] As a result, protests erupted outside Dutch parliament in The Hague, with reports of fire, manure and blockades contributing to unrest.
¶ External links
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (2015, October 21). United Nations General Assembly. https://web.archive.org/web/20210315191438/https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N15/291/89/PDF/N1529189.pdf?OpenElement ↩︎
Bolongaro, K. (2021, April 22). Trudeau Vows to Speed Up Emissions Cuts for Canada, a G7 Laggard. Bloomberg. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216072753/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/trudeau-vows-to-speed-up-emissions-cuts-for-canada-a-g7-laggard#xj4y7vzkg ↩︎
Skerritt, J. (2022, July 27). Trudeau Spars With Farmers on Climate Plan Risking Grain Output. Bloomberg. http://archive.today/2022.07.29-092925/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/trudeau-spars-with-farmers-on-climate-plan-cutting-fertilizer-grain-output ↩︎
Holligan, A. (2022, July 29). Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts. BBC News. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729031715/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335287urope-62335287 ↩︎
Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit Ministerie van Landbouw. (2022, June 10). Onontkoombare transitie naar een vitaal landelijk gebied. Rijksoverheid. http://archive.today/2022.07.05-142059/https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/06/10/onontkoombare-transitie-naar-een-vitaal-landelijk-gebied ↩︎