CENN Joins a Global Call to Action for Taking Strong Commitment, Concrete Steps and Bold Actions for Delivering the SDGs

In September 2022, CENN represented Georgia in the second Global Forum Network Meeting of National SDG Advisory bodies that took place in Cape Town, South Africa. The Global Forum is a network that connects the knowledge and experience of multi-stakeholder advisory commissions, councils, and similar bodies for sustainable development.

The joint experience in Cape Town evolved into the demand for a Joint Call to Action. As one of the results of the event, a document of a Joint Call to Action has been developed that call for all governments and national stakeholder groups to support the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’s proposals in “Our Common Agenda”. The “Our Common Agenda” report looks ahead to the next 25 years and represents the Secretary-General’s vision for the future of global cooperation. It calls for inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism to better respond to humanity’s most pressing challenges.

The document of a Joint Call to Action call on all governments and national stakeholder groups to focus specifically on the following topics that are relevant to institutionalized stakeholder processes and platforms:

1. Specific steps to account for the interests of future generations
2. Renew social contract across a scale and rebuild trust by transforming institutions and systems
3. To develop strategies for achieving the “how” of preserving global public goods, such as oceans, atmosphere, and rainforests
4. To move beyond profit and growth as a measurement of success and well-being and to achieve the transition to green and circular economies
5. Inclusive participation of stakeholders to deliver just transitions across all the SDGs

CENN is a co-chair of the Working Group of the SDG Council of Georgia on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection (along with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and UN FAO).  Along with specializing in a number of areas relevant to SDGs, CENN is currently implementing the project with the support from GIZ funded by the German government that has an objective to jumpstart SDG implementation, continue nationalization of new targets, and commence localization of SDGs in Georgia via ensuring the participatory process and meaningful multi-stakeholder dialogue on national and local levels.