Five years na lang, 2030 na!
Ibig sabihin, may limang taon na lang din ang Pilipinas para tuparin ang 17 Sustainable Development Goals na itinakda ng United Nations para sa peace and prosperity ng bawat isa sa mundo.
Ang tanong, keri ba ma-achieve ng Pilipinas ang SDGs by 2030? Here’s what you #NeedToKnow!
Ibig sabihin, may limang taon na lang din ang Pilipinas para tuparin ang 17 Sustainable Development Goals na itinakda ng United Nations para sa peace and prosperity ng bawat isa sa mundo.
Ang tanong, keri ba ma-achieve ng Pilipinas ang SDGs by 2030? Here’s what you #NeedToKnow!
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00:00Relationship Goals, BFF Goals, Personal Goals.
00:04There are a lot of goals that we still want to achieve in life.
00:07Rifa May said,
00:10This is it! Go, go, goals!
00:13But did you know that there are a lot of goals that the Philippines still needs to achieve?
00:18One of these is the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs established by the United Nations.
00:25For the global goals, Yorn,
00:27Can the Philippines achieve the SDGs by 2030?
00:31Here's what you need to know.
00:37In 2015, the Philippines adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
00:44Its goal is to address the major problems of the world,
00:47such as poverty, inequality, and climate change,
00:51for the peace and prosperity of everyone.
00:54The country's deadline is 2030 to achieve this.
00:58In a speech by Pia Arkangel to UN Secretary General Amina Mohammed,
01:02she listed the things the Philippines should do to try to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
01:08It's an agreed deadline, and so therefore we should do as much as we can do before then.
01:13I'm not a believer and not attempting to make the best of the five years that we have
01:17because it will involve millions of people's lives that we could make an improvement in
01:21for education, for health, for more peaceful communities, for jobs.
01:26These are really important issues.
01:38First, let's put it in context.
01:40The world is not doing well.
01:41It's not just the Philippines.
01:42We have a terrible score of 17% of the SDGs globally.
01:47People are struggling.
01:48They were struggling before COVID.
01:51They were struggling even more because trying to recover your economies after COVID was pretty bad.
01:58So there have been a lot of exacerbating factors as to why countries are not doing as well.
02:02Having said that, there's a whole lot that we can do to accelerate to get to 2030.
02:07The National Economic and Development Authority is the agency in the Philippines that is focused on the SDGs.
02:14The SDGs are also incorporated in the Philippine Development Plan for 2023 to 2028.
02:20But what is the progress of the Philippines when it comes to the SDGs?
02:25First on the list of SDGs is the goal to get rid of poverty.
02:30To achieve this goal, the Philippines has set targets that should be achieved by 2030.
02:37In the Philippine Development Plan Report 2023,
02:40the goal of the Philippines is to reduce poverty incidence to at most 9% by 2028.
02:46But there's a big question mark on whether this goal can be achieved.
02:51According to the PSA-FIES in 2023, poverty incidence in the country is at 15.5%.
02:58That's equivalent to 17.54 million poor Filipinos.
03:03So, does the Philippines still have a fighting chance to achieve the SDGs by 2030?
03:08I think countries are doing the best that they can.
03:11They could do better.
03:12The Philippines could absolutely do better.
03:15I'm very optimistic that you will go far.
03:17There are a number of challenges that you have ahead.
03:19Reforms have to be owned and they have to be consolidated upon.
03:24Climate action is also included in the SDGs.
03:28The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable when it comes to climate change.
03:32Just this October, the severe tropical storm Christine and typhoon Leon hit.
03:38Some of the survivors in Camarinesur were hungry and thirsty.
03:42That's why they were forced to flee and fight for help.
03:47Almost 1.6 million families or almost 7 million individuals were affected.
03:52In 2022, the Loss and Damage Fund was approved in the COP27.
03:58This is the funding allocated for the irreversible effects of the climate crisis.
04:03But funding is not the only thing needed for this.
04:06In a developing country like the Philippines,
04:09there is a need for up to $400 billion per year
04:13for the loss and damages caused by climate change.
04:16Funding it like everything else today is challenged with public resources,
04:20private resources, all are challenged.
04:22What the UN is doing is that we will have COP29 and this is a finance COP
04:27and it will be talking about what we do with a recommitment to a quantitative goal
04:32that will allow us to execute Article 9 of the Paris Agreement
04:36that brings public funding to climate action.
04:40Last but not the least in the SDGs is the Partnership for the Goals.
04:44It recognizes the importance of cooperative efforts across sectors
04:49and global partnership to make all SDGs a reality.
04:54The private sector has to bring something to the table.
04:57Government has to bring something to the table.
04:59The international community has to do that.
05:01And then I think we'll go far.
05:03The problem is that only 15% of the UNDRAC is achieved by 2030 for the SDG 17.
05:11In a statement, UN Resident Coordinator in the Philippines Gustavo Gonzalez said
05:16that 30 years behind the progress of the Philippines when it comes to SDGs.
05:22Maximizing new technologies is one of the solutions
05:26for a more sustainable global partnership between states.
05:30We also looked at, as I said, the new technologies
05:33and how we can create the guardrails for the potential
05:36of new technologies and perhaps leapfrogging in education.
05:39And then of course the financial system.
05:41This is a system designed not for today and it needs to be more inclusive.
05:45It needs to open up the capital markets so that you can invest in development
05:50and grow your economy.
05:51Your domestic resources that you mobilize from that can then do the very basics
05:56for the people of the Philippines and of course other countries.
06:00It's a pressure recipient that the Philippines is still very far from the SDGs
06:05but the deadline is approaching for them to be fulfilled.
06:09Why is it important for us to achieve the SDGs?
06:14People will be left behind.
06:15Women's rights will be left behind.
06:17Gender-based violence will not have been eradicated as we would like it to be.
06:22Hunger and poverty, inequalities, the lack of jobs, those are implications
06:27and they can cause a lot of social unrest.
06:29Climate, and as you see it now, more intense events that are happening.
06:34If we don't deal with mitigation and emissions adaptation
06:37then of course there will be more suffering every time you have a climate event.
06:41So the implications for not getting the agenda done are clear
06:45and that should give us the incentives and the momentum to push to get it done
06:49because we really can't leave anyone behind.
07:15If every sector of society will be united and the main reforms in the country will be implemented
07:21then we can still have a plot twist in achieving the SDGs.