{"id":6628,"date":"2016-03-31T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2016-03-31T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:16:53","slug":"will-the-uk-meet-all-the-sdgs-any-time-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/03\/31\/will-the-uk-meet-all-the-sdgs-any-time-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the UK meet all the SDGs any time soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not according to a UN <a href=\"http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160215-Preliminary-SDG-Index-and-SDG-Dashboard-working-paper-for-consultation.pdf\">paper<\/a> that's currently out for comment. \u00a0Mind you, as ever, it will depend on what the questions are, crucially, on where the pass-mark is, and, probably, on who gets to set both of these. \u00a0As with school exams, who gets the glory and the ignominy depends to some extent on the examiners as well as\u00a0the lucky\/ luckless candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thanks to Alan Reid for alerting the EER Mailbase\u00a0to the\u00a0consultation on a <em>country-level<\/em> <em>SDG Index and Dashboard<\/em> that sets out to measure SDG achievement across the 17 goals\u00a0using data available today. \u00a0A \u00a0<strong><em>Green<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Amber<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Red\u00a0<b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i><\/i>traffic light system is proposed. \u00a0Comments can be submitted online until today. \u00a0During the consultation authors\u00a0would be particularly grateful for advice on how to fill major data gaps in the preliminary scoring. \u00a0For example, what do you think of the initial indicators that relate to SDG4, Quality of Education:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expected years of schooling: \u00a0&gt;15 [<strong><em>Green<\/em><\/strong>] \u00a012 to 15 [<em>Amber<\/em>] \u00a0&lt;12 [Red]<\/li>\n<li>% population aged 25-64 with tertiary education: \u00a0&gt;25 [<strong><em>Green<\/em><\/strong>] \u00a015 to 25 [<em>Amber<\/em>] \u00a0&lt;15 [Red]<\/li>\n<li>PISA score: \u00a0&gt;493 [<strong><em>Green<\/em><\/strong>] \u00a0400 to 493 [<em>Amber<\/em>] \u00a0&lt; 400 [Red]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proposed indicators for other SDGs are also included in the draft, as is\u00a0a global ranking and score by country and aggregation method. \u00a0You can find out more, and how to comment, <a href=\"http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/resources\/publications\/sdg-index\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the UK (at present), we do reasonably well on many counts as you can see in the paper's Table 7:\u00a0<em>Dashboard for OECD countries using indicators of the OECD SDG Index<\/em>, and only Sweden, New Zealand and France have\u00a0fewer red lights that we do. \u00a0But we only manage\u00a04 Greens (out of 17), whereas the the tiresome Scandinavians (and New Zealand) tend to have a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>The two UK Red lights are for Goal 7 (<em>Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all<\/em>) and Goal 8 (<em>Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all<\/em>), and only Norway gets Greens for both these.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone will like the way that economic growth is tied to sustainable development, but, either way, making it \"<em>sustained, inclusive and sustainable\" <\/em>will be a neat trick. \u00a0What a good job those Norwegians have\u00a0had all that oil to play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not according to a UN paper that's currently out for comment. \u00a0Mind you, as ever, it will depend on what the questions are, crucially, on where the pass-mark is, and, probably, on who gets to set both of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}