SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The General Director of Research and Coordination of Sustainable Development of the Government of the Canary Islands, David Padrón, will speak this Tuesday at a conference on high-level awareness about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a regional level and within the European Union (EU) in which he will expose the advances of the archipelago in the last four years.
The meeting is entitled ‘Sustainable Development Goals for Sustainable Regional Futures’ (Sustainable Development Goals for Sustainable Regional Futures) and is part of the project ‘Regions 2030, Monitoring the SDGs in the EU regions’ (Regions 2030, Monitoring of the SDGs in EU regions).
The workshop is promoted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with Eurostat’s General Directorate for Regional and Urban Policy and has the support of the European Parliament and the European Committee of the Regions .
This initiative arises on November 29, 2022 and, with it, the EU gives continuity to previous work in which the degree of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development among its countries and regions was analyzed, collects a note from the Executive .
The goal is to design a monitoring system for the Sustainable Development Goals at the territorial level and to promote a culture of transparent decisions and policies based on data.
To do this, it tries to involve the EU regions in the monitoring processes of the SDGs, provide a monitoring framework for the regional authorities in their respective territories and support statistical capacities in the collection, monitoring and evaluation of data.
Likewise, it is intended to increase local ownership of the SDGs and the openness and transparency of the results obtained.
In this line, it seeks to provide personalized training to regional authorities for the adequate collection and analysis of data that guarantees the quality and availability of data on the development of sustainable development agendas.
Specifically, it is the first pan-European project that designs a monitoring system for the SDGs at a territorial level and is financed by the European Parliament.
The initiative will conclude in December this year with four expected results that will serve as a reference for the pilot participants and for regions across the EU.
REASON FOR SATISFACTION
David Padrón, General Director of Research and Coordination of Sustainable Development considers it a “reason for satisfaction” that the EU recognizes the work carried out in recent years in the Canary Islands in terms of localization and measurement of the SDGs, because, as he stresses, “it reinforces the conviction that progress is being made in the right direction and this deepens the recognition that the UN already conveyed to the Government of the Canary Islands in 2021”.
In his opinion, the set of territorial actors in the Canary Islands have carried out a “very good localization exercise” of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs to the reality of the islands.
“The Government of the Canary Islands had the task of coordinating these works during the X legislature. The bases are already laid. Now it is up to the new government team to continue, consolidate and energize this collective work for the next four years. In this exciting task , will have the support of all the people who have been directly involved in this common project for the benefit of the economic, social and environmental sustainability of our autonomous community”, he indicates.
