A CULTURE GOAL IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR COMMON FUTURE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Culture is effectively missing from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Yet no one would argue that culture is irrelevant to the 2030 Agenda. Indeed,
the United Nations General Assembly Declaration enshrining the 2030 Agenda
refers to its importance, but there is no language specifying this “contribution” is,
detracting from the Agenda’s supposedly “integrated and indivisible” character.
As reflection starts on the challenges and terms of reference of a post-2030
Agenda for the international community and for humanity as a whole, it is timely
to consider how culture could, as early as possible, take its proper place in
the commitments, goals and targets to be adopted in due course through the
mechanisms of the United Nations.
Achieving this would help a sound consideration of the cultural shifts that are an
essential aspect of the fulfilment, in dignity and equality, of the potential of all
human beings, via explicit wording related to culture, as well as via education,
gender equality, sustainable production and consumption, liveable cities, climate
action, peace, justice, inclusion and beyond. It would also provide a means of
avoiding artificial divisions between the social, economic and environmental
pillars of sustainable development, as well as anchoring of the post-2030 Agenda
in a culture of sustainability.
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Source: THE AGORA
Appendix
Links:
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[1] https://culture2030goal.net/news/agora-report-meeting
[2] https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8255276/Culture2030Goal-Agora-sign-up
[3] https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8150238/Culture2030Goal-Towards-a-Revised-Draft
[4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hlxurWaNCmSlUCGbQz_CmKdqoTBC5WuF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112025980528621158262&rtpof=true&sd=true
[5] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PKQVWCksPVRUlM94eW5Jqr81R_5Pz7wK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112025980528621158262&rtpof=true&sd=true
[6] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZSHa7YQd8x4k_B1r3GpnbYQr-CLtkEP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112025980528621158262&rtpof=true&sd=true
[7] https://culture2030goal.net/
