Scotland and the sustainable development goals: a national review to drive action

This review provides a statement of our pre-COVID-19 ambition on driving progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Scotland. It brings together evidence, actions and stories of how we are making progress to meet the Goals.


Footnotes

1 https://www.gov.scot/publications/tackling-child-poverty-delivery-plan-first-year-progress-report-2018-19/

2 https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-farm-business-income-estimates-2017-18/pages/2/

3 https://education.gov.scot/improvement/Documents/sci38-key-findings.pdf

4 International Development Education Association Scotland: http://www.ideas-forum.org.uk/

5 Scotland’s action on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development has been led by Scotland’s International Development Alliance: https://www.intdevalliance.scot/

6 Concord is the European International Development NGO Platform. See https://concordeurope.org/what-we-do/global-citizenship/

7 https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sectors/human-rights-and-governance/development-education-and-awareness-raising_en

8 https://www.gov.scot/publications/gypsy-travellers-scotland-comprehensive-analysis-2011-census/pages/8/

9 http://dwqr.scot/information/annual-report/

10 https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=54563

11 https://www.gov.scot/publications/one-left-behind-review-employability-services/

12 Volunteering Trends in Scotland: 2007 - 2017, Volunteer Scotland, Dec 2018

13 Volunteering Trends in Scotland: 2007 - 2017, Volunteer Scotland, Dec 2018

14 https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Final-Assessment-of-the-first-SCCAP-CCC-2019.pdf

15 https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-greenhouse-gas-emissions-annual-target-report-2016/

16 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/2017#direct-and-indirect-activity-in-the-low-carbon-and-renewable-energy-economy-generated-796-billion-turnover-in-2017

17 Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/102/contents/made

18 https://www.snhpresscentre.com/resources/3lfef-0uagk-5qmqq-3b8t0-41k91

19 Scottish Government, Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Report to the Scottish Parliament 2014 - 2016 (2017). https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0052/00522533.pdf

20 https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/2018-07/Scottish%20Biodiversity%20Indicator%20-%20Terrestrial%20Insect%20Abundance%20-%20Butterflies%20-%20July%202018.pdf

21 Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/6/pdfs/asp_20040006_en.pdf; see here for collated reports https://www.nature.scot/scotlands-biodiversity/biodiversity-duty/biodiversity-duty-reporting

22 https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/107616.aspx

23 https://www2.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms/indicator/naturesites

24 https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5W-21208&ResultsPerPage=10

25 https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/publications/Peatlands%20final_web_reduced%20size.pdf (2016)

26 https://rsis.ramsar.org/

27 Examples can be found at: https://www.greeninfrastructurescotland.scot/our-projects-0

28 https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statistics/statistics-by-topic/woodland-statistics/

29 https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-forestry-strategy-20192029/pages/4/

30 ibid

31 ibid

32 https://www.cbd.int/doc/world/gb/gb-nr-oth-p1-en.pdf

33 https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2017-18/pages/5/

34 https://www.gov.scot/publications/justice-scotland-vision-priorities/pages/3/

35 https://www.gov.scot/publications/homicide-scotland-2017-18/pages/4/

36 https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2017-18/pages/5/

37 https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/cyber-crime

38 The Paris Principles were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1993.

39 The Commission was first accredited with A-Status in 2010 and then re-accredited in 2015. It is due to be reassessed in 2020. In 2015 concern over inadequate resourcing was raised. This is likely to be raised again in the 2020.

40 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=30022&nr=2241&menu=3170

41 http://www.snaprights.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Getting-it-Right-An-Overview-of-Human-Rights-in-Scotland.doc

42 http://www.snaprights.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SNAP-Evaluation-vFinal-16-July-2019.docx

43 Contribution to International Development: Report 2017-2018, Scottish Government, P 16.

44 Minister for International Development and Europe, Dr Alastair Allan, Scottish Parliament Official Report, 11 January 2017.

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