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Professor Sacks, Mr. Archibald, distinguished guests, ministers, members of parliament, secretaries, and there are a lot of people that I would like to mention, but I can't assume that I'm overwhelmed by the interest in this event, and I thank everybody for joining us today. It's a great pleasure. For me, my name is Christoph Häuschen, I'm the chairman master to the United Nations, and host here today, but I know the audios and combos, and together with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Bertrand Foundation, and the event today here is Global Responsibilities Implementing the Goals, and featuring today the launch of the 2018 SPG event. This is the third year that the Bertrand Foundation has been sponsoring, supporting, presenting the implementation report about the 2013 agenda. And I must say this is really a fantastic piece that we have put together. We are all committed to the STVs, but then the question is where are we? And of course we have a lot of events this year, last year, next year where we look at the implementation, but country-wise we look at the implementation also of specific STVs, but the question is where do we stand? Where do we stand in relation to others? And there, the Bertrand Foundation has almost something which I mentioned is very complicated to get all the statistical data and to put this in an objective way into this dashboard and to have these standings, but for all of you who are sports fans, the most important thing on Monday morning is look at the table of the standing where is your football club right now in the league. So I think we set a certain fascination to have this look where do individual countries stand, where do we are in comparison to where we stood last year. So this is very important and I think to compile this as I said is very complicated at the same time, I think it serves also as a kind of incentive. And we will have that the first thing you do probably also the responsible politicians looking at this would say where are we last year? What were the reasons for it? So I think this is an important work that has been done not only to give a period of objective picture where we stand in general implementing the STVs, and then to the individual countries and I think it also serves as an incentive. Search for incentives to work even harder and when you look at the different it sees when you also go to the different events we I think are aware of the fact that many of the STVs we are not where we want to be when you get to the factory in 2013 and a lot of work has still remains to be done and we all will go home after this week with the mission to do even more. What I believe also this report is very important is to do something which I find very necessary. When we are here in New York there is of course a white interest but I'm not so sure that the white interest that we have on this STV is also shared in the individual countries it's shared always at the capital level also on the regional and local level. I think this report also contributes to the spread of the news of the ambition of the substance of the STV so therefore also I'm very grateful for the Veterans Month Foundation and STVs to have the resources. In comparison with last year we have made more advances we have I think now covered all 193 countries in general although many of these countries cannot provide enough statistical indicators, statistical evidence so that you can rank them but at least all 193 members also you have also covered global impacts of national action so we just before and I'm very interested to see how we become of that if palm oil is used in a western country in Germany what does this mean for the countries where palm oil is produced and what does it mean there in terms of agriculture and what you do to the land and to the infrastructure so it is a very sophisticated work I'm also very surprised to see you to learn but with how few people you actually and I'm also supposed to say this but I am amazed with the professionality but also with the few people that are involved in it and doing something very good so I appreciate very much again to be able to host you today to present and to host the event where the study would be presented but I don't want you to speak any longer because I think that you're all going to know more about the substance and therefore I would now hand over I think to you Professor Sext and thank you very much for coming here and we look forward to your presentation I have to leave with another event here but here reports about this afterwards so thank you very much for coming I'm sitting here at home and we always love being here thank you for the introduction of the report this is a report produced jointly by the Burleson Foundation the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and I would like to start by thanking my colleagues who are the leader of the Burleson Foundation Christian Kroll and Gino Schmidt and it's true they have to keep their eyes away because this small team did this around the year around the clock to have to stop in time before the high level our goal each year is to provide data for governments and civil society to know what's happening what's moving, what isn't moving, where do we stand what should we be doing I think the notable point for me on the rankings which are on page 16 of the document are that if you look at the top 14 countries with all European countries at the time I think this means something because Europe has figured out better than any other part of the world how to combine economic prosperity with social justice with environmental sustainability nobody perfect but closest to perfect is Sweden and Scandinavia and the Nordics in general but Europe I would say is for the world a very, very important principle that it is possible to have development that isn't raw capitalism just driven by greed and driven by neglect or abuse of the natural environment kind of like some countries I know and living some of the time where we rank number 32 on the list the United States because we focus on one thing in this society in political terms and that is the economics not the social and not the environmental and this is really what is about is combining all three ideas it takes a lot of work countries at the top of the list did not come to their achievement and that's it really they just step along it the Scandinavian social democracies that they're working on this for about 90 years and second to play I would say because social democracy in the 20s and 1930s and the troops of social democracy are seen in the very high rankings here one point that I would mention is being at the top of this list is pretty predictive of being at the top of two other lists the second is happiness we produce together the United Arab Emirates and we have one of the leaders of the Emirates here with us on the panel next the Emirates is championing happiness and it has a minister of state of happiness and the idea very seriously is that we should be caring about not our GDP, not our statistics but about well-being of the population the countries that rank at the top of the sustainable development list pretty consistently ranked at the top of the world happiness scores also being in a sustainable development context is really a good thing and there's a third principle there's a third list that is almost the same list and that who collects the most taxes so that heaviest and past countries in the world are actually the most sustainable and the happiest countries as well it's kind of unimaginable to the editorial writers of the Wall Street Journal the rhetoric of the U.S. political system but the idea is by the way not to collect taxes and squander and throw it out but to collect taxes so that everybody can have access to healthcare everybody can have access to education everybody can have access to child care by the way those are many of the other sustainable development goals these are social objectives not just individual objectives so to achieve the sustainable development goals we have to move to a new kind of governance a governance which combines market, civil society and the public sector we have to move from one ambition of GDP to multiple ambitions of economics social and environmental objectives we have to move from one indicator what is your quarterly return to a multi-state forward approach we have to pay attention to civilize the way the world economy and the world society works part of that also when I'll just close here is that we need to pay attention to what we're doing to others so spillover effects and we're aiming to measure spillover effects in as much detail and rigor as possible every day we're using products that have inputs from the rainforest that have inputs from ecosystems halfway around the world I start my day with a cup of coffee and that can be that can be from Java or it can be from Brazil or it can be from Colombia it can be from Ethiopia it can be from God right now I have no idea what's really happening in that ecosystem every day when I shampoo there's some palm oil on the map and I have no idea whether I've contributed to the extinction of the uranium because of the clearing of the forest and in Sava and Sarawak so we need global responsibility and to measure what's happening in the supply chains that we're in and it's no good by the way for a country to say we're green but of course we're exporting our coal and our oil and our gas to others Canada wants to be green but it wants us to buy their substance Australia wants to be green but it wants to sell coal to the rest of the world this can no longer work also that is a direct spillover and we're aiming to measure these things so that there's co-responsibility in the world and it's no good for rich countries to say okay all the dirty stuff will be produced abroad and we'll import it we're going to measure we're going to point the fingers at a better every year that achieving sustainable development is co-responsible this year we added also for the first time measures the government effort this is a work in progress next year we'll be elaborating that for sure so that we're not only measuring outcomes but we're also measuring the inputs that will be predictive of the outcomes five years from now we did that for the G20 countries this year I hope we can do it around the world or to a much larger group of countries next year this year we asked questions new government officials mentioned the SDGs is there a website, is there an intergovernmental process pretty basic questions and Julie Yelpand who will be speaking with us did a wonderful job in assessing whether the Canadian government looks after is actually walking the walk so this is something that we are going to be looking at in detail year after year we're going to ask some good advice from you and we're going to be studying public policy also in measuring public policies because the government that claims that it's green but it's out to develop more frapping more drilling, more clear cutting of porous cannot marriage any affirmation these days we need governments that are actually following through so let me stop here to thank everyone for their interest and we are very keen on accuracy, rigor, expanding the range of variables we just had a quick talk about putting some cultural variables into the report for next year ideas are completely soft and well and so we'd like feedback we had a few governments that say how dare you use the wrong data good, we want to hear that because of course we're using mostly publicly available data which may or may not be accurate but we're using the data that you find international tables but we do want to use this as a way to promote and promote new data and better data as well thank you all for being here please stay in touch throughout the year we'll look forward to getting together next year to see the rankings we're going to do our job in the United States to try to get out of this front believe me so I take this as a provocation and a call to action which we urgently need and I hope that all of you find the report thank you very, very much I'm Austin, I'm a sustainability editor and I'm honored to be back for a second year here at this event and I'm even more honored to call up our guests for this next panel so I'd like to call out Minister Alvino who is Director General for the Federal Confidentness Statistics Authority in the United Arab Emirates Julie Gelfan who is Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development with the Office of the Auditor General in Canada and Dr. Ingalls Dietrich Commissioner for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Deputy Director General for the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany thank you very much for taking time to be with us today and I think just tell us a little bit more about how you see the progress documented in the index this year what in particular catches your eye or what he was surprised by maybe from the results would like to start I mean unfortunately you speak today but I definitely think about the coffee and where it comes from but I don't think about the shampoo but I'm serious this has been a great report third edition when it was first launched the Federal Government in the sense that this is already from its team basically focuses on the Federal Government reports we look at around 20 reports and for the new report on STDs we were quite skeptical this is going to be a long edition because there are reports that came only once or twice and then they disappeared so we started to it was an exciting one there is nothing talking about STDs nothing from the United Nations nothing from the big organisations so we looked at the network and we googled we do one and we said you know what this seems like a serious report that will continue year after year so immediately we got engaged we started talking to we do one of the sites about the report and what is it that we are searching as a government in the UAE we need to look at these reports as fuel for change many countries or many government officials whether they are kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers some of them they don't like the ranking they become skeptical and some of them would become defensive we actually do that from a very objective point of view these reports for us when we are doing well if we see green when we are doing sort of ok it's yellow or orange but we need to panic it's that we need to call it a catastrophe and it's great so for us we need to get that classification for these data forms for the UAE in particular we need to call for action we have a national state and committee on SDGs the UAE is made of 17 members it might be and obviously I spoke about the committee and I had all the 10 ministers speaking about their belief and their trust in the SDGs and how it's related to their core business so there is a very strong will to make a change we take the data when we struggle if it's not available we change that color even if it's orange or yellow we go there and it says we need to fix things on the ground that person could be actually just like Professor Sartsel talking to the international organization to upload the new number or to change the number to reflect that through reality but sometimes you need to do more you need to do a policy report you need to modernize a law you need to change the legislation you need to start a new organization with some of these issues become actually a trigger for positive change but leave the floor for others also thank you yeah so I wanted to say a couple things I have less comments about the report except to say that at least for the Canadian context when I saw the report I had a disagreement with question 25 and 9 I think and what I wanted to say was may I so question 2 I wanted to tell you what I thought I was here to do was to tell you a little bit about what a group of people are doing to kind of almost not quite mimic this but so auditors general from around the world will have an auditor general or a court of auditors does this mean anything to you what an auditor general is no in fact your country did but your auditor general did do a review the state audit department so they might have different names of different countries in Canada it's called the auditor general in the US it's called the controller general in Europe it's often the court of auditors this group has an international group called intoside supreme audit institutions which are size and intoside international organization of supreme audit institutions this group of auditors generals have decided that they are going to report things related to the SDGs and one of them is to audit whether or not governments are prepared to implement the SDGs so our governments prepared to implement Canada has done one the Netherlands has done one the countries in the Arab states have done them about 11 countries in Latin America have also done these preparedness audits and I can tell you a little bit more about them but let me first just tell you the four things that these auditors who are auditing your financial statements are also doing on the SDGs so the second thing they're going to do is they're going to audit specific indicators 10.3 11.2 8.6 so in our audit plans we're going to go in and look at specific targets and indicators and audit those and see how well the governments are doing on those specific things the third thing that the auditors generals committed to do was contribute to SDG 16 peace, justice and strong institutions if you have a strong auditor function it means that you have less rivalry, less corruption and the auditors generals contribute to that just by being there and being independent of government and testing government and making sure they're doing what they say and finally the auditors generals contributed to being transparent and accountable in and of themselves which in Canada we do everything you can see who I've had lunch with and you can see everything on my website very open so those are the four things which we looked at seven different indicators and some of them are data related but what we looked at was was there from a policy perspective recognition of responsibility for sustainable development in the case of Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Justin Trudeau says that the SDGs apply to Canada so yes Canada did well on that one but on building public awareness and engaging dialogue with stakeholders Canada didn't pass Canada didn't pass for application of responsibility and accountability within the government and hadn't prepared any plans to implement the SDGs so we got pass on the first one and we failed on the next three in the area of data we looked at whether or not they have designed an established system to measure and monitor the SDG goals and targets whether or not they had set baselines and whether they were monitoring and reporting on progress and they failed on all three of those except our statistical office who had done some work on global indicators and had some data on that so Canada is ranking 20 in this this report and personally when I asked them about evidence for some of those questions I thought we were tougher on than the authors so I will send you some data to show you why you shouldn't know this is not the part of the reason why as you can see Canada has an upward facing green arrow under SBT16 and UAE as well as the green arrow in this category so what's your response to this Dr. Richard thank you very much this is where it works I would like to congratulate the the report the SDG dates and the report would like to congratulate the police from Bellesman and the STSM in particular we have some improvements we have some phase on public consultation there's a lot of new indicators especially on leave no one behind for example we have revised methodology we have a trend dashboard now this is quite some good improvement and let me point out a little bit why this report is so important so helpful for us and for the cooperation from the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development this report is really raising the gaps and challenges of sustainable development in a very innovative form of communication and it is a very good part of condensated information the report is the second point is national and international debate it raises awareness for sustainable development and SDGs among all stakeholders no charge for governance well ranking is a sensitive issue we already mentioned that but it forces debate we have to see this and what is very important for us like policy makers governments and stakeholders use the impacts for policy making and for demanding change of course I am particularly welcome to newly introduced SDG Trends dashboard which shows that we are not on track in many cases that more efforts are necessary it is a wake up call and we really see the same tendency this world is not on track with respect to the SDGs if we go up with the speed and the scale right now we won't reach also the SDGs there must be more transformation there must be less business dilution we work on that and we welcome very much that the job gives us advice on that and that is a wake up call the report is very helpful but everything which is good also has some maybe weaker points and I would like to come back briefly to ranking ranking is such a sensitive point as mentioned before Germany is ranked number 4 but we see that in 2nd of May I don't remember the name of this day but 2nd of May Germany used all the resources it should use from the end of 2018 so from 3rd of May on Germany is living on the costs of future generations and on the costs of the south and Canada country behaving like this behaving not sustainable like it should Canada is ranked number 4 so we have some doubts about the signal of this kind of ranking although I agree it's first debate gives incentives but it also has the risk of giving the wrong signals like I just mentioned we want to stop thank you you know all kinds of the moderators and I'm just a moderator and people on the panel out there because thank you so the simple numbers obviously have a very stable lifespan and yet on a day to day level we see enormous volatility in international relations without naming any names but given the importance of the multinational and global partnership is the execution of these goals how does that day to day chaos frankly make this more challenging to achieve actually we look at the number 17 which is the global partnership as an opportunity initially it was a tougher one and partnerships, global partnerships was done with more of a bilateral level between I'm going to speak about the Netherlands I can't speak on the other countries but when we used to work with certain countries on major projects outside the EUA it was based on mutual interest understanding being passionate about something very high level sponsorship and relationship but now it has moved to a different level where SDGs became actually the reason for global partnerships I'll speak about our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Corporation since the SDGs were launched in 2015 in 2016 and now 2017 and the 2016 important is on their website the EUA was one of the largest donors in the world actually according to ACB it was the largest when it comes to percentage of ODA from GNI it was 1.3% anyone from Norway Norway came second and it was a fraction 0.1% so that's 2016 I haven't seen the 2017 and maybe we regressed but when we look at what the country does globally they made it by force that anyone that was outside the country whether it's official fund that comes from the EUA government or any charitable organization it must serve a sustainable development world in that recipient country island or continent so we have actually a huge map of the world where the billions of dollars went it's divided by the SDGs and we have I think SDGs it's actually taking a lot of money SDGs or the institutions taking a lot of money clean energy is taking a lot of money so for example something that we did because of our focus on SDGs I had to fly to a small island in the south Pacific that is Samoa I was very worried to win a great wind power plant which was funded by two countries New Zealand, anyone from New Zealand and the United Governments so the partnership there was between us and the government of New Zealand for clean energy for climate change the fund was not phenomenal it was in millions of dollars but it was for a good cause for that particular island that suffers a lot from short-term electricity and power so this is what maybe governments can do is that anything that goes in terms of global partnerships trying to map it to SDGs so that you know where the money goes and if it serves global needs and global expectations and solve some global problems I was going to start by saying I think you're going to get a little frustrated with being a moderator with me on the panel because I don't represent the government I am an agent of parliament and it brings forward to parliamentarians issues that we consider important and we audit the government so we remain policy neutral I can't tell you what I think about what's going on between the Canada and the US for example because that's a policy position that may be something we're going to audit so I don't have policy position but based on the answer of my colleague what I can tell you is the partnerships between the auditor's generals on figuring out how to audit the SDGs and how to audit progress there's a couple of points that I think are very important one is in our partnerships so the era of countries worked with the Netherlands to do their audits on whether or not the countries were prepared and right after the HLPF on Thursday and Friday is a two day full meeting of the auditor's generals from around the world who will be discussing their experiences auditing the SDGs in different countries awesome so we will hear stories about how it was to audit Canada's preparedness when we first walked in we felt like we had to ask questions so who's in charge which departments are in charge who's responsible for what and I remember my staff coming up and saying we're auditing wow we're auditing that then there's nobody can answer any of our questions and as a result of going in and auditing the Canadian government actually did finally respond they have set up a leader they have set up an inter ministerial panel and they set up an SDG unit and they're getting started so we can see potential positive benefits from our auditing but in terms of partnerships we will be sharing our experiences in auditing the SDGs with all the different countries and we hope next year we're doing a side event tomorrow at the Austrian mission to show what we've been doing up until now and we hope next year to have maybe anywhere from 30 to 50 different countries preparing this audits completed so there is something related to partnership but from a policy perspective it becomes difficult for us to come thank you very much for the question I mentioned before that we don't think there is not enough transformation to our business institution if I just allow you to mention five factors why we do not have enough transformation there is finance there is inequality there is interdependence interdependence there is lack of awareness and partnerships so this is a very very important aspect to bring the agenda forward to each SDGs and what is behind that this agenda is not a government agenda it's not a government program it's not a government it's a whole of society that means that all state funds have to be included have to be active participating in implementing the SDGs and implementing sustainable development and this is for many years it's new because for many many decades it was just a government who made development and progress in that kind of issues but now we see we need civil society in business we can't do that as government also this awareness issue is very important for civil society we need the members of parliament in all the state funds and for this issue for this reason we need partnerships and this is something new we have to learn how to really work together and just if you want an example which is in our opinion quite successful that's our alliance of textiles the minister of development introduced it in 2014 after this very very cruel accident in Bangladesh and he's forming the textile industry textile actors and internationally all along the value chain and his aim is to bring all of the traded textiles in Germany that they are produced and consumed so under certain standards and this is not possible as government as you can only do as a partnership with all the state funds and this is a very good example of the law on this just to sort of a conversation starter I went through the index and I circled where like high in those scores for a and Germany Canada has a green up arrow on good health and well being and a down arrow in reducing inequalities Germany has an up arrow of several in decent work in economic growth and a side orange arrow and reduced inequalities UAE has this was interesting UAE has a number of up arrows but it has an up arrow green arrow in affordable and clean energy and a down red arrow in climate action which was an interesting result and then finally I looked at the US which had one up arrow in industry innovation infrastructure and then among the side orange arrows if you're still with me life on land needs work and just as someone who lives in the United States I can cooperate personally with life on land in the United States the thoughts on any of those goals what you're working on next what happens in terms of improvement is that action of change when it comes to data so sometimes the data that we are submitted and I have to be credited to the USD they are very open to buy and this is what the process is like some countries have been complaining but I don't think many countries would actually give the right data or provide the right information so complaining without actually substance without providing the evidence sheets that you have better data there is no point so challenging the authors of the book every now and then in terms of supplying the right data is something that I think each and every single country or state committee or authority or state of mind that manages the STGs must put as a top priority we do it in the US as part of our core business in our organization we challenge some of these forms but we fail to actually provide confirmation so they accepted some they refused some so whatever we submitted data and the data were accurate and robust after verifying from their side it didn't reflect well in terms of improvement now sometimes you actually supply data you have to supply data you cannot show data that is unavailability because you want to look good or you don't want to show that you are not performing well in a certain indicator and under the name these indicators are quality good quality education or poor quality education so you need to understand that whatever you are providing is not about making the facade this is if you truly want to make a change and you want to do a genuine change and improvement within you need to tell the truth so this is important I think for nations I mean 19 points we were one of the top maybe five countries globally that had made such a huge job but is this the rank that we want rank 60 that is definitely not the best rank it's the best rank in the other world but why are we competing ourselves to the other world I wouldn't think like Sweden what makes Sweden number one because they have robust data I think we have some more when it comes that's better when it comes to Sweden can I have that yes Sweden is number one yes they have a gap from the top I think their average score is 85% or something like that so they have no way to go keeping in mind I think we need to also understand the legacy system Sweden and the Nordic countries they had churches they had birth centres from 1500 1600 years and so on from the 15th century 16th century to 17th century our nation was born in 71 many nations colonised until very recently so there are countries that are 20 years old or 30 years old so it's very harsh sometimes to do the comparison when a statistic centre has been there for 400 years compared to a country that is actually waiting for a donor to support them establishing a statistic centre now we are not the recipient of donations or I know how from a statistic centre from a developed country to build our own system we're doing it our own but I know countries that are being occupied until very recently they need to start where people are already are and this is where I think I would request the authors to understand that there are certain gaps between countries there are certain challenges I see lots of European countries I would actually a little bit be skeptical with his remarks if you look at the top 15, top 20 almost 6 in we're accessing top 50 are countries that are best with good weather with rain, rivers, mountains with beautiful landscape us 60, when we start we start looking at the sub-saharas and countries that are deprived from natural resources in terms of rain and forest and so on so this is why I want you to look at China, I'll make a final remark population you can look from there China is different from Sweden different from Holland different from Denmark China ranks I think 54 1, 2, 112 Russia is ranked 64 those countries are massive in terms of size, borders huge population India itself has thousands and thousands of religions, of languages of different mindset, cultures they're not kind of unified but if you look at smaller countries including the UAE there's some kind of unified to see grouping of countries at one group at a time what I can compare here to here when I share similarities in terms of either wealth or geographies or size of population whatever it is, I don't know maybe economic growth GDP there, capital or something but someone needs to look at grouping so that when I look at working against or with someone I look at someone within my own group I'd like to open it up to questions from the audience, I'll just very briefly if you want to hop in on that last question this gentleman just hand up and then that woman over here okay, is that okay? can you speak out loud? we can hear you, can everyone else? my name is Adelitz, I'm a member of the European Parliament, social democrat and I have a question we have a challenge that our commission doesn't respond, we have to develop a plan next year from the European Union so I wonder to the general representative as you said we need collaboration and partnership how do we partner up in the European Union and I know that then as we're also part of this report that they actually build up capacity in order to deliver on SDGs that we have a strategy and that we build a plan do you partner already with the commission what do you hear from them, thank you good question yeah, let's take a few questions there's a lot of hands in short time the woman in black hi, my name is Susan Pallett to raise something that Ms. Galvin talked about which was the auditing SDG 5 on gender equality how many other guides like that for other members of SDGs are my name is Diana Glassman and I'm a strategy consultant I wanted to understand your perspectives on the quality of the indicators within SDG 4 the quality education and also their relationship in terms of accelerating providing momentum, boost spillover whatever you want to call it to the energy and environment related SDGs hi, I'm just as eyes-fold I'm working for UNDP on an LGBTI inclusion index my question to you is how do you measure the premise of leave no one behind and reaching those left furthest behind first in an index like this and how do you ensure that that you really cover all the groups who are left behind in many countries okay, so I just want to remember in intra-EU collaboration specific goals within SDG 17 the quality of indicators in SDG 4 and education and the last question on to making sure that we have no one left behind the groups left behind so far maybe I should start I would like to mention I would have had some more acknowledgments for colleagues from battles among the SDGs I was interrupted that's okay but I would like to mention some more really positive aspects of the leave and the last question was on the family being not so good in the quality I remember I was a little bit surprised because you picked up this because we are not so bad in this we just sometimes go way to choose minimum wage and improved a lot the quality in Germany I was surprised that you did not mention for example biodiversity which is a problem in Germany everywhere maybe we are now yellow but the mechanism is in Germany that we have just a peer review chaired by Helen Clark the expo of UNDP and its prime minister of New Zealand a peer review report she pointed out 15 scientists and this goes along with the findings of the report of SDSN and battle fund she pointed out of track indicators and we are now working on them and trying to introduce them in our revising our national strategy for example we will introduce an indicator on biological agriculture just to understand how the mechanism works and then I was asked by the colleague from the European parliament about the role of the commission yes we think and we hope that we work that we cooperate with the commission to be a little bit more ambitious we we want the EU the commission to have a strategy on the same development this would be kind of far too because all countries have their national strategy on the same development there should not be a national European European countries not connected to European policy so we want a European strategy on the same development I think this is just maybe one comment to the question from the UNDP colleague on LNOB you have to ask this question to colleagues from the reform but I just want to mention it's very very very important to measure LNOB please no one behind by disaggregated data so we support a lot data development in partner countries because it's so important to know who are the ones who are left behind who are the poorest, the less educated the less healthy people so disaggregated data is a very important aspect of this OK quickly so in terms of guides for auditing the various targets right now the only one that does exist is a guide to auditing gender equality so right now of course and the Canadian Accountability Foundation it's the only one but just quickly on the leave no one behind there's a couple things that the audit institutions are struggling with how do we audit policy coherence how do we audit for leaving no one behind how are we going to actually go in there and check so auditors are working on this if you have any advice on how we go about auditing that please advise us but those are two issues that we're actually trying to put our fingers on in terms of an audit which audits are very structured and have clear criteria the government has to agree with the criteria before you go in so the government can say we want to put a woman on the moon and we can go in and say OK so do you have a rocket do you have a fuel do you have a plant do you have some women so that's what an auditor does and we would set out those criteria and the government would have to say we agree those are the things you should ask us so how do we audit should the governments aren't leaving anybody behind how do we develop audit guides for some of the other issues and in particular how do we audit for policy coherence I can't give you any advice for the European Union sorry the last part is about education and policy service other goals such as the renewable energy and climate change and I think all the goals are interrelated especially it's me and this happens so education it's very important it's vital and it serves all and it's interrelated with all the you talk about what does education should focus on in certain regions for example the UAE we're not the pioneer but there are pioneer countries people are being educated on artificial intelligence today in the curriculum from Kate now other countries are still doing the ABC the traditional curriculum so how do we go and address leaving no one behind one should speak the same language so this is an education and I think leaving no one behind is very important this is vital but it could go across the world leaving no youth not behind you look at certain countries even developed countries or even countries like the UAE there are certain groups that are deprived from sense you look at the homeless for example here or you look at some workers in certain parts of the world such as the media how can we actually address the needs of those people to ensure that they reach at least a good level of quality keeping in mind the last point from my side there are 232 keepers for the world the people who actually work on it know that it's very complex that's why we created T1 T1 is what's clear what can be measured T1 people are challenging these quality indicators now T2 and 3 they're still trying to figure out so it's ambiguous and I think this is where the state audit groups, the different experts, the governments, the civil society the different should actually work together to be part of defining T2 and T3 so that we don't fall into the same trap of arguing about T1 so this is my last point unfortunately we are going to have to leave behind a group of questions to apologize I hopefully go ahead with time for discussion afterwards I'd like to call up and express gratitude to Art Devois who's president and CEO of the Ferrelson Foundation and chairman of the executive board of the Ferrelson System for the lively and engaging discussion and thank you for the kind words on our work but also thank you for the critical responses and we hope that we get more in the exchange afterwards so that we can be inspired to improve the quality of our work if we continue our work we are very happy that so many organizations already are working with the instrument that we produced and it's not only the people in this panel but I can give you the example of two other institutions that put this report as a point of reference for their work and the National Parliament in Spain passed unanimously the recommendation to the government to correct policy progress using the annual SDG index and therefore so the parliament can use it as to follow the efforts of their governments second, the European Bank for Reconciliation and Development which is active also beyond the borders of Europe but also inside Europe and in the neighbors it uses it to assess where countries stand and what is actually needed what is necessary another remark to close this event is that I am very to this year's report on a positive note that it is possible to incorporate SDGs into the machinery of a government this government is doable it is possible and if you ask governments can you do that well maybe not all will say that they can do it but you can have your protection plan you can have your protection of Sri Lanka the three budget committee testing budget proposals on what do they do for SDGs Sri Lanka who could have thought that such a country would be a guided country in such a thing but you see all over the world you see budget allocations connections and the like action plans, coordination mechanisms primary committee budget allocations and the like but it is also very important that we not only look at the government machinery but that we also look at what other actors can do I am talking about NGOs academia, media, citizens and also citizens like you and me as consumers as Jeff rightly pointed out it is a responsibility that we stand together and we also should speak out for our responsibility in our engagement also as consumers I think the power of consumers will increase in the coming years that it will be detrimental in the system of our economy now I also want to thank John Mission for the hospitality and Ambassador Heusgerd for hosting us here today and of course the teams of SEHM and the members from SHIFTUM and Jeff already asked you to stand together there are some more people and thank you all for your formidable work now if we close this event we have to stand still at the moment in time where we are if the goals were agreed upon in 2015 and if they are to be reached in 2013 then we are not at the beginning of the process we have already used 20% of our time and next year it will be 25% so it goes on so time is ticking and it's a long road to achieve this goal so I want to close with remark that it is of really really great purchase to act upon this and develop further instrument to spur the action to reach these sustainable development goals in the time that I was working in OECD as Deputy Secretary General worked along on green growth and on social inclusion etc etc and then we collected examples for countries that had good results in reforms and then had bad results in reforms and then the ambassador said to me I can't present good cases but I cannot present the failures of my government and I said well take a wider span of time for pre-assistance so this is the way to go forward let's say that all the failures were made by pre-assistance but you are in charge now for your role with your country, with your government now and do little things no time to lose, thank you very much