Sustainable Development Goals
Main SDG introduction
World leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a historic UN conference in September 2015. The SDGs call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet, thereby recognizing that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies to build economic growth, address social needs, tackle climate change and ensure environmental sustainability.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the sustainable management of productive forests in the tropics, and a sustainable tropical timber trade, can help in meeting future wood demand and achieving the SDGs. ITTO is empowered to promote the expansion of international tropical timber trade from legal and sustainable sources. It is perfectly placed, therefore, to assist countries in their efforts towards all the SDGs, especially SDG 1 (“No poverty”), SDG 12 (“Responsible consumption and production”), SDG 13 (“Climate action”) and SDG 15 (“Life on land”). Some of the ways it is doing this are outlined below.
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ITTO promotes sustainable tropical forest management with the equitable participation of local communities as an effective means for enhancing inclusiveness, socioeconomic development and resilience in human settlements, both rural and urban.
ITTO projects:
- Encourage community forestry in rural areas.
- Help develop locally based forest enterprises—including centres for processing wood and other forest products—in villages, towns and cities.
Related ITTO contributions for the selected Sustainable Development Goal(s)
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ITTO and IUFRO release learning modules to encourage forest landscape restoration
Quality education Sustainable cities and communities Climate action Life on land Partnerships for the goalsDoubling of world resource consumption by 2050 shows need for sustainable tropical timber—new report
Industry, innovation and infrastructure Sustainable cities and communities Climate action Life on landDeveloping the bamboo industry in Indonesia
No poverty Gender equality Industry, innovation and infrastructure Sustainable cities and communities Responsible consumption and production Life on landWhen micro businesses have macro impact
No poverty Quality education Gender equality Decent work and economic growth Industry, innovation and infrastructure Sustainable cities and communities Responsible consumption and production