Submission to Senate Inquiry into the SDGs

In 2018, the Academy and FEA made a joint submission on Australia's engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to the Senate Committee on the UN SDGs. Australia's progress against the SDGs is mixed. Australia is ranked 26th of 157 nation states and 23rd in the OECD of 35 states. The submission acknowledged that: 

"implementation of the SDGs requires a consistent national framework to enable decision-making at state and local levels of government, and promote certainty for the business sector. To ensure transparency and accountability, it should be supported by an independent entity that has national and global reach, and the ability to leverage on greater collaboration with the academic community, to ensure a best practice evidence base informs policy, enabling the effective implementation of the SDGs"

To read the submission, download it here.