Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

Annelies Vilim
© Anna Rauchenberger
Special Representative of the Austrian Federal Government
for Humanitarian Aid and former Managing
Director of AG Globale Verantwortung
The time of thinking and
acting with a silo mentality
is finally over
many goals, for example climate protection
measures (SDG 13) or partnerships for the
achievement of the goals (SDG 17).
Austria’s second SDG Dialogue Forum: Use
different approaches to implement the
2030 Agenda together
The 2030 Agenda and its 17 goals for sustainable
development show us the way out of
diverse crises which we are confronted
with worldwide. For the people in the
countries of the Global South there is a
potential for various crises: climate crisis,
hunger crisis, conflicts, health crises up
to life-threatening spirals and increased
poverty and hunger. Therefore it is more
important to drive this future-oriented
action plan of the UN, so that we do not
stumble from one crisis to the other. And
many reports do show that the ambitions
of most countries are recently not
sufficient to implement the 2030 Agenda.
Even Austria could do better in the case of
Austria’s second SDG Dialogue Forum in the
autumn of 2022, and above all, the process
leading to it have shown the potential
of partnerships for the achievement of
the goals: representatives from the world
of politics, administration, civil society,
science and business used their different
approaches to develop the solutions for
social, ecological and economic challenges
together. The result of the forum is a crosssector
implementation partnership on
resilience in the area of food security.
Since multiple global crises have a direct
impact on the food supply for people in the
Global South, resilient food systems are
essential for survival for those nearly 830
million people who are starving now. The
aim of the partnership is to develop the
courses of action for Austrian development
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