Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

ACTIVE ON NATIONAL LEVEL
DIALOGUE WITH FEDERAL STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES
level and, in some cases, to civil society
and the business sector. The NHKs come
together for multi-day conferences every
year and also use various other exchange
formats. The aim is to jointly create sustainability
activities, develop strategies and
draw up reports. The regular discourse on
the programmes, projects and developments
in the context of sustainable development
in Austria makes it easier for the
NHKs to involve all relevant levels during
the implementation their projects.
Successful cooperation
Thanks to the work of the NHKs, several
collaborations could already be launched
and successfully implemented at the
Provincial Governors’ Conference (Landeshauptleutekonferenz)
and the State Environmental
Officers’ Conference and the
State Environmental Officers’ Conference.
For example, the NHK-K was commissioned
in 2009 with the coordination for
the further development as well as the
implementation of the “Austrian Strategy
for Sustainable Development” (ÖSTRAT). In
addition, the NHK-K, with its working group
on “Decentralised Sustainability Strategies
- Local Agenda 21” (DNS), established on
behalf of the State Environmental Officers’
Conference, makes an important contribution
to aligning the regional and local
sustainability processes and promotes the
involvement of the municipalities in the
local implementation process of the 2030
Agenda.
The NHK-K also contributed at the second
SDG Dialogue Forum: to present the diversity
of activities for implementation of
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