SDGs and Growth in Practice: A Reflective Learning Journal-Sess 7

This learning journal entry focuses on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their relationship to growth. It begins with brainstorming questions about the session's topic, key points of SDGs, learning objectives, required readings, and future applications. The journal emphasizes the importance of goals, objectives, and indicators in achieving sustainable development, referencing the MDGs and the challenges in developing SDG guidelines. It highlights the need for a systemic approach to SDGs, addressing the complexities of social and environmental frameworks. The journal also discusses the importance of science in defining critical limits and developing progress paths towards achieving SDG objectives. References to academic papers are included to support the reflections and learning process.

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Questions for brainstorming
1. What is the topic of this session?
2. What are the key points of SDGs?
3. What do I seek to learn from this session of SDGs and growth?
4. What all do I need to read up to achieve my goal regarding SDGs and growth?
5. How can I use it for myself in the future?
Learnings
Goals are important in order to decipher into substantial detail the general idea of
reasonable development but are not sufficient. While targets provide guidance, they require
advance quantification with targets and indicators. From the point of view of an
administration cycle, goals, objectives and markers are fundamental to conceive of the future,
to create changes pathways and systems, to transform techniques into arrangements and
plans, to use them, to monitor progress and to obtain results. These markers were created to
meet the MDGs at the global level but also in many other contexts around the world and
throughout the sub-world. The development of the SDG's guidelines thus has a solid
substantive and procedural basis, but still faces major difficulties(Pinter, 2013). The MDGs
and their associated indicators related solely to the creation of countries but also the SDGs.
This creates the appropriate diversity of viewpoints, but also the various aspects of the
procedure. As SDGs gradually become convincing in the post-2015 motivation for
advancement, harder dealings are no less usual(Gotham, Onarheim & Barber, 2016). The
system for SDGs is the main concern of the calculated dimension. Although it has been
manageable for more than two decades as an idea and field of training, its definition,
interpretation and system remain liquid. Since the political order of the SDGs did not clarify
the system, the process has been left to be followed by the intergovernmental process and

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also by science. In any event, contrasts in consideration of frameworks, world perspectives
and vital concerns can make the agreement politically and procedurally intertwined (Davis,
Matthews, Szabo & Fogstad, 2015). The improvement of typical structures can be a major
element in social adaptation. The test is outstanding from over two years of training, which
concentrates on building support or comparative pointer frameworks which were often
necessary to handle the inquiry directly in the process. In a sense, it is not only in disciplinary
science that the centre test establishes SDGIs, as it identifies with individual SDGs
(Campagnolo, Carraro, Eboli & Farnia, 2016). In general, SDGs will also need to talk about
and expand on advancement parts of science that address issues at the basic level in order to
address the structure and connects between complex social and natural frameworks (SES).
Selecting and deciphering markers, characterising basic limits and tip focuses and developing
progress paths that link current conditions to and concentrate later on SD objectives will
require an interface with logical and science-based discussions.

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References:
Campagnolo, L., Carraro, C., Eboli, F., & Farnia, L. L. (2016). Assessing SDGs: a new
methodology to measure sustainability Retrieved from
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2715991
Davis, A., Matthews, Z., Szabo, S., & Fogstad, H. (2015). Measuring the SDGs: a two-track
solution. The Lancet, 386(9990), 221-222 Retrieved from
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)61081-9/fulltext
Gotham, D., Onarheim, K. H., & Barber, M. J. (2016). How the MDGs gave up on measuring
access to medicines. The Lancet Global Health, 4(5), e296-e297 Retrieved from
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)00066-8/fulltext
Pinter, L., (2013). Measuring progress towards sustainable development goals. Winnipeg,
Canada: International Institute for Sustainable Development.