Communication of SD and the SDGs

The 16^th ESDN Workshop took place in Berlin, Germany from 19-20 November 2018. The topic of the workshop was: “Communication of Sustainable Development and the SDGs: Strategies and Good Practices”. The workshop, which was organized over two half-day sessions, from 19 to 20 November 2018, was hosted by the ESDN in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. 

The ESDN recognizes that the role of communication in the implementation of sustainable development, in general, and the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, in particular, is very important. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda need to be embraced not only by policymakers and experts in the field, but also by all the different stakeholder groups, in order to achieve their objectives in practice. However, the 17 SDGs and their specific targets are still mostly known by only relatively small groups of people. Therefore, the main objective of this workshop was to look into the needs for successfully communicating SD and the SDGs by highlighting good practice examples of communication strategies and reflect upon future needs of being able to better communicate SD and the SDGs. This included a reflection on the recommendations of the peer review of the German SD Strategy and the new strategy to communicate sustainable development in Germany.