Abstract
“The United Nations Rio+20 summit in 2012 committed governments to create a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after their 2015 deadline”. “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity”. Climate change has emerged as an important challenge to achieve sustainable development. Climate change can exacerbate hunger, poverty and food insecurity in Asian developing countries through its negative impacts on food production. This chapter explores these interlinks and the synergies and trade-offs among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the perspective of Sri Lanka. Achieving the SDGs for Sri Lanka will be a great challenge. Nevertheless, the state-society synergy is a very useful tool to encourage a bottom-up process. Civil society, the private sector, academia and the professionals can play a pre-eminent role in the implementation of the SDGs. Institutions and actors must focus on their capacity to achieve progress on key nationally identified SDGs. Sri Lanka must develop cross-cutting coordination mechanisms to allocate resources, share data and information, facilitate research and innovation, and build capacity to respond to climate change.
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However, the incidence of moderate poverty (i.e. the percentage of the population living below US$ 3.10 per day) was still high at 14.6% in 2012–2013.
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Gamini Herath, “The dengue menace: can Sri Lanka ever get this right” (The Daily Mirror July 21, 2017).
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Health and the SDGs in Sri Lanka, World Health Organization, Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka ranks 100th in the Gender Gap Index (Asian Mirror 2016). (https://www.facebook.com/english.asianmirror/)
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Department of Census and Statistics 2017 (pp. 36–44), Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Gamini Herath. The Dengue Menace: Can Sri Lanka ever get this right (The Daily Telegraph 21 July 2017).
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MUA Tennekoon argues that the recent droughts in the dry zone are due to land clearing in the Wilpattu National Park.
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Herath, G., Poon, W.C. (2021). Climate Change, Hunger and Food Security in Asia with Special Reference to Sri Lanka: Can the Sustainable Development Goals Be Achieved by 2030?. In: Venkatramanan, V., Shah, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Exploring Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7301-9_2
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