Wellbeing, Environmental Sustainability, and Just Transition

Task Force 2

This task force focuses on social and environmental challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate change agreement commitments after COVID-19.

It takes into account persistent inequality and pressures on livelihoods, amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which have hampered health and wellbeing and exacerbated poverty. It seeks to promote coordinated action to strengthen social protection, including sustainable financing for social safety nets, global health security, demographic transition, labor mobility, and education policies. It is also considering ways to address climate change and environmental stresses while ensuring no one is left behind and that the benefits of a low-carbon and climate resilient future are shared by all.

Suggested policy brief topics include: (i) strengthening wellbeing, diversifying livelihoods, and achieving social inclusion; (ii) achieving a healthy and educated population; (iii) climate and environmental policies and finance; and (iv) implementing the principles for a just transition to maximize the benefits of achieving climate targets for all while minimizing associated costs.

Co-Chairs

Global Solutions Initiative
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

Coordinators

Experts

Nazarbayev University
Asian Development Bank
TERI School of Advanced Studies
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
National Institutes of Health, Islamabad Pakistan
University of Buenos Aires
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
National University of La Plata
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Development Programme
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
International Institute for Sustainable Development
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Boston University Global Development Policy Center
African Urban Institute
Boston University Global Development Policy Center
Photo: Steffen Bauer is a senior researcher at German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany, and head of DIE's Klimalog project
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative