For over a year now, many public and private actors have been engaged in the collective development of a roadmap for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in France. This roadmap is placed under the joint supervision of Secretaries of State Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs – MEAE) and Brune Poirson (Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition – MTES). Around three hundred stakeholders from a hundred structures have already made contributions.
This open and collaborative process is unprecedented. It aims to engage all stakeholders, along with the government, to address the overall challenges of the 2030 Agenda. Regions, companies, unions, researchers, associations, citizens, elected representatives, the ministries, media, etc. each has a role to play in building a shared and attractive roadmap. The State therefore encourages all actors to build coalitions on transversal themes such as inequality, which impacts almost all the SDGs. The blueprint must be drawn using the principles of participation and transparency and a multi-level approach.
One of the objectives of the roadmap is to ensure that France’s policies and actions in favour of sustainable development are consistent, both nationally and internationally. The aim is to build relationships between the various objectives targeted by public policies, often pursued in parallel, in order to make them more effective and operational. Specifically, this is a matter of seeking synergies and removing contradictions between policies by removing the obstacles that hamper a transformative change.
The need to change our practices and to adapt, while leaving no one behind, only reinforces the usefulness of this approach and the collective action taken by France. There is also a real resonance between the 2030 Agenda, with its inclusive ambitions, and the current issues facing French society, issues which are also intertwined with the national great debate, the roadmap of which must be taken into account.
MAGALI PINON-LECONTE
DIRECTOR, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, MTES