Αρχική Διαβούλευση για το σχέδιο της Έκθεσης Εθελοντικής Αξιολόγησης της Ελλάδας (Voluntary National Report) σχετικά με τους Στόχους Βιώσιμης Ανάπτυξης (ΣΒΑ)Σχέδιο της Έκθεσης Εθελοντικής Αξιολόγησης της Ελλάδας (Voluntary National Report) σχετικά με τους Στόχους Βιώσιμης Ανάπτυξης (ΣΒΑ)Σχόλιο του χρήστη ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΗ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΜΑΜΑΓΑΙΑ | 26 Μαΐου 2022, 18:05
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    SDG2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Any positive elements, according to the Report, have been made after the takeover of the government by the ruling party (July 2019). It gives the impression that this is not a scientific work, but a promotion of government work. In fact, the impression is given that only in the last 2.5 years inspections are carried out. In addition, the data are incomplete, while any state funding is not exactly state, but European through the NSRF, especially since the EU decided Greece not to pay the national contribution, due to the 10-year economic crisis. The main priorities include the actions of the NSRF, which concern the period 2014-2020 and have not been updated (pandemic). There is no mention regarding what constitutes a sustainable diet, and much less so a sustainable agricultural model. None of the issues touched upon by the Farm to Fork strategy are discussed, namely: Percentage reduction in fertilizer and pesticide usage / % target for organic land cultivation and land set aside for carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection (payments for ecosystem services). There is no mention of the state of hunger in Greece (or each country/continent). On the contrary, the Report emphasizes the issue of obesity, which is more of an issue of health and less of an issue of hunger at all. This gives the impression that there is no hunger in Greece, since the main problem is obesity. Not enough attention is given to food security, and specifically the ratio of food exports and imports Linked to the point of food imports, a large share of those comes from meat. There is no mention regarding the impacts of excessive meat eating on the environment or human health. No progress is observed in any of the sub-goals SDG7 - clean energy Not enough focus is given on the electrification of public transport / freight / ferries / aviation, as most attention is given to private mobility (e.g., subsidies for private EVs) The simplification of RES permitting should not come at the expense of the environment and lack of public consultation. We welcome the announced measure regarding future support of Municipalities in setting up energy communities to tackle energy poverty. We call on the Government to expand it with a wider national support programme for energy communities, especially those utilizing VNM. Energy communities are recognised in the report, but hitherto there have been no national support programs - financial or otherwise. There is no mention about ongoing support to fossil fuel exploration and extraction programs, or a possible phase out date There are no sectoral decarbonisation targets or quantitative data, especially regarding hard-to-decarbonize sectors like aviation, shipping, construction and public transportation SDG 11 - sustainable cities There are no quantifiable targets on promotion of walking/cycling etc and how that relates to reduction of air quality No mechanisms for participatory and multi-stakeholder planning are discussed or envisioned No incentives are discussed towards helping Municipalities draft and realize their climate and sustainability plans SDG 12 - consumption Although the report acknowledges the poor state of waste management in Greece, it does not seek to identify the systemic roots of this problem Globally, natural and mineral resource extraction and processing account for more than 90% of global biodiversity loss and water stress impacts, and for approximately half of global climate change emissions. The report doesn’t discuss a binding national quantitative target of resource reduction (e.g., 65% - 5 tonnes per capita by 2050 - a level which in general literature is generally considered sustainable https://eeb.org/library/green-mining-is-a-myth/) Similarly there’s no sectoral targets and road maps of resource use reduction (e.g., agriculture, transport, buildings, military), nor monitoring mechanisms No emphasis is given on waste prevention (zero waste strategies) The report states that by January 2022 the practice of landfilling will be terminated in Greece - which is by no means happening. Producer responsibility is mentioned in the context of recycling of discarded products, but there’s no mention of mandating a percentage of recycled content, guaranteeing recyclability and repairability and banning planned obsolescence There is a lack of discussion on the issue of (illegal and legal) export of waste to third countries The phase out of single use plastic from the public sector has not been efficiently enforced or monitored. Everyday experiences show widespread use of plastic, by employees, as well as in public procurement of events organised by public bodies. We are particularly concerned with the return of waste incineration as a waste management practice in the region of Attica (Filis landfill, Schisto waste processing plant), as envisioned in regional plans. This exacerbates the phenomenon of (regional) environmental racism. As a country whose economy largely relies on tourism, we believe the latter to be a cross-cutting area across all of the 17 SDGs. Over the years the country has consistently failed to implement a model of tourism that respects local communities, locally-based development, and sustainability. SDGs 14 and 15 - Biodiversity 1. There is no assessment of the subgoals pertaining to Biodiversity protection by 2020: 2.5, 6.6, 11.4, 12.4, 14.2, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 15.1, 15.2, 15.5, 15.8, 15.9. 2. There is no mention of Greece’s conviction by the European Court of Justice regarding the infringement of Directive 92/43/EEC. https://bit.ly/3yWSNZT 3. The 5th periodic report on the global state of Biodiversity is not acknowledged. The latter shows that only 6 goals out of the 20 were achieved “partly” during the decade of 2010-2020. https://bit.ly/3lBaUMI 4. There is scant information regarding biodiversity planning for the next decade 2021-2030. At the global level the vision is to achieve “Harmony with Nature” https://bit.ly/3Pzj46o The current poor state of the marine ecosystem and the unlikely attainment of SDG 14 by 2030 in many countries like Greece raise serious concerns regarding the capacity of either country to maintain a classification of ‘‘no poverty’’ in the long term. Two solutions present themselves: either the countries shift rapidly away from their ocean dependence (difficult given the nations’ geographies and the central importance of ocean-based livelihoods), or they invest in ocean health. 14.4 By 2020, the goal effectively: (1) regulate harvesting, (2) end overfishing; illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; and destructive fishing practices, (3) and implement science-based management plans in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce a maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics will not be met since wild fishery production is relatively stable (2006–2015), but over 30% of marine fish stocks are overfished, and this percentage has been rising since the 1970s.