Title: 4 - Stakeholders seize the SDGs (10 videos)
Course: Sustainable Development Goals (Advanced)

The videos in this section focus on the appropriation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by non-state actors, such as businesses, civil society, citizens and youth. As this mobilization of all must be able to rely on mobilizing forces, the contributions of finance, trade unions or the media to the setting in motion of society as a whole are analyzed.

Stakeholder s embracing the SDGs

Jean-Paul Moatti, Chairman and CEO of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), provides some background information on the ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals by non-state stakeholders, such as companies, citizens, finance and the media. He highlights the need to build new coalitions of stakeholders to address these challenges.

SDGS: stakeholders committed for the common good

Bettina Laville, President of Committee 21, analyses the universal and multi-stakeholder nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She draws on recent history, from 1992 to today, to understand this emergence and shows that this partnership dynamic embodies the current need to ensure the common good.

Can the SDGs help to structure the actions of civil society?

Guy Aho Tete Benissan, Regional Coordinator of the West African NGO Platform Network (REPAOC), explains what civil society organizations can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In this regard, he shows that issues of networking, skills, partnerships and innovation are essential.

We shall attain SDGs with the citizens

Vaia Tuuhia, General Delegate of 4D Association, discusses the ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by citizens. She emphasizes the need to build on people's daily lives, to involve them in building a desirable future, and to offer them a positive narrative of our future. Several civil society initiatives in support of the SDGs are highlighted.

Agenda 2030, an agenda for and by the youth

Joséphine Raynauld and Jason Dozier, Vice Presidents of CliMates, present the role of youth and their ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals. Joséphine Raynauld starts by talking about their mobilization, before highlighting the opportunities offered by the 2030 agenda for this youth to initiate local and international solutions.

How do businesses contribute to the general interest in the world?

Pierre Victoria, Director of Sustainable Development for Veolia, shows how companies have taken on board the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He first analyses the evolution of society's expectations towards companies, before highlighting 3 possible levels of ownership of these SDGs.

SDGs: which stakeholders involved to reach the social goals?

Philippe Portier, National Secretary of the CFDT, presents the contribution of trade union organisations to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. He describes a number of actions, implemented at a local level and in companies, aimed at promoting democracy and the quality economy.

The mobilisation of financial stakeholders around the SDGs

Pierre Ducret and Maria Scolan of the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) discuss the ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals by the public and private finance sectors. Pierre Ducret traces its evolution and puts forward an analysis of the elements that promote and limit this ownership.

How to talk about SDGs? Media facin the long term

Maïmouna Abdallahi Saleck, independent journalist and president of the NGO BiodiverCités, discusses the role of the media in promoting society's ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals. She first highlights the different types of information to be provided and the different types of investigations to be carried out, before underlining the importance of training journalists and partnerships to achieve this.

How to adress the need for a wider mobilisation in favour of SDGs?

Laurie Ayouaz, Head of "Sustainable Territories" at Comité 21, shows the mobilization of the various societal stakeholders in favour of the Sustainable Development Goals. First of all, she presents its aims before describing an initiative, the Tour de France des SDGs, whose objective is to strengthen the ownership of these Goals and Agenda 2030 by a wide audience.