As normas voluntárias de sustentabilidade podem auxiliar na elaboração das Revisões Nacionais Voluntárias

The document examines how voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and can be leveraged by governments to overcome data gaps in their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). Through an analysis of 13 international and regional standards, the authors demonstrate high coverage of goals related to decent work (SDG 8) and clean water (SDG 6). The brief provides practical guidelines for governments to integrate VSS data and case studies from countries like Uganda, India, and Tanzania into their national reporting to improve policy coherence and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

• Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) can help governments address data availability challenges, particularly in the Global South, by providing detailed monitoring and evaluation data that can supplement state-centered aggregated data for Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs).
• VSS contribute to specific SDG targets through diverse mechanisms: SDG 2 via land rights and soil health; SDG 6 through water quality and pollution prevention; SDG 8 via adherence to ILO conventions on forced and child labor; SDG 12 through banning hazardous chemicals; and SDG 15 through forest conservation and biodiversity planning.
• Case studies in Uganda, India, and Tanzania illustrate the practical impact of VSS on SDG targets, such as Fairtrade International's training in Uganda improving women's land title acquisition (SDG 2 and 5) and Cotton made in Africa's (CmiA) investment in school infrastructure in Tanzania to reduce child labor (SDG 8).
• The document proposes five guidelines for governments to integrate VSS into VNRs: identifying stakeholder engagement processes, utilizing institutional mechanisms for data collection, using VSS content criteria as evidence for specific targets, reporting on how VSS fill data gaps and mobilize finance, and selecting best-practice case studies.
• The use of VSS across multiple sectors can enhance public policy coherence by creating synergies and reducing conflicting demands between different SDGs.

APA

Kosolapova, E., & Larrea, C. (2023). As normas voluntárias de sustentabilidade podem auxiliar na elaboração das Revisões Nacionais Voluntárias. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-07/ssi-review-standards-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-summary-pt.pdf

Chicago

Kosolapova, Elena, and Cristina Larrea. As normas voluntárias de sustentabilidade podem auxiliar na elaboração das Revisões Nacionais Voluntárias. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2023. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-07/ssi-review-standards-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-summary-pt.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{kosolapova2023normas, author = {Kosolapova, Elena and Larrea, Cristina}, title = {{As normas voluntárias de sustentabilidade podem auxiliar na elaboração das Revisões Nacionais Voluntárias}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-07/ssi-review-standards-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-summary-pt.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }