Facilitator's message, May 7

Hi Everyone,

We are now close to the end of Week 2 of activity in 2030 Compass CoLab – Exploring synergies and trade-offs between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Thank you all for your submitting your ideas.

If you are able to visit the platform over the weekend, we encourage you venture outside of your field of expertise and submit contributions in areas where you have some knowledge and experience. Of course, you can still make contributions within your specialty. We would also invite you to read others’ contributions and comment on those you find interesting.

With this note, we also want to share a recording of a Zoom meeting we held on Thursday this week. In this meeting, we explain the thinking that has led us to assess SDG interactions by examining the influence of factors and why our web form invites you to submit different interactions scores for countries that are at high, medium, and low levels for the factor you selected.

You can watch the recording through the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/-baeztpj7GNOAqS334b07OJdYxlkyQ3eRfunK44dor-u8vKdxajKShl3OpD8IvJF.trXNw1YBAJWWurKy
Access Passcode: XHY2#6NE

The meeting is 1 hour long. In the first half hour participants introduce themselves and their backgrounds, and the last half hour is a brief presentation about the rationale behind the platform and Q&A.

Thank you all once again. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or comments.

Best wishes,

Sara

Economic and social factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Per capital income	$15,000 and higher (20 percent above World Bank threshold for high income countries)	$4,000 and lower (World Bank's lower-middle and low income countries)
Level of urbanization	More than three-quarters of people live in urban areas	Less than two-fifths of people live in urban areas
Gender equity	Women's educational attainment and labor force participation are equal to or higher than men's and parliamentary representation is nearly equal	Women's educational attainment and labor force participation are half or less than men's and parliamentary representation is one-tenth or less

Physical infrastructure factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Energy access	Everyone has access to electricity and clean cooking fuels	Less than three-quarters of people have access to electricity and less than one-quarter have access to clean cooking fuels
Water/Sanitation	Everyone has access to clean water and safely managed sanitation	Less than two-thirds of people have access to clean water and less than half have access to safely managed sanitation
Transportation	Ports, airports, roads, and railroads never rated low or very low quality by logistics experts	Ports, airports, roads, and railroads rated low or very low quality by logistics experts half the time or more
Information & communication technologies	Everyone has a mobile subscription and three-quarters of people or more can access the Internet	Less than three-quarters of people have mobile subscriptions and less than one quarter can access the Internet

Human infrastructure factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Governance	In top quarter on surveys and expert assessments that evaluate voice, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption	In bottom quarter on surveys and expert assessments that evaluate voice, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption
Social protection policy	Spend more than 15 percent of GDP on social protection	Spend less than 4 percent of GDP on social protection
Participation in global economy and institutions	In top quarter on multi-dimensional index of economic, political, and social globalization	In bottom quarter on multi-dimensional index of economic, political, and social globalization
Education	Everyone attends secondary school and more than two thirds obrtain post-secondary education	Less than two-thirds of peopleattend secondary school and less than one-fifth obtain post-secondary education

Environmental factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Environmental health and ecosystem viability	Top quarter on index that assesses air and water quality; air pollution and GHG emissions; and status of water resources, fisheries, forests, and habitats	Bottom quarter on index that assesses air and water quality; air pollution and GHG emissions; and status of water resources, fisheries, forests, and habitats
Material footprint	Per capita material footprint is 21 metric tons or greater	Per capita material footprint is 3.5 metric tons or less