Investigating the UN System Wide Framework of Strategies on the Environment for supporting the implementation of the environmental dimensions of the 2

世界是一个复杂的地方，不能简单地通过研究一个系统或在一个部门内工作来理解。2015年，联合国发布了可持续发展目标，这是一套相互关联的17个全球目标，为和平、繁荣和环境保护提供了蓝图。不幸的是，尽管这些目标具有整体性，但无论是从如何实施这些目标，还是从如何监测实现这些目标的进展情况来看，往往都是独立地加以考虑。特别是，环境如何与经济和社会目标相互作用是非常困难的，也没有得到很好的理解。与此同时，联合国系统本身在落实可持续发展目标以及如何处理环境问题方面并不统一。因此，联合国系统内的不同机构在环境问题和更广泛的可持续发展目标方面有自己的任务，整个联合国的合作有限。2014年，提出了联合国全系统环境战略框架(SWF)，作为支持更广泛的联合国系统落实可持续发展目标的环境层面的协作框架。然而，到目前为止，这方面的工作收效甚微，该项目的目的是支持主权财富基金的改进发展，并提供数据，说明环境问题如何支撑可持续发展目标的整体实现。该项目将探索环境与更广泛的可持续发展目标之间的关系，并探索不同的联合国机构如何互动，特别是在可持续发展和环境管理领域内。最终，该项目将提供一个改进的主权财富基金，以及一份评估这一新系统适用性的测试案例报告。该项目将利用定量和定性数据收集和分析技术，并在学术和决策部门开展工作。总体而言，该项目的成果将直接影响到如何在整个联合国系统乃至全世界实现可持续发展目标。

The world is a complex place that cannot be simply understood through the study of one system or working within one sector. In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 inter-related global goals that provide a blueprint for peace, prosperity and environmental protection. Unfortunately, despite the holistic nature of these goals they are often considered independently, both in terms of how they are implemented and how progress towards them is monitored. In particular, how the environment interacts with economic and societal goals is very difficult and not well-understood. At the same time, the UN system itself is not uniform in its approach to the implementation of the SDGs and how it tackles environmental issues. Consequently, different agencies within the UN system have their own mandates with respect to environmental issues and the SDGs more broadly, and there is limited collaboration across the UN. In 2014, the UN System Wide Framework of Strategies on the Environment (SWFS) was proposed as a collaborative framework to support the wider UN system in delivering on the environmental dimensions of the SDGs. To date, however, this has had little success and the aim of this project to support the improved development of the SWFS and also provide data to demonstrate how environmental issues underpin the delivery of the SDGs as a whole. The project will explore the relationships between the environment and wider sustainable development goals and explore how different UN agencies interact, particularly within the sphere of sustainable development and environmental management. Ultimately, the project will deliver an improved SWFS alongside a test-case report evaluating the applicability of this new system. The project will draw on quantitative and qualitative data collection and analytical techniques and work across both the academic and policy-making sectors. Overall, the outcomes of this project will feed directly into how the SDGs are delivered across the UN system and consequently, across the world.