Learn about
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and Cannabis.
The Cannabis Embassy’s Permanent Mission to Vienna, New-York, Nairobi, and the Hague (part of the Ministry of External Affairs) has published 5 articles about Cannabis & 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets addressing poverty, health, education, gender equality, decent work, climate, biodiversity, peace, and international cooperation. It is the closest thing the world has to a shared, universal roadmap for the coming decades.
Cannabis is not a footnote to this agenda — it runs through it. As a plant cultivated across every continent, entangled with questions of poverty and rural livelihoods, health and harm reduction, gender, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, criminal justice, and climate resilience, cannabis policy directly shapes progress (or setbacks) on dozens of SDG targets. The Cannabis Embassy’s work at the United Nations — from the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to UNESCO’s Mondiacult and the 2030 Agenda review processes — treats sustainable development not as a separate silo from drug policy, but as the framework within which cannabis policy should be designed, debated, and evaluated.
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This topic is handled by the Permanent Mission to Vienna (and New-York, Nairobi, the Hague) under the Cannabis Embassy’s Ministry of External Affairs
The Cannabis Embassy’s Permanent Mission in Vienna (PM Vienna) is the Cannabis Embassy Government‘s body (under the Ministry of External Affairs) mandated to interact with international organisations headquartered in Vienna (Wien) as well as New-York, Nairobi, and The Hague (Den Haag).
Currently, the PM Geneva is engaged with:
- CND. Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Vienna)
- ECOSOC. UN Economic and Social Council (New-York)
- ICJ-CIJ. International Court of Justice (Den Haag)
- INCB. International Narcotics Control Board (Vienna)
- OLA. Office of Legal Affairs (New-York)
- UNEP. United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi)
- UNGA. United Nations General Assembly (New-York)
- UN-Habitat. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Nairobi)
- UNODC. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna)
- UNSG. United Nations Secretary-General (New-York)