Resolution Number: 2018-B026
Title: Endorse the UN Sustainable Development Goals as the Basis for Policy and Action
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church embrace the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as the successor to the Millennium Development Goals; and be it further

Resolved, That the Sustainable Development Goals become the basis of development policy and action of the Episcopal Church in its institutions, dioceses, and congregations; and be it further

Resolved, That 0.7% of the budget for the Episcopal Church adopted at the 79th General Convention be devoted to development projects shaped by the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals, during the triennium 2019 – 2021.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Austin, 2018 (New York: General Convention, 2018), p. 1056.

Legislative History

Author: The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Stewardship & Socially Responsible Investing

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Stewardship and Socially Responsible Investing presented its Report #7 on Resolution B026 (Embracing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) and moved adoption.

Original Text of Resolution:

(B026)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 79th General Convention of The Episcopal Church embrace the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as the successor to the Millennium Development Goals; and be it further

Resolved, That the Sustainable Development Goals become the basis of development policy and action of The Episcopal Church in its institutions, dioceses, and congregations; and be it further

Resolved, That 0.7% of the budget for The Episcopal Church adopted at the 79th General Convention be devoted to development projects shaped by the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals, during the triennium 2019 – 2021.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #146)

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Stewardship and Socially Responsible Investing presented its Report #2 on HD Message #146 on Resolution B026 (Embracing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) and moved concurrence.

Motion carried

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #310)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 12.

Abstract:   The 79th General Convention affirms the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as the basis for economic development policy and a percentage of budget funding of the Episcopal Church.