AGENDA 2030’S GOAL: CULTURAL HERITAGE THE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE CITIES

Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the most ambitious plan in the world, is an agreement that the UN has never reached before, as it is an action plan for human beings, the planet and the prosperity. Links between cultural heritage and sustainable development have also been integrated in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: in particular, Target 11.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls to ‘[strengthen] efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage’, in order to achieve Goal 11. The present document carries the justification for such a goal and puts forward several targets and indicators, including the presentation of some pilot-sustainable cities’ cultural heritage in Europe. Everybody is convinced that the international community will be able to agree on the content of this Goal. It is now time for culture heritage to be at the heart of a positive transformative change, as is the key for sustainable cities.