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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been adopted as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and act as a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), therefore it is important to build on MDGs achievements and address gaps and weakness that remain unresolved and thereby make proper preparedness towards the 2030 Agenda. Despite the remarkable progress that Bangladesh and Indonesia made across many of the MDGs, there is an inherent tension to secure successful sustainable trajectory. Gaining environmental sustainability while aiming for inter-linkages and synergies between environmental, social and economic dimensions remained unresolved issue as both countries more or less implemented development efforts in isolation, with inadequate consideration of the potential impacts on the environment. This paper, therefore, seeks to address gaps in environmental governance in both countries for gaining environmental sustainability and for national preparedness toward the SDGs. While aiming this goal, this article presents a diagnostic status of the current progress on environmental governance in Bangladesh and Indonesia through development indicators to achieve MDGs and their determinants in relations to environmental sustainability. The comparison of these two cases provides fruitful insights to draw lesson on how environmental governance need to be addressed at the level of individual low and middle income countries for their preparedness and transition to the SDGs.

Environmental Governance and National Preparedness towards 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A Tale of Two Countries