United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

• The Patented Medicine Price Regulation program is mandated to protect against excessive pricing of pharmaceuticals.
• Although this mandate does not allow for price reviews to target priority equity groups, non-excessive prices for patented medicines will most benefit those directly affected by wealth inequality. Likewise, savings from any resultant price reductions can enable reinvestments in the health system. 
• The PMPRB’s new regulatory framework aims to more effectively capture, prioritize, and investigate medicines at a high risk of excessive prices.
• A broader basket of comparator countries under the revised Patented Medicine Regulations gives the PMPRB more accurate tools to ensure that list prices set in Canada are in line with peer countries.

• The Patented Medicine Price Regulation program supports UN Global Indicator 10.4: Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

• Health impacts and inequalities resulting from the effects of climate change will require flexibility in health system spending for payers in coming years.
• The Patented Medicine Price Regulation program is an essential cog in the work underway to develop and maintain a sustainable healthcare system that will allow payers to be responsive to the needs of Canadians.
• The Pharmaceutical Trends program contributes to this project by furnishing analytic reports that support informed policy development for initiatives such as the development of a national Pharmacare program, the establishment of a Canadian Drug Agency, and the development of a rare disease strategy.

• The Patented Medicine Price Regulation and Pharmaceutical Trends programs supports UN Global Indicators 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries and 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.