The pandemic has set back progress along the path towards implementation of the 2030 Agenda. One million deaths, deteriorating health and sanitation, the halt to normal education, the economic crisis and rising unemployment, increased violence against women during lockdowns and the financial difficulties of the poorest countries are just some of the factors that are …
As in previous years, this synthesis report provides an overview of the approaches and actions taken by all countries reporting in 2020, and showcases best practices, lessons learned, gaps and challenges encountered in working towards the achievement of the SDGs. Drawing from the VNR reports, key elements pertaining to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda …
Meeting the SDGs in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a serious setback for sustainable development in Europe and around the world, but the EU is right not to compromise on its vision or its values. The SDGs are the global affirmation of European values. They are the “future we want”. …
This publication, entitled ‘Sustainable development in the European Union — Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context (2020 edition)’, is the fourth in the series of annual monitoring exercises launched by Eurostat in 2017. It is based on the EU SDG indicator set that was developed to monitor progress towards the …
Ensuring sustainable consumption and production practices necessarily means respecting the planet’s biophysical boundaries and lowering current global consumption levels to match the biophysical capacity to produce ecosystem services and benefits.
Monitoring SDG 12 in Slovenia focuses on developments in the areas of decoupling environmental impacts from economic growth, energy consumption, and waste generation and management. …
The EU needs to step up action and lead the transformation to sustainability – Civil society SDG
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SDG Watch Europe, an EU-wide, cross-sectoral civil society alliance, has brought together its members from development, environment, social, human rights and other sectors to provide their expertise and to hold the EU to account on …
The success of our collective journey to 2030 will greatly depend on how effectively Governments, who are in the driving seat of implementation of this transformative and universal agenda, engage national parliaments, local authorities, indigenous peoples, civil society, the scientific and academic community and the private sector in follow-up and implementation efforts and bridge the …
The Sustainable Development Goals and Covid-19
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 presents the SDG Index and Dashboards for all UN member states and frames the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of six broad transformations. It was prepared by teams of independent experts at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the …
When the second government report on the implementation of the SDGs in 2020 was drafted, the NGOs prepared civil society’s report. Apart from the situation overview and the drafting of recommendations, the contributions also contain the implementation assessment of individual SDGs or of cross-cutting issues, an overview of civil society’s role in the implementation of …
The purpose of this SPOTLIGHT report is to illustrate how far Denmark is from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals nationally and to what extent Denmark contributes to achieving the goals abroad. This is the third time that Global Focus and the Danish 92 Group have made this report on the progress of the Danish implementation …