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 …
This report presents a scientific blueprint for how climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can be tackled jointly within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. The report is a synthesis based on evidence from global environmental assessments.
Part I of the report addresses how the current expansive mode of development degrades and exceeds the …
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”. …
The consequences of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it have led to one of the most serious recessions in recent history, characterized by, among others, a decline in economic growth, decreased trade, low business revenues and massive layoffs. Projections indicate that, in the next two years, the global economy is expected to lose nearly US$ …
This staff working document explains how the European Commission is taking forward its commitment to sustainable development, the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs through its internal and external action policies, while also monitoring progress at Member State and European Union levels.
This commitment has even greater relevance in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic …
Original title: La coherencia de políticas en el corazón de la transición a la sostenibilidad
The Spanish, multi stakeholder coalition Futuro en Común, explains the need to put Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development at the heart of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. At the end of the document, this policy paper gives recommendations to …
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 role of culture for sustainable development is reflected in a cross-cutting manner in many of the targets of Agenda 2030, thus the Agenda is essential to international cultural relations and external cultural policy on EU member states level, but also for the EU’s external cultural relations. In addition, the implementation of the Agenda applies …
The EU needs to step up action and lead the transformation to sustainability – Civil society SDG
monitoring report
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 …
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 …