Following the publication of the EC Refection Paper, SDG Watch Europe published this reaction to express its disappointment.
SDG Watch Europe deeply “regrets that the paper stays very vague and does not contain any concrete plan, targets or timeline. Five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the EU is …
Following Switzerland’s announcement that it will present a progress report to the UN in July, the civil society organisations that make up the Platform Agenda 2030 have been busy drafting their own parallel report. In doing so, they have not followed the UN guidelines for country-led reports. Instead, they have defined the topics and issues …
Romania’s Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 defines Romania’s national framework for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, providing a roadmap for achieving the 17 SDGs.
This Strategy is divided into three chapters, as follows:
Chapter 1: Introduction looks at the recent history of Sustainable Development as a concept from an international, European, and …
With an ambitious new green public procurement policy, Copenhagen Municipality stimulates the demand for eco-labeled products and services.
Through the policy, Copenhagen demonstrates how public actors can motivate companies to produce sustainable products and services, thereby boosting the market. As a part of the new policy, the municipality and Ecolabelling Denmark will select two to …
Spotlight Review on the Report by Government of Latvia on Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Latvia.
By honestly revealing a part of the challenges the country faces, the Voluntary National Review by the Government of Latvia on Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals defines a range of positive development directions for sustainable development. …
The German Government invited the International Peer Group to review its Sustainable Development Strategy.
The main RECOMMENDATIONS are:
1. Keep what works, elevate what is good, and change what has failed to deliver.
2. Make the institutional architecture charged with implementing the GSDS more
effective.
3. Raise the level of ambition for …
In Germany and the Sustainable Development Agenda:This is how sustainability works! the authors and interview partners explain how sustainability policy can be actively shaped and where it has already been put into practice. Civil society and trade union initiatives
as well as measures at local level and examples from other countries serve to illustrate …
German 2018 shadow report. Only avaialbe in German.
Mit der Agenda 2030 und den Zielen für nachhaltige Entwicklung (SDGs) haben die Regierungen der Welt den Rahmen für die globale Nachhaltigkeitspolitik der kommenden zwölf Jahre gesteckt.
Die Agenda und ihre Ziele haben das Potential, auch die deutsche Politik auf Bundes-, Länderund kommunaler Ebene zu prägen. …
UKSSD report ‘Measuring up’ shows how the UK is performing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the first time. And while there’s an enormous amount to celebrate, the most vulnerable people and places in our society are increasingly being left behind.
Measuring up is the most comprehensive review of the current situation in …
The first section of this report – ‘General Reflections and Key Concerns’ – sets out some of the most pressing issues with regard to Ireland’s SDG performance from the standpoint of Coalition 2030. Chief among these are the weaknesses in Ireland’s recently-published National Implementation Plan; its poor performance in meeting commitments on overseas development aid …