EU 2020 SDGs Progress Report
Most recently published EU progress report towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - 2020 (22/06/2020)!
The European Union policies & European Treaties have been firmly committed to sustainable development and achieving UN SDGs (the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015), have given a new impetus to global efforts for achieving sustainable development, with particular emphases on transition to a climate-neutral and resource-efficient economy. The EU progress reports toward SDGs have became the Eurostat’s regular reports monitoring progress towards the SDGs in an EU context. The current, fourth one, states that overall EU has made progress towards almost all these goals over the past five years and represents the latest contribution to the debate on the shape of Europe and the world in 2030 and beyond, and on the action that must be taken to get to actual achievement of foreseen goals.
The published progress report builds on the EU SDG indicator set, developed in cooperation with a large number of stakeholders. The indicator set comprises around 100 indicators and is structured along the 17 SDGs. For each SDG, it focuses on aspects which are relevant from an EU perspective. The monitoring report provides a statistical presentation of trends relating to the SDGs in the EU over the past five years (‘short-term’) and, when sufficient data are available, over the past 15 years (‘long-term’). The indicator trends are described on the basis of a set of specific quantitative rules.
■ SDGs and me — 2020 edition: innovative digital publication aims to help understand what the 17 SDGs are about and provide info and the situation of specific country compared to others. It offers easy understandable visualisation tools for a selected sub-set of the 100 EU SDG indicators.
■ Sustainable development in the European Union — Overview of progress towards the SDGS in an EU context — 2020 edition: of Eurostat's publication Sustainable development in the European Union — 2020 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context, conveying the main messages in a visual and concise way.