The Europe Sustainable Development Report 2023/2024 (5th edition) delivers a comprehensive, data-driven evaluation of how the European Union, its member states, and partner countries are progressing toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the recent European Parliament Elections, the formation of a new College of European Commissioners, and the upcoming UN Summit of the Future, this edition outlines 10 key actions for the new EU leadership to fast-track SDG implementation both within Europe and globally. In an increasingly fragmented and multipolar world, the report underscores the urgent need for the EU to take bold steps to prevent critical environmental and social tipping point.

ARSINOE has released the first policy brief to raise awareness about the nine case studies of ARSINOE to the relevant stakeholders and its potential benefits for mitigating climate change. After a short presentation of the nine case studies, this policy brief will focus on the expected benefits in the European context.

The Europe Sustainable Development Report 2022 is the fourth edition of our independent quantitative report on the progress of the European Union, its member states and partner countries towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year's report is a special edition in support of the upcoming EU Voluntary Review and the next United Nations' Heads of State Summit on the SDGs. To that end, this year's edition also presents 10 contributions from scientists and practitioners on ways to strengthen the EU's SDG leadership at home and internationally.

The FELD Action Tracker as a strategic initiative of the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) tracks developments around food and land use, globally and in key countries. Ahead of COP27, the FELD team updated and expanded its systematic analysis of nationally determined contributions issued in the previous year. The updated analysis applied a sharp focus on what concretely NDCs provide in terms of explicit priorities, commitments and targets related to food and land use, and the extent to which they focus on action and implementation follow up in countries and across sectors. The analysis also expanded its scope from an original set of 15 NDCs in 2021, to now 24, including all G20 members, key forested, FOLU and other key countries, together representing nearly 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the most ambitious international effort to integrate the three dimensions of sustainability into a universal vision for the future, but the interconnectedness of its 17 SDGs requires national and local governments to overcome siloization and consider existing synergies and trade-offs. This book, edited by Laura Cavalli, Manager of SDSN Italy, and Sergio Vergalli, and including texts by Angelo Riccaboni and Phoebe Koundouri, provides a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with a geographical focus on applications in different African regions.

Since 2015, the Sustainable Development Report provides the most up-to-date data to track and rank the performance of all UN member states on the SDGs. The report was written by a group of independent experts at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), led by its President, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. A global plan to finance the UN Sustainable Development Goals is urgently needed, according to the report, and multiple and simultaneous international crises have halted progress on the universal goals adopted by all UN member countries during the historic 2015 summit.

In a world where climate policy increasingly requires the radical reduction of emissions wherever possible, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), the co-host institution of SDSN Russia, explores a different approach to the decarbonization of the Russian economy. According to the analysis of the RANEPA, the Russian economy can achieve 100% decarbonization using a wide range of feasible combinations of wind and solar power generation coupled with green hydrogen production.

On May 3rd 2022, SDSN’s European Green Deal Senior Working Group launched the second annual report, entitled ‘Financing the Joint Implementation of the SDGs and the European Green Deal’. The report provides an overview of the EU policies published since 2020 in support of the implementation of the European Green Deal and explores the financial implications of the Joint Implementation of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the European Green Deal, emphasizing the need for private financial flows to be directed towards sustainable projects and activities.

The Task-force on international cooperation of which Adolf Kloke-Lesch is a member, recommends that G7 takes an extra effort and invests its political and economic clout in intensified international cooperation for the global common good, by linking up its activities with other partners, by bolstering inclusive global governance institutions, and through tethering plurilateral and multi-stakeholder formats to a strengthened United Nations and other multilateral organizations.

How do Nordic and European organisations support Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation at the local level? Which initiatives are relevant for different Nordic countries? This report considers localisation efforts and serves as a guide, with the references providing information and background on selected Nordic and European SDG localisation efforts, reflecting important objectives, priorities, and key activities of the different institutions, organisations, and programmes.

As humanity’s current production and consumption patterns exceed planetary boundaries, many opinion leaders have stressed the need to adopt green economic stimulus policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, in line with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. This paper, produced by the team at SDSN Cyprus, provides an integrated framework to design an economic recovery strategy aligned with sustainability objectives through a multi-criterion, multi-stakeholder lens.

Already before the pandemic, the EU was facing difficulties in implementing the 2030 Agenda. Recovery measures to address the pandemic’s short- and medium-term socio-economic consequences will determine whether the EU moves towards a sustainable development model by 2030 or locks in unsustainable pathways instead.