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Achieving the SDGs: Europe's Compass in a Multipolar World: Europe Sustainable Development Report 2022

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  • Guillaume Lafortune
  • Grayson Fuller
  • Leslie Bermont Diaz
  • Adolf Kloke-Lesch
  • Phoebe Koundouri
  • Angelo Riccaboni

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In September 2015, the international community adopted the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In doing so, all 193 UN member states signed off on 17 goals to promote socioeconomic prosperity and environmental sustainability. Earlier that same year, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda for financing development had been adopted, while the close of the year saw the conclusion of the Paris Climate Agreement. Yet seven years on, the world is significantly off-track to achieving most of these goals, and multiple crises have led to a reversal of SDG progress. From the outset, Heads of State agreed that a number of countries each year (around 40) should present reports on their progress towards the SDGs, in so called 'voluntary national reviews'(VNRs) and that leaders would meet every four years to review global SDG progress and agree on a path forward. In July 2023, the EU is to present its first Union-wide voluntary review at the United Nations. This presents a good opportunity for the EU to send a strong message to the international community and to demonstrate its commitment to and leadership on the SDGs. A few months later, in September 2023, Heads of State will again meet under the auspices of the UN General Assembly in New York for the second SDG Summit (the first was held in 2019). Following the SDG Summit, the Summit of the Future, in September 2024, will debate and hopefully lead to the adoption of a Pact for the Future to include major reforms of multilateral institutions and sustainable development finance. This year's Europe Sustainable Development Report (ESDR 2022) aims to support both of these processes and contribute to strengthening the EU's SDG leadership at home and internationally.

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  • Guillaume Lafortune & Grayson Fuller & Leslie Bermont Diaz & Adolf Kloke-Lesch & Phoebe Koundouri & Angelo Riccaboni, 2022. "Achieving the SDGs: Europe's Compass in a Multipolar World: Europe Sustainable Development Report 2022," DEOS Working Papers 2235, Athens University of Economics and Business.
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    1. Sachs,Jeffrey & Kroll,Christian & Lafortune,Guillame & Fuller,Grayson & Woelm,Finn, 2021. "Sustainable Development Report 2021," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009098915.
    2. Sachs,Jeffrey & Kroll,Christian & Lafortune,Guillame & Fuller,Grayson & Woelm,Finn, 2021. "Sustainable Development Report 2021," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009102896, May.
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    SDGs; Sustainability; Transformations; Green Deal; Spillover;
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    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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