Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Germany
Germany is firmly committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals designed to address global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice by 2030. Germany integrates these goals into its national policies and collaborates with various sectors to ensure sustainable development both domestically and internationally.
National Implementation and Monitoring:
Germany has established a comprehensive framework for implementing and monitoring the SDGs:
- The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMU): Coordinates national efforts to achieve the SDGs and ensures alignment with domestic and international sustainability policies.
- The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis): Monitors and reports on SDG indicators, providing data to track progress and inform policy decisions.
- Local Governments and Municipalities: Play a crucial role in implementing SDGs at the community level, adapting actions to local needs and contexts.
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Sustainable Development Report
The Sustainable Development Report (formerly the SDG Index & Dashboards) is a global assessment of countries’ progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a complement to the official SDG indicators and the voluntary national reviews.
› Sustainable Development Report Germany
High-level Political Forum, United Nations
Voluntary National Review 2016
Germany .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
The adoption of “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was a milestone in the recent history of the United Nations. This comprehensive agenda is a reflection of the conviction that global challenges can only be tackled through concerted efforts; efforts that must be based on systematic application of the principle of sustainable development across all policy areas and in every country. The international community has made a clear statement that resolute action must be taken to achieve a transformation towards sustainable development. Global and universally applicable sustainable development goals (SDGs) point to how we can achieve poverty reduction, an improvement in living conditions worldwide, and the protection of our planet.
Sustainable development means assuming responsibility – both for the present and for future generations, nationally and internationally. To make this happen, the agenda calls for governments, the economy and society to change and take action at global, regional and national level to ensure sustainability. Germany committed to ambitious implementation of the agenda from the very outset and has already taken some first important steps towards putting it into practice at national level.
› sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2016/germany