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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)


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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in France

France is deeply committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals designed to tackle global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice by 2030. France integrates these goals into its national policies and engages in international cooperation to promote sustainable development globally.


National Implementation and Monitoring:
France has established a comprehensive framework for implementing and monitoring the SDGs:

  • The Ministry for the Ecological Transition: Coordinates national efforts to achieve the SDGs, ensuring alignment with domestic and international sustainability policies.
  • The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE): 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, tailoring 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 France

High-level Political Forum, United Nations

Voluntary National Review 2016

France strongly supported the United Nations’ adoption in September 2015 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which sets 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the world to eradicate extreme poverty, combat inequalities and protect the planet.

This first universal approach provides a new framework for development policies for the next 15 years. It builds on the eight Millennium Development Goals implemented since 2000, which have contributed to real progress with tackling hunger, poverty and child mortality, rolling back pandemics, and improving access to water and education.

Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, the new Sustainable Development Goals have a universal dimension and apply to all development challenges in all countries. In addition to the poverty reduction goals, the agenda features new goals to which France is equally attached with respect to environmental protection, gender equality, universal medical coverage, tackling illicit financial flows and corruption, and good governance.
Given our long-standing, unremitting commitment to sustainable development, France has volunteered to present its 2030 Agenda implementation approach at the very first high-level political forum held since the adoption of this agenda.

This report draws on consultations with civil society to present a first review of the implementation of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in France, identifying the main issues and challenges, government courses of action, and good practices and model measures already in place in a spirit of experience sharing.
sustainabledevelopment.un.org/memberstates/france

UNDP

Human Development Index (HDI) | Human Development Report

Published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.
hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/FRA


France Diplomatie

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: How is France doing? (May 2017)

France’s financial commitments for development were clarified by the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) on 30 November 2016. France will increase the funding of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD, French Development Agency) Group’s funding for sustainable development by €4 billion by 2020, €2 billion of which will be dedicated to climate. At the same time, an extra €400 million will be allocated to the most fragile countries in the form of bilateral grants. France will increase its climate effort with a commitment of €5 billion by 2020, and is promoting financing with climate co-benefits.
diplomatie.gouv.fr/2030-agenda