Jan Servaes
As is the custom every year, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which has been operating under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General since 2012, discusses the progress made on the SDGs since they were adopted by all UN member states in 2015.
While concerns were already expressed in previous years, this 10th anniversary edition of the SDR is downright alarming. Limited and declining support for multilateralism within the UN by major powers, and insufficient budgetary space, pose major obstacles to achieving the global goals.
In preparation for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (Ff4D) scheduled for 30 June to 3 July in Seville, Spain, this SDR 2025 outlines urgent reforms to the Global Financial Architecture (GFA) and includes, for the first time, an assessment of which countries have made the most progress towards the SDGs.
The upcoming Ff4D conference therefore offers a crucial opportunity for UN member states to reform this system and ensure that international finance flows at scale to Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs) to accelerate sustainable development.
Since 2016, the SDR has provided the most up-to-date data to track and rank the performance of all UN member states on the SDGs. This year, more than 200,000 individual data points were used to produce more than 200 country and regional SDG profiles.
The SDR includes the SDG Index and dashboards, which rank all UN member states based on their performance on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s report includes a new index (SDGi), which focuses on 17 key indicators to track overall progress on the SDGs over time.
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