The SDG
Transformation Center
Science-based tools and analytics for SDG pathways, policies and financing
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SDSN supports WHO/Europe on assessing progress on the Ostrava Declaration for health, environment and the SDGs
This new report uses official statistics to assess progress made on implementing the 2017 Ostrava Declaration on Health and the Environment. SDSN’s Grayson Fuller, Manager of the SDG Index, presented the findings at WHO Europe’s Bonn Dialogues in September.
New SDSN paper - Adaptation, Loss and Damage: A Global Climate Impact Fund for Climate Justice
Ahead of COP28, a new paper by Jeffrey Sachs, Isabella Massa, Simona Marinescu, Samory Toure and Guillaume Lafortune investigates increasing climate costs triggered by human-induced climate change. The authors argue that increased funding for adaptation and loss and damages, particularly for SIDS, must go hand-in-hand with long-term resilience and sustainable development pathways.
Europe Sustainable Development Report 2023: Public Consultation now Closed
The consultation is now closed. We are pleased to invite you to a public consultation of the data used for the upcoming Europe Sustainable Development Report 2023, which will be published in December.
Rewatch SDSN's June 2023 event with the City of Paris on finance for sustainable development in cities and worldwide
In June 2023, SDSN and the City of Paris hosted an event on sustainable development finance with nearly 400 distinguished guests as part of the Paris Summit on a New Global Financing Pact. Speakers included Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes, the DRC’s Minister of Territorial Development Guy Loando Mboyo, Barbados’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Kerrie Symmonds, Rémy Rioux (CEO, French Development Agency) and more.
New SDSN report - Sustainable Development Report for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Prepared ahead of the 2023 SDG Summit and the SIDS4 conference in Antigua and Barbuda, the 2023 Sustainable Development Report for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) – for the first time – presents an edition of the SDG Index assessing where SIDS stand on SDG progress and introduces a new meaure, the Multidimensional Structural Vulnerability Index (MSVI).
SDSN supports WHO/Europe on assessing progress on the Ostrava Declaration for health, environment and the SDGs
This new report uses official statistics to assess progress made on implementing the 2017 Ostrava Declaration on Health and the Environment. SDSN’s Grayson Fuller, Manager of the SDG Index, presented the findings at WHO Europe’s Bonn Dialogues in September.New SDSN paper - Adaptation, Loss and Damage: A Global Climate Impact Fund for Climate Justice
Ahead of COP28, a new paper by Jeffrey Sachs, Isabella Massa, Simona Marinescu, Samory Toure and Guillaume Lafortune investigates increasing climate costs triggered by human-induced climate change. The authors argue that increased funding for adaptation and loss and damages, particularly for SIDS, must go hand-in-hand with long-term resilience and sustainable development pathways.
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Barbados — Not the US — Is Most Aligned with the UN Charter
As part of our academic research on how to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are examining the extent to which UN member states adhere to the UN Charter and UN-backed goals such as the SDGs. Towards this end, we have created a preliminary “Multilateralism Index,” and welcome feedback and suggestions.
Why SDG Transformation
Long-term investment plans are essential for national success in meeting the SDGs. SDSN has recommended six inter-related long-term transformations:
- Universal quality education and innovation-based economy
- Universal health coverage
- Zero-carbon energy systems
- Sustainable ecosystems, sustainable agriculture, and climate resilience
- Sustainable cities
- Transformation to universal digital access and services
Each of these challenges require large-scale public and private investments to mid-century. Each requires a technological transformation. Each requires a financing strategy to underpin the investment plans.
The SDG Transformation Center provides science-based tools and analytics to support the implementation of these Six Transformations. It is also a platform for learning and exchange. It builds on SDSN’s global network of researchers and scientists and a decade of work led by the SDSN on SDG data, analytics, and pathways.
SDG Index and Monitoring
Since 2016 we have produced the flagship Sustainable Development Report, including the SDG Index and Dashboards which rank countries on SDG attainment. This annual report and regional editions have become world-leading references for monitoring progress on the SDGs. Discover where your country or region stands!
For further information about the work we do at SDG Index and Monitoring:
SDG Financing
The SDGs are largely an investment agenda into physical infrastructure and human capital. They also require long-term planning and commitment. Many developing countries face major fiscal space constraints which represent significant barriers to achieving the SDGs. The Center aims to complement international efforts to scale-up sustainable development finance through thematic analyses and bilateral partnerships for long-term budget frameworks and pathways.
SDG Policies
Time lags in international statistics mean that outcomes-based assessments like the SDG Index often provide a snapshot of SDG performance as of two or three years ago. By tracking policy commitments, ambitions and actions we can provide timelier, more accurate evaluations of government efforts on the SDGs. SDSN develops conceptual and practical tools to track SDG policies.
International Spillovers
International spillover effects are the positive or negative externalities generated by the actions of one country on another – including on its ability to achieve the SDGs. The SDG Transformation Center studies and measures these international spillover effects so countries can develop policy solutions to address them.
Geospatial Tools
Geospatial data, tools and analytics provide useful, timely and granular information for targeted SDG action. Thanks in part to a partnership with Esri, the SDG Transformation Center develops new geospatial indicators and analysis to support evidence-based SDG pathways and policies for cities, regions and national governments.
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Solutions and Partnerships
The Center uses our tools, data and methods to provide targeted support to UN institutions, national governments, multilateral development banks, statistical offices and other stakeholders. Learn more about the process and outcomes of these cooperative projects.