UK fails to progress on SDGs
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A newly released report has revealed that, since 2018, the UK has only made good progress on 17% of its targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
By Heather Dinwoodie
- The UK has only made progress towards 23 of its SDG targets, while stalling on 65 and regressing on 18.
- Its findings come as the government is introducing a range of policy measures that risk taking the country even further off track.
- The achievement of the SDGs, by the UK and other nations around the world, will demand a far more holistic perspective that considers specific contexts, stakeholder influence and the various interconnections between the goals and their associated targets.
The UN Global Compact Network UK has released its Measuring Up report, which comes as the first complete update to its SDG progress series since 2018. The report assesses the country’s performance against each of the 17 goals and their collective 169 targets.
It concludes that, overall, the UK’s progress towards the SD...
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