SDSN Association Paris

EU Legislative Interests

European Green Deal Sustainable Development and SDGs, including the "Delivering on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals - a comprehensive approach - staff working document" Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy EU climate neutral by 2050 EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Farm to Fork strategy EU voluntary review 2023 (SDSN Europe contributed to the first EU Voluntary Review by attending the workshop organized by the European Economic and Social Committee in Autumn 2022 and taking part in the online consultation process launched by this body and the European Commission. Since then, SDSN has strongly collaborated with the EESC. SDSN also contributed to the dissemination of the EU public consultations.

Communication Activities

Publications: 2022 - 2022 Policy brief: Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets - Implementing the European Green Deal Through Transformational Change (2022) - Financing the Joint Implementation of Agenda 2030 and the European Green Deal (2022) - Europe Sustainable Development Report 2022 -From Global Commitments to National Action: A Closer Look at Nationally Determined Contributions from a Food and Land Perspective. 2022 Update. -Tracking forced labour, accidents at work and climate impacts in EU's consumption of fossil and mineral raw materials (2022) 2023 -Transforming Our World: Interdisciplinary Insights on the Sustainable Development Goals (2023) https://sdsn.eu/sdsn-senior-working-group-third-report-2023/ 2024 - Europe Sustainable Development Report 2023/24 - SDSN provided technical support to the new study on Beyond GDP commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD). The study proposes a GDP+3 framework of three headline indicators complementing GDP, each covering one of the three 2025 - Europe Sustainable Development Report 2025, https://eu-dashboards.sdgindex.org/ - Sustainable Food Systems as a Driver for the Implementation of the SDGs https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/publications/sustainable-food-systems-driver-implementation-sdgs - Understanding and measuring international spillovers, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Events: - How the EU Cohesion Policy Contributes to the SDGs: Lessons for the COVID-19 Recovery (2021) - Launch of the Europe Sustainable Development Report (2020) - Launch of the Europe Sustainable Development Report (2021) - The 2021 Zero Emissions Solutions Conference (2021) - The SDGs in Times of Crises (2022) -Tracking forced labour, accidents at work and climate impacts in EU's consumption of fossil and mineral raw materials (21 Nov 2022) -2022 Europe Sustainable Development Report Launch (22 November 2022) -Strengthening the EU’s Leadership on the SDGs – Civil Society and Expert Contributions for the UN HLPF and Beyond (4 April 2023) -Developing Systemic Solutions for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation through Multi-Stakeholder Approaches (17 July 2023) -"Europe’s Future and the SDGs: Featuring the launch of the Europe Sustainable Development Report" (25 January 2024) - Technical workshop: "GDP+3: New metrics for prosperity" (27 February 2024) -EU Elections webinar series: "Connecting European Citizens: Student Mobility Across the EU" (15 April 2024) -EU Elections webinar series: "Net Zero: Making the Way Towards a Carbon Neutral Europe" (2 May 2024) -EU Elections webinar series: "Inclusive Societies and Inclusive Institutions Within the EU" (22 May 2024) Launch of the Europe Sustainable Development Report 2025, in partnership with the European Economic Social Committee, Brussels, 29 January 2025, Brussels 10th European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) Peer Learning Platform,23 April 2025, the Dutch Permanent Representation in Brussels Financing Europe's Sustainable Future at the European Parliament, May 21, 2025, Measuring International Spillover workshop with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and OECD, 12 June 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, Spain, June 30- July 3, 2025, SDSN organised a series of side events, including Financing the SDGs Towards 2030 and 2050

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

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Organisation Members

The SDSN mobilizes the world’s academic and research institutes and leverages their strengths to help realize the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. The SDSN pursues its mission by working with member institutions in countries around the world, organized into networks at the national and regional level. Each network focuses on distinct projects and priorities in line with their local contexts and challenges. See: https://www.unsdsn.org/networks-overview