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Frontrunners and laggards: How fast are the EU member states progressing towards the sustainable development goals?
Ecological Economics ( IF 6.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106775
Markus Hametner , Mariia Kostetckaia

Abstract Since the adoption of the United Nation's 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, attempts to monitor their status of achievement are increasing by governments, the academic community and non-governmental actors. Particular focus is thereby put on constructing composite indices that allow benchmarking of countries according to their level of SDG achievement. Throughout the different rankings that exist, countries from northern Europe appear to be most advanced regarding SDG implementation. However, this picture is biased as these rankings typically refer to the relative position of countries in relation to all other countries included in the index at a certain point in time. Tracking countries' absolute progress over time towards the SDGs on the basis of such indices can therefore be misleading. The present paper proposes a new progress measure based on the Eurostat method for measuring progress towards the SDGs over time. Applying this measure to the EU Member States on the basis of the official EU SDG indicator set, we show that countries labelled as “SD leaders” hardly make further progress towards the SDGs, while strong movement towards the goals is visible in southern and eastern European countries that score rather low in existing indices. This new perspective suggests that to actually monitor progress towards achieving the SDGs, existing SDG indices should be complemented with a longitudinal perspective to assess development over time towards or away from the 2030 Agenda's objectives.

中文翻译:

领跑者和落后者:欧盟成员国在实现可持续发展目标方面进展有多快?

摘要 自联合国 2030 年议程及其 2015 年可持续发展目标 (SDG) 获得通过以来,政府、学术界和非政府行为体越来越多地尝试监测其成就状况。因此,特别关注构建综合指数,允许根据其实现可持续发展目标的水平对国家进行基准测试。在现有的不同排名中,北欧国家似乎在可持续发展目标实施方面最先进。然而,这张图片是有偏见的,因为这些排名通常是指某个时间点国家相对于指数中包含的所有其他国家的相对位置。因此,根据此类指数跟踪各国在实现可持续发展目标方面随时间推移的绝对进展可能会产生误导。本文件基于欧盟统计局的方法提出了一种新的进展衡量标准,用于衡量随着时间的推移实现可持续发展目标的进展情况。根据官方的欧盟可持续发展目标指标集将这一措施应用于欧盟成员国,我们发现被贴上“可持续发展领导者”标签的国家很难在实现可持续发展目标方面取得进一步进展,而在南欧和东欧可以看到朝着目标迈进的强劲势头在现有指数中得分相当低的国家。这一新观点表明,为了实际监测实现可持续发展目标的进展,现有的可持续发展目标指标应与纵向观点相辅相成,以评估随着时间的推移朝着或偏离 2030 年议程目标的发展。根据官方的欧盟可持续发展目标指标集将这一措施应用于欧盟成员国,我们发现被贴上“可持续发展领导者”标签的国家很难在实现可持续发展目标方面取得进一步进展,而在南欧和东欧可以看到朝着目标迈进的强劲势头在现有指数中得分相当低的国家。这一新观点表明,为了实际监测实现可持续发展目标的进展,现有的可持续发展目标指标应与纵向观点相辅相成,以评估随着时间的推移朝着或偏离 2030 年议程目标的发展。根据官方的欧盟可持续发展目标指标集将这一措施应用于欧盟成员国,我们发现被贴上“可持续发展领导者”标签的国家很难在实现可持续发展目标方面取得进一步进展,而在南欧和东欧可以看到朝着目标迈进的强劲势头在现有指数中得分相当低的国家。这一新观点表明,为了实际监测实现可持续发展目标的进展,现有的可持续发展目标指标应与纵向观点相辅相成,以评估随着时间的推移朝着或偏离 2030 年议程目标的发展。虽然在现有指数中得分相当低的南欧和东欧国家可以看到朝着这些目标迈进的强劲势头。这一新观点表明,为了实际监测实现可持续发展目标的进展,现有的可持续发展目标指标应与纵向观点相辅相成,以评估随着时间的推移朝着或偏离 2030 年议程目标的发展。虽然在现有指数中得分相当低的南欧和东欧国家可以看到朝着这些目标迈进的强劲势头。这一新观点表明,为了实际监测实现可持续发展目标的进展,现有的可持续发展目标指标应与纵向观点相辅相成,以评估随着时间的推移朝着或偏离 2030 年议程目标的发展。
更新日期:2020-11-01
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