Science is increasingly warning that the Earth, as a result of human activity, is currently on a trajectory towards environmental collapse. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by UN member states in 2015 as a means to reconcile human activity with planetary boundaries, allowing humanity to thrive while safeguarding Earth's life support. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the SDGs so far have lived up to their promise. Using Eurostat's SDG indicator set, the study calculates temporal progress measures of socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability for the European Union (EU) member states. To validate the findings, the two progress measures are compared with changes in the human development index (HDI) and the ecological footprint (EF). The study's results show that over the past five years of available data, most EU member states have seen socioeconomic progress combined with environmental degradation. The trends in the HDI and the EF corroborate this finding, suggesting that the trade-off between socioeconomic activity and environmental preservation continues to exist. SDG implementation should consequently put a stronger focus on the environmental dimension, to ensure that the pursuit of the 2030 Agenda's socioeconomic objectives does not undermine the ecosystem services humanity depends on.

科学界越来越多地警告说，由于人类活动，地球目前正处于环境崩溃的轨道上。联合国成员国于 2015 年通过了可持续发展目标 (SDG)，作为协调人类活动与地球边界的一种手段，使人类能够在保护地球生命支持的同时繁荣发展。本文的目的是评估迄今为止的可持续发展目标是否兑现了承诺。该研究使用欧盟统计局的可持续发展目标指标集，计算了欧盟 (EU) 成员国社会经济发展和环境可持续性的时间进展指标。为了验证这些发现，我们将这两个进步指标与人类发展指数 (HDI) 和生态足迹 (EF) 的变化进行了比较。研究' 结果表明，在过去五年的可用数据中，大多数欧盟成员国都看到了社会经济进步和环境恶化。HDI 和 EF 的趋势证实了这一发现，表明社会经济活动和环境保护之间的权衡仍然存在。因此，可持续发展目标的实施应更加关注环境层面，以确保追求 2030 年议程的社会经济目标不会破坏人类赖以生存的生态系统服务。