On September 28th, the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) launched its 2017 Report on “Italy and the Sustainable Development Goals” during a meeting at the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
The Report has three main components. First, it presents an assessment of Italy’s progress in the implementation of the SDGs. Second, it details a list of concrete proposals for the Italian government to consider in the next budget law and in subsequent policy developments. Finally, it proposes an innovative analytical model to forecast possible pathways for sustainable development in Italy based on a series of different policy scenarios to 2030.
With respect to the role of the EU, the 2017 Report argues that after its decisive contribution to the negotiation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the European Union has not moved fast enough to enshrine the SDGs in its own analytical and political processes. ASViS emphasizes that the implementation of the Agenda represents a major opportunity for anchoring the European vision to the challenges of the 21st century, and should be at the center of both the revision of the Europe 2020 Strategy and the political debate around the 2019 European Parliament’s elections. From this perspective, the Parliament and Council’s responses to the European Commission’s Communication on a new European Action for Sustainability signal the need for a change of pace, and accordingly invite the Commission itself to develop a coherent strategy, a clear timeline and a global gap analysis that can support bolder ambitions towards the achievement of the Goals.
During the event, ASviS (a network of over 170 institutions and civil society organizations working to promote the implementation of the SDGs in Italy) also presented the new ASviS open-access database, which includes information on more than 170 SDG indicators and allows for easy data visualization and comparison across different time spans and spatial scales.
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Synthesis
Executive Summary (Italiano)
Executive Summary (English)
Learn more about the ASviS Database
Learn more about the SDG Indicators
