Sustainable Developmen T Report 2022
Sustainable Developmen T Report 2022
DEVELOPMEN
T REPORT 2022
We must rise higher to rescue the
Sustainable Development Goals – and
stay true to our promise of a world of
peace, dignity and prosperity on a
healthy planet.
By Group 5
Angiras Chawla
Khushi Pandey
Kunal Singh
Ratnesh Anand
Riya Chauhan
Vansh Batra
1. Peace, diplomacy, and
international cooperation are
fundamental conditions for the
world to progress on the SDGs
towards 2030 and beyond.
• Second, the G20 should greatly increase the lending capacity and annual flows of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs),
mainly through greater paid-in capital to these institutions, but also through greater leverage of their balance sheets.
• Third, the G20 should support other measures as well – notably increased ODA, large-scale philanthropy, and refinancing of debts
falling due – to bolster SDG finance for the LICs and LMICs.
• Fourth, the IMF and the credit-rating agencies need to redesign the assessments of debt sustainability, taking into account the
growth potential of developing countries and their need for far larger 0capital accumulation.
• Fifth, working together with the IMF and the MDBs, developing countries need to strengthen their debt management and
creditworthiness by integrating their borrowing policies with tax policies, export policies, and liquidity management, all to
prevent future liquidity crises.
5. Rich countries generate 6. At mid-point on the way to 2030,
negative international policy efforts and commitments
spillovers notably through supporting the SDGs vary significantly
unsustainable consumption; across countries, including among G20
Europe is taking actions. countries.
A GLOBAL PLAN TO FINANCE
T H E S U S TA I N A B L E
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
1. Education and social protection
2. Health systems
The need for
3. Zero-carbon energy and circular economy to
greatly expanded decarbonize and slash pollution
SDG financing 4. Sustainable food, land use, and protection of
biodiversity and ecosystems
financing
Increased philanthropic giving
G20 should declare, G20 should greatly G20 should support other
clearly and unequivocally, increase the lending measures as well notably
its commitment capacity and annual flows increased ODA
1.Environmental
3. Spillovers
and social 2. Direct cross 4. Peacekeeping
related to
spillovers border flows in air and security
economic and
embodied into and water spillovers
financial flows.
trade.
Four major priority areas
• Every year, SDSN mobilizes its global network of experts to track public statements by governments and the
strategic use of public practices in support of the SDGs.
• Six years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs in 2015, a majority of governments had by 2021
developed strategies and action plans to implement the goals.
• Many countries have also developed strategies for SDG monitoring. 46 out of the 61 governments covered in the
survey have adapted the SDG framework to their context and identified a set of nationally relevant indicators.
• Official speeches and government efforts to prepare voluntary national reviews (VNRs) are also relevant proxy
measures to gauge commitment to the SDGs.
• As in previous years, there is some discrepancy between expressed political support for the SDGs and integration
of the goals into strategic public policy processes, most notably national budgets.
• This discrepancy is evident also in COVID‑19 recovery plans. Among the 44 countries with national recovery plans
in place, we found that most (26) do not refer to the SDGs at all.
The Six SDG
Transformatio
ns Scorecards
• Education, Gender and Inequality
• Health, Well-Being and
Demography
• Energy Decarbonization and
Sustainable Industry
• Sustainable Food, Land, Water, and
Oceans
• Sustainable Cities and Communities
• Digital Revolution for Sustainable
Development
Governments’ SDG
Commitments versus
SDG Index Gaps
• Building on the SDSN survey of
government efforts for the SDGs as well
as the Six Transformations scorecards,
this year we present pilot scores rating
the commitments and efforts that
governments have made towards
achieving the SDGs.
• Pilot assessment reveals that policy
efforts and commitments for the SDGs
vary significantly across countries,
including among G20 countries.
Pilot Governments’ Commitment
and Efforts for the SDGs scores in
relation to national scores on this
year’s SDG Index. Benin and Nigeria,
for example, have large gaps in their
SDG Index yet also earn relatively
high scores for their policy efforts
Post-pandemic, traditional
approaches to survey
taking, data production, and
The value of developing The importance and value
analysis will no longer
data that is fit-for purpose of cross-sector partnerships
satisfy user needs – non-
traditional approaches are
required.