Framing the future

Progress to date, at the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda, is far off track, and projections show that the world will not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, the future is not a given, and there is ample room for Member States of the United Nations, local governments, business leaders and other actors to take action to prepare for and shape the future – up to 2030 and beyond. This chapter looks forward at the changing context for sustainable development at the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda. It highlights important trends and conditions that will deeply affect prospects for meeting the Goals. It reviews how action and governance of the Sustainable Development Goals, while so far not showing visible results on Goal achievement, is taking root and how the Goals offer a robust and broadly supported framework for sustainable development. Finally, it reviews new knowledge about sustainable pathways that the Sustainable Development Goals framework has unlocked: understanding interlinkages between goals, and international spillover effects.

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