In November 2017, the European Commission published its 2017 Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring report.
This publication provides a statistical overview of trends relating to the SDGs in the EU over the past five years (‘short-term’), based on the 100 indicators chosen.
It claims that over the last five years, the EU made moderate progress in eight SDGs. Such moderate trends can be seen in SDG 4 ‘quality education’, SDG 17 ‘partnership for the goals’, SDG 9 ‘industry, innovation and infrastructure’, SDG 5 ‘gender equality’, SDG 8 ‘decent work and economic growth’, SDG 1 ‘no poverty’, SDG 2 ‘zero hunger’ and SDG 10‘reduced inequalities’.
In the case of four goals — SDG 6 ‘clean water and sanitation’, SDG 13 ‘climate action’, SDG 14 ‘life below water’ and SDG 16 ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’ — trends cannot be calculated due to insufficient data over the past five years.
Strangely enough, the summary gives no information on the remaining 5 SDGs, nor an explanation of why that information is missing.
