The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals were agreed in 2015 by UN member states, offering a roadmap for governments and all societal stakeholders to work together towards a sustainable future. Central to this quest is the need to balance the three dimensions of sustainable development including through broad stakeholder engagement. The 2030 Agenda emphasises that the SDGs are “indivisible, interlinked and universal” and their achievement depends on stakeholders working in partnership on integrated approaches that account for these interlinkages.
Here, you will find links to key international documents, reports, and research on the 2030 Agenda. This list is not intended as an exhaustive one but rather seeks to provide a short selection covering recent and later contributions, academic articles and policy reports, and the diverse array of approaches.
Summit of the Future Outcome Document. This document was adopted on 23 September 2024 during the Summit of the Future at UN Headquarters in New York. You can find further information here.
Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, you can find the document in all six UN languages here.
SDG Summit 2019 Political Declaration. You can find the document in all six UN languages here.
SDG Summit 2023 Political Declaration. You can find the document in all six UN languages here.
Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda. You can find the document in all six UN languages here.
The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023. In addition to finding the 2023 GSDR document to download, the UN’s Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2023 website has a wealth of information on the GSDR process.
UN DESA (2024), Policy Brief No. 164, The Integrated Nature of the Sustainable Development Goals as a Lever for Trust, Institutional Resilience and Innovation.
UN Expert Group on Climate and SDG Synergy (2024) Synergy Solutions for Climate and SDG Action: Bridging the Ambition Gap for the Future We Want: Report on Strengthening the Evidence Base, Second Edition.
Bennich et al., (2023). Recurring patterns of SDG interlinkages and how they can advance the 2030 Agenda. One Earth.
World Public Sector Report 2023, Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic.
Widerberg et al. (2023) Nexus governance for transformative change: Technical report of the Transform 2030 data set.
Breuer et al., (2023). Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: Approaches, opportunities, and challenges, Routledge.
Allen et al., (2023). Modelling six sustainable development transformations and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages.
Van Tulder, R., & van Mil, E. (2022). Principles of Sustainable Business: Frameworks for Corporate Action on the SDGs. Routledge.
Horan, D. (2022). A framework to harness effective partnerships for the sustainable development goals. Sustainability Science, 17(4), 1573-1587.
Breuer, A., Janetschek, H., & Malerba, D. (2019). Translating sustainable development goal (SDG) interdependencies into policy advice. Sustainability, 11(7), 2019.
Nilsson et al., (2018). Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward. Sustainability Science, 13, 1489-1503.
ICSU (2017) A Guide to SDG Interactions: from Science to Implementation. International Council for Science. Le Blanc, D. (2015). Towards Integration at Last? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets. Sustainable Development, 23(3), 176-187.
In addition, you can search the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) complete sustainable development documents archive, including SDG goal-specific documents – here.