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Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance
Less than seven years remain for Europe to meet the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However robust and accurate methods for assessing SDG progress are currently lacking. Through the development of several SDG indices, this study addresses this critical knowledge g...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10306182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37379339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287771 |
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author | Murphy, Enda Walsh, Patrick Paul Murphy, Ethan |
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description | Less than seven years remain for Europe to meet the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However robust and accurate methods for assessing SDG progress are currently lacking. Through the development of several SDG indices, this study addresses this critical knowledge gap by providing the means to accurately identify national ’problem areas’ and thereby accelerate SDG achievement. Specifically, an indicator-based approach has been used to create a composite index containing 166 unique SDG indicators that assess a nation’s SDG performance compared to the best and worst performers in the European Union (EU). Our results indicate that each EU nation is on average, 58% of the way towards the best performer in the overall SDG indicator framework. A nuanced taxonomy has been developed that allows for the assessment of SDG performance in several critical dimensions of the SDGs, including in ’Means-of-Implementation (MoI)’, ’Linkage’, and ’Outcome’ indicators. The index’s comprehensive framework allows for EU’s performance in individual SDG indicators to be investigated while providing the most accurate assessment of national SDG performance, to date. Overall, the indices presented in this paper can significantly enhance the understanding of SDG performance while concurrently guiding national and EU SDG policy development. |
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spelling | pubmed-103061822023-06-29 Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance Murphy, Enda Walsh, Patrick Paul Murphy, Ethan PLoS One Research Article Less than seven years remain for Europe to meet the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However robust and accurate methods for assessing SDG progress are currently lacking. Through the development of several SDG indices, this study addresses this critical knowledge gap by providing the means to accurately identify national ’problem areas’ and thereby accelerate SDG achievement. Specifically, an indicator-based approach has been used to create a composite index containing 166 unique SDG indicators that assess a nation’s SDG performance compared to the best and worst performers in the European Union (EU). Our results indicate that each EU nation is on average, 58% of the way towards the best performer in the overall SDG indicator framework. A nuanced taxonomy has been developed that allows for the assessment of SDG performance in several critical dimensions of the SDGs, including in ’Means-of-Implementation (MoI)’, ’Linkage’, and ’Outcome’ indicators. The index’s comprehensive framework allows for EU’s performance in individual SDG indicators to be investigated while providing the most accurate assessment of national SDG performance, to date. Overall, the indices presented in this paper can significantly enhance the understanding of SDG performance while concurrently guiding national and EU SDG policy development. Public Library of Science 2023-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10306182/ /pubmed/37379339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287771 Text en © 2023 Murphy et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Murphy, Enda Walsh, Patrick Paul Murphy, Ethan Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance |
title | Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance |
title_full | Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance |
title_fullStr | Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance |
title_short | Nation-based peer assessment of Europe’s Sustainable Development Goal performance |
title_sort | nation-based peer assessment of europe’s sustainable development goal performance |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10306182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37379339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287771 |
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