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REPORT (2025/2014(INI))

On implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum

A-10-2025-0125

Committee on Development Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Robert Biedroń, Nikolas Farantouris

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This resolution sets out Parliament's position ahead of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum, covering the state of SDG implementation and in-depth reviews of SDGs 3, 5, 8, 14 and 17. It calls for accelerated action, more financing, and policy coherence to achieve the SDGs by 2030, and urges the Commission to develop an EU SDG strategy.

Committee position. The Committee on Development and the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety propose a resolution setting out Parliament's priorities for the 2025 HLPF, calling for accelerated action and increased financing for the SDGs.

Key points

  1. Reaffirms commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, and regrets that the world is severely off track.
  2. Calls for urgent action to address the triple planetary crisis and to reduce inequalities, with a focus on the most vulnerable.
  3. Urges the EU and member states to provide additional climate finance of USD 1.3 trillion per year for developing countries.
  4. Calls for gender mainstreaming in all EU policies and funding, and for closing gender data gaps.
  5. On SDG 3, calls for universal health coverage, access to sexual and reproductive health services, and action on non-communicable diseases and air pollution.
  6. On SDG 5, calls for ending violence against women, ensuring sexual and reproductive rights, and increasing funding for gender equality.
  7. On SDG 8, calls for decent work, stronger labour rights, and support for youth employment and small enterprises.
  8. On SDG 14, calls for protecting marine ecosystems, ending overfishing, and adopting a global treaty on plastic pollution.
  9. On SDG 17, calls for increased ODA, debt relief for developing countries, and reform of global financial institutions.
  10. Calls for a comprehensive EU SDG strategy and for the next multiannual financial framework to be consistent with the SDGs.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions and member states: called on to implement SDGs, increase ODA, and integrate SDGs into policies.
  • Developing countries: targeted for increased financial support, debt relief, and climate finance.
  • Women and girls: focus on gender equality, ending violence, and ensuring sexual and reproductive rights.
  • Civil society organisations: called for deeper involvement and protection of civic space.

Figures and deadlines

  • USD 4 trillion annual investment gap to achieve the SDGs.
  • 0.7 % of gross national income target for ODA; collective ODA stood at 0.57 % in 2023.
  • USD 1.3 trillion per year for climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as loss and damage.
  • 85 % of new external actions to incorporate gender as a significant or principal objective.
  • 20 % of ODA in each country to be allocated to programmes with gender equality as a principal objective.
  • 30 % of marine and coastal areas to be protected by 2030.

Legal basis: Article 3(5) of the Treaty on European Union and Articles 13 and 208(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.