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

TA-10-2025-0159 · P10_TA(2025)0159 · PE768.093

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Parliament's resolution on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum reaffirms commitment to the 2030 Agenda and calls for accelerated action across all SDGs. It addresses the five SDGs under review: health (SDG 3), gender equality (SDG 5), economic growth and decent work (SDG 8), oceans (SDG 14), and global partnership (SDG 17), urging specific measures for each. The resolution calls for increased financing, policy coherence, and EU leadership, including a comprehensive EU SDG strategy and alignment of the next multiannual financial framework with the SDGs.

Key points

  1. Regrets that the world is off track to achieve the SDGs by 2030 and calls for broad, accelerated action across all goals.
  2. Urges the EU and member states to work towards providing an additional USD 1.3 trillion per year for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.
  3. Calls for gender mainstreaming in all EU policies and funding, and for closing gender data gaps.
  4. For SDG 3, calls for universal health coverage, action on non-communicable diseases, and alignment of EU air quality standards with WHO guidelines.
  5. Calls for the right to safe and legal abortion to be included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and for access to sexual and reproductive health services.
  6. For SDG 5, calls for ending violence against women, ensuring 85% of new external actions have gender as a significant objective, and increasing funding for gender equality.
  7. For SDG 8, calls for policies promoting decent work, youth employment, and a just transition, and for the adoption of the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.
  8. For SDG 14, calls for a global treaty on plastic pollution, an international moratorium on deep-sea mining, and ratification of the UN High Seas Treaty by all member states.
  9. For SDG 17, calls for upholding ODA commitments of 0.7% of GNI, debt relief for developing countries, and reform of global financial institutions.
  10. Calls for a comprehensive EU SDG strategy with concrete targets and for the next multiannual financial framework to be fully consistent with the SDGs.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions and member states, which are called on to implement SDG-related policies and increase funding.
  • Developing countries, particularly least developed countries, which are to receive increased ODA and debt relief.
  • Women and girls, who are targeted by calls for gender equality, ending violence, and access to reproductive health.
  • Civil society organisations, which are to be protected and involved in SDG implementation.

Figures and deadlines

  • USD 1.3 trillion per year for climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as loss and damage.
  • 85 % of all new external actions to incorporate gender as a significant or principal objective.
  • 0.7 % of gross national income on ODA and 0.2 % as ODA to least developed countries.
  • 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