“…While many stakeholders welcomed the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015 as a paradigm shift, a certain sense of disillusionment has already set in. More than two years have passed, but what has been achieved?
Following Switzerland’s announcement that it will present a progress report to the
UN in July, the civil society organisations that make up the Platform Agenda 2030 have been busy drafting their own parallel report. In doing so, they have not followed the UN guidelines for country-led reports. Instead, they have defined the topics and issues they feel to be most important.
The result is a broad spectrum of insights and analyses of the challenges and need for action – both in Switzerland and by Switzerland – that are involved whenever political decisions taken at home spill over and affect other countries…”