Sustainable Development in the European Union – 2025 Overview

 
Cover of the 2025 edition of Eurostat’s “Overview of progress towards the SDGs in an EU context.” The design mirrors the full report cover, featuring a white tree with multicolored leaves, this time on a grey-blue background. The Eurostat and SDG logos appear below the tree.

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Sustainable Development in the European Union – 2025 Overview

Overview of Progress Towards the SDGs in an EU Context

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Giczi, Johanna et al. (ed.) 2025: Sustainable Development in the European Union. Overview of Progress Towards the SDGs in an EU Context. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

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The 2025 overview brochure accompanies Eurostat's ninth regular report monitoring progress towards the SDGs in an EU context. Ecologic Institute's authors covered the chapters on SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 13 (Climate Action), SDG 14 (Life Below Water), SDG 15 (Life on Land) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). The brochure is available for download.

This brochure is a 'light' version of Eurostat's publication 'Sustainable development in the European Union – 2025 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context', conveying its main messages in a visual and concise way. The brochure builds on the EU SDG indicator set, which comprises around 100 indicators structured around the 17 SDGs. It presents a statistical overview of trends for each indicator, described on the basis of a set of specific quantitative rules and focusing on short-term trends over the past five years. For a detailed presentation of the EU trends and a description of the methodology, please refer to the full Eurostat SDG publication.

 

Overview of EU progress towards the SDGs over the past 5 years.

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Editor-in-chief
Johanna Giczi (Eurostat, Unit E2 — Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development)
Editors
Markus Hametner, Mariia Kostetckaia (WU Vienna); Arturo de la Fuente, Hendrik Doll, Kathrin Gebers, Merja Jalava Hietanen, Remko Hijman, Ágnes Lesznyák, Christine Mayer, Friderike Oehler, Åsa Önnerfors (Eurostat, Unit E2 — Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development)
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Carolyn Avery, Felicity McDonald (Haymarket Media Group Ltd). Art direction: Paul Frost

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European Commission, Eurostat (Eurostat), International
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978-92-68-22576-9 (print)
978-92-68-22575-2 (pdf)
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climate, energy, sustainability, SDGs, development, water
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