WSDS 2025 Thematic Track - Accelerating Transformation: SDG Implementation and Climate and Biodiversity Goals

With just five years left to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR, 2024) highlights pressing needs to accelerate SDG implementation and transformation. The report demonstrates ideas and best practice experiences on how this could be achieved. India, as well as Germany will present their Voluntary National Review (VNR) at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York this summer 2025.

With these experiences at hand both countries can showcase obstacles and opportunities for preparing meaningful VNR and draw conclusions on how to trigger synergies of SDG implementation and transformation for Climate and Biodiversity protection and Sustainable Development. Advancing these solutions requires collective action and collaboration across stakeholders, including governments, multilateral institutions, the private sector, and civil society.

The thematic track aims to deliver actionable recommendations and strategies to mobilise action for SDG implementation.