Abstract
The 2030 Agenda defined 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) divided into 169 targets, applicable everywhere and based on the “No one left behind” principle. Goals and indicators to measure the achievement of the 2030 Agenda have to be localized. The paper presents the Italian current evolution of the territorialization of the SDGs, starting from the global level up to the local one, and wonders if the implementation of the 2030 Agenda takes concrete form with the quantitative monitoring of the SDGs at the local level (municipalities and not only capitals). A comparison among indicators proposed at different levels is set by using an ad hoc comparative reading grid. The analysis highlights that, in Italy, the principle barriers in the territorialization of the SDGs are the lack of data open sources, the proposal of new not adequately validated metrics by institutional/non-institutional subjects and the progressive loss of relationship with Global indicator framework and targets of the 2030 Agenda. The strategies needed to reach sustainable development are obviously site-specific, but we need to maintain common metrics in measuring performances in relation to the 2030 Agenda. In the Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is possible to find indicators suitable to measure performances at the local level—albeit in a smaller numbers—but in Italy, there is no awareness about this. Italy is completely losing both the opportunity to compare the results of the effort performed by the Municipalities in a rigorous way and the possibility to use strong metrics to support decision-makers’ policies for the future.
Highlights
At a sub-national level, the maintenance of the coherence between the Agenda Goals and indicators is difficult because the bodies that carry out the SDG monitoring have different natures: they are autonomous research bodies, associations or bodies appointed by local authorities to carry out the monitoring for them for which it is not mandatory to use only indicators identical to the Institute of Statistics (Istat) set
The analysis shows that many different metrics are generated by institutional and non-institutional subjects who participate in the debate on the 2030 Agenda by proposing different target measurement solutions that are sometimes not adequately validated
PoliS-Lombardia at a regional and sub-regional level, as they are of interest for the Lombardy case study
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. On 25 September 2015, the governments of the 193 UN member countries, including. Signed the adoption of a global Agenda for post-2015 development: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [1]. Entered into force on 1 January 2016, the 2030. Agenda is the new reference framework for development that follows the Millennium. The United Nations Millennium Declaration was signed by
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