Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe and around the world means strengthening cooperation and dialogue between countries, in order to create a global and universal dynamic that takes into account the principle of diversity and the recognition of all diversities. The challenge here lies in ensuring that the different scales and perimeters of analysis and action are properly articulated, and in organizing a dialogue that links the local and the global, the territorial and the planetary, the singular and the universal.
In Europe and worlwide
The 193 Member States of the United Nations have pledged to endorse this new roadmap for sustainable development by 2030. Its implementation differs from country to country. Here are a few examples of European and international initiatives. Europe
European Union
Sustainable development in EU legislation
Sustainable development has been a competence of the European Union since the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997.
The 2007 Lisbon Treaty stipulates that the European Union "shall work for (...)
