Industrialized, newly industrializing and developing countries still have a need for action to achieve the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted during a UN summit in autumn 2015. That shows our SDG-Index for 149 countries.
The study has been worked out with special adviser to the United Nations Jeffrey Sachs and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) of the United Nations. On July 20 it was presented during a United Nations conference in New York and delivered to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.