Summary

"The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable development goals (SDGs) aim to achieve human rights for all, by eradicating poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity.

This report addresses how national parliaments can help achieve the SDGs, based on examples of good practice that could serve as sources of inspiration. It also identifies gaps that need to be addressed including, in particular, the lack of awareness among parliamentarians of the 2030 Agenda. As the successful implementation of the SDGs requires the involvement and support of all relevant stakeholders, the report also stresses the decisive role played by local and regional authorities, and the importance of the co-ordinating work carried out by regional and international parliamentary assemblies, including the Parliamentary Assembly.

With a view to ensuring that parliaments and local and regional authorities are able to play their role in achieving the SDGs to the full, the Assembly makes a number of recommendations, in particular in relation to parliaments’ legislative, budgetary and oversight functions. It also recommends that member States involve members of parliament and local and regional authority representatives in steering/co-ordinating bodies implementing the SDGs, and in the High-level Political Forum held every year."

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