Agenda 2030

The UN 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted in 2015. The goals are based, among other things, on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international human rights treaties. The preamble to the agenda formulates the goal of "realizing human rights for all" and creating a world "in which human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination are universally respected". Liechtenstein committed to implementing the 17 SDGs by 2030. In the foreword to the 2021-2025 government program, the government reaffirms the sustainability goals as an international obligation and a national necessity that must be broadly supported and implemented with the involvement of all constructive forces from society, business and institutions.

With the Education Strategy 2025+ (SDG 4), the Energy Roadmap 2030 (SDG 7) and the Mobility Concept 2030 (SDG 9), various important implementation strategies have been adopted in recent years. The government monitors the development of all sustainability goals using 55 indicators in the annually published sustainability report "Indicators for Sustainable Development". For the reporting year, the report illustrates that development in six of the ten subject areas (health, social cohesion, education and culture, work, energy and climate as well as natural resources) was positive or slightly positive. In contrast, the area of mobility showed a slightly negative trend. No significant changes were identified in the areas of living conditions, international cooperation and the economy. Overall, the report identifies positive trends for 34 indicators, negative trends for 14 and neutral trends for 7.

Unfortunately, the report cannot provide an assessment of the sustainability indicators in this form. In order to be able to do this, target values for 2030 would have to be defined for all indicators. In addition, the existing indicators are not adapted to the 2030 Agenda. A project to adapt the indicators to the SDGs has long been planned in the annual programs of the Office for Statistics, but was again not tackled in the reporting year due to other priorities.

Under the leadership of the SDG Alliance, around 60 private individuals and civil society organizations also campaigned for the Sustainable Development Goals with various activities in the reporting year. Through the SDG Alliance, they pool their diverse knowledge and coordinate projects to promote sustainability in Liechtenstein. In the reporting year, the Alliance developed a draft for the establishment of an organizational and political SDG structure in Liechtenstein, which - located within the government - will steer the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals throughout society. Finally, together with over 450 European civil society organizations, the Alliance is calling for the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment to be protected by an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.

 

The Liechtenstein Children's Lobby, a network of 33 organizations from the family and children's sector, continued to address children's rights affected by the climate crisis in the reporting year as part of its "Zemma handla - for a healthy and sustainable future" campaign in the form of various participatory projects with children and young people.

The VMR is a partner organization of the SDG Alliance and coordinates the children's lobby through the Ombuds Office for Children and Young People (OSKJ). It is calling for the government to significantly strengthen its leadership role in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. In view of this, the government should be more determined and committed to sustainability and involve the expertise of civil society in the development of strategic guidelines and implementation programs. In addition, the establishment of a government funding and financing program is suggested in order to provide targeted support for projects that promote sustainable development.

 

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