Partnerships, Politics and International Collaboration

Global Forum Network Meeting 2022 - National SDG Advisory Bodies calling to action

Report by the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE); 04.-07.09.2022 in Cape Town, South Africa

Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development

Statement by the German Council for Sustainable Development; Berlin, 30 March 2022

Two-Pager Joint Action for Sustainable Development

Flyer: Agenda VNR Lab 8

The role of multistakeholder advisory bodies in VNR processes and their potential to accelerate SDG delivery

Flyer: Agenda Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs)

2022 HLPF Side Event - Debate on how local SDG monitoring and implementation connect with national SDG pathways

Project: Enhancing the visibility and network character of existing organizational efforts to implement the UN SDGs

Snapshot of a Global Forum project in Bénin and Togo on SDG stakeholder mapping, round table dialogues and digital visibility for accelerated SDG delivery.

Turning Point for a Consistent Sustainability Policy

Recommendations of the Council to secure the global sustainability perspective in light of the war in Ukraine; Berlin, 17 May 2022

Study: Pieces of a puzzle: further steps on a journey (Part II)

Second report on the potential for greater use of multi-stakeholder advisory bodies for the 2030 Agenda.

Our Common Agenda – Impetus for an inclusive and networked multilateralism for sustainable development

Statement by Council members in collaboration with Dr Marianne Beisheim (SWP) and Dr Silke Weinlich (DIE); Berlin, 20 January 2022

Recommendations for the Reform of Government Work: Better Governance for Sustainable Development

Recommendations for the Reform of Government Work: Better Governance for Sustainable Development; Berlin, 4 October 2021

Study: Pieces of a puzzle: towards national sustainable development advisory bodies (Part I)

Understanding the stakeholder landscape and policy processes towards establishing national multi-stakeholder advisory bodies for sustainable development.

Study: Pathways for National Sustainable Development Advisory Bodies

Study on the role of national multi-stakeholder advisory bodies to deliver the SDGs.

Policy brief: Pathways for consensus-building

Policy brief on the role of national multi-stakeholder advisory bodies to deliver the SDGs.

Policy paper: Reform options for effective UN sustainable development governance

Together with researcher colleagues from SWP and DIE, Council members developed reform options for more effective UN sustainable development governance.

EU–AU partnership for peace: entering a joint future of sustainable development

Recommendation of the Council for Sustainable Development; Berlin, 15 October 2020

Laying the financial foundations for a sustainable recovery from the coronavirus crisis in the EU

Recommendation of the German Council for Sustainable Development concerning the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework and the European coronavirus recovery fu...

Systematically laying the foundations for a sustainable food system is essential

Recommendation of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) for the State Secretaries’ Committee for Sustainable Development on 8 June 2020; Berli...

A sustainable recovery from the coronavirus crisis

Eight recommendations by the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) for the recovery from the coronavirus crisis; Berlin, 13 May 2020

Sustainable supply chains

Recommendation of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) for effectively embedding sustainability and human rights in global supply chains; Ber...

National SDGs Implementation in Germany and Europe

Günther Bachmann - Diplomatic Academy “Augusto Ramírez Ocampo” Colombia, Bogotá

In our hands - strategic cornerstones for sutainable development in municipalities

Positions and impulses from the Mayors involved in the "Sustainable City" Dialogue; November 2019

The Role of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)

Günther Bachmann - Think piece for "Friends of Governance on Sustainable Development", edited by Felix Dodds, Berlin

Sustainable finance, reporting and their role in achieving the SDGs

Yvonne Zwick, Deputy Secretary-General RNE - Contribution to the ESDN Conference 2019, Helsinki - Introduction into the Key Themes Session

Günther Bachmann: The business of business is mutual cooperation for sustainable development

This article was published in "GAiA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society", S1/2019

Open SDGclub.Berlin meeting 2019 - Sustainability practitioners calling for action

07 – 09 May 2019, RNE Documentation

Open SDGclub.Berlin 2019: Appel à l’action

Les participants ont réitéré l'importance du document de l'Agenda 2030 et ont lancé un appel urgent en faveur d'une intensification des efforts de mise en œu...

Open SDGclub.Berlin 2019: Aufruf zum Handeln

Die Teilnehmer*innen haben die Bedeutung der Agenda 2030 bekräftigt und einen dringenden Aufruf veröffentlicht, sie in konkretes, multilaterales Handeln umzu...

Open SDGclub.Berlin 2019: Calling for Action

Participants have reiterated the importance of the 2030 Agenda document and have launched an urgent call for increased implementation efforts.

For an ambitious European and global sustainability policy – Germany’s special responsibility

Contribution by the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) to the meeting of the State Secretaries’ Committee for Sustainable Development on 27 May...

sustainable_AND_digital: Sustainable development as the framework for digital transformation

Recommendations of the German Council for Sustainable Development to the German Government, Berlin December 2018

Günther Bachmann - Overcoming Limits

Welcome Address at the Annual meeting of the 2030 Implementation Initiative; Bonn and Düsseldorf, 4–8 December 2018

Günther Bachmann - The HLPF We Need to Support the 2030 Agenda

Key note to the 2018 Sustainable Development Transition Forum: Accelerating Progress towards the SDGs: Enhancing the Role of the High-Level Political Forum, ...

German Almanac of Sustainability 2018

Ideas and actions aimed at achieving a future-oriented, equitable and open society by the year 2030

Interview with Adolfo Ayuso-Audry

Adolfo Ayuso-Audry was a member of the international Peer Review Group 2018 - This article was published in the “German Almanac of Sustainability 2018".

Multi-stakeholder peer review of Germany’s Sustainable Development Strategy – a transformative example to follow

By Helen Clark, Chair of the international Peer Review Group 2018 - This article was published in the “German Almanac of Sustainability 2018".

Programme 26th EEAC Annual Conference

Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030: Key leverages for transformation, 11 October 2018, Berlin

Günther Bachmann - Stakeholder-policymaker cooperation in the age of the SDGs: what new approaches are required for success?

Key note address: Conference Stakeholder policy cooperation for the SDGs – Stakeholder Activities in different European countries, European Sustainable Devel...

Steering global sustainability away from a dead end

The RNE’s recommendations to the German federal government for enhancing multilateralism for the 2030 Agenda; Berlin, 24 August 2018

Heidemarie Wieczorek Zeul - Reactions from Germany on the 2018 international peer review of the German Sustainable Development ...

Speech given at the 2018 UN High-Level Political Forum Side Event, 12 July 2018, New York

Helen Clark - The 2018 international Peer Review of the German Sustainable Development Strategy

Key note given at the 2018 UN High-Level Political Forum Side Event, 12 July 2018, New York

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster - Policy frameworks and initiatives for sustainability

A perspective by the German Council for Sustainable Development; Heidelberg , June 11, 2018

The 2018 Peer Review on the German Sustainability Strategy

The international peer review group on the German Sustainability Strategy has published its report. (barrier-free document)

List Members of the International Peer Group 2018

Open SDGclub.Berlin Meeting 2016 - RNE Documentation

German Almanac of Sustainability - Initiatives and impressions on the social reality of sustainability 2017

Collection of german best practice cases regarding sustainable initiatives and projects

For a comprehensive G20 partnership with Africa to implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Recommendations of the German Council for Sustainable Development to the German Government, Berlin March 2017