Italy versus Other European Countries: Sustainable Development Goals, Policies and Future Hypothetical Results

Abstract

The topic of sustainable development has become increasingly central to the international community. In 2015, the UN approved the 2030 Agenda, an action plan aimed at pursuing sustainable development. The founding elements of the 2030 Agenda are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that refer to different areas of development. The objective of this study is to determine the state of implementation of the SDGs in Italy and to understand to what extent the country will be able to reach European standards in 2030 under current policies. To this end, a quantitative analysis was carried out which, thanks to the use of official statistics and the FORECAST.ETS function, made it possible to identify the value that the indicators will have in 2030. In addition, the dynamic index methodology was applied to measure the degree of implementation of the SDGs between two different historical periods: 2018 and 2030. The analyses carried out shows that Italy needs to take urgent measures to meet its commitment to the 2030 Agenda. The study offers one of the first insights into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda as, in addition to analyzing the country’s performance, it examines the pursuit of the SDGs within the country itself. It is therefore believed that the results may be of interest to governments, experts, and academics.

Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (Sdg) in Portugal and Forecast of Key Indicators Until 2030

“…Comparing Italy's performance in terms of sustainable development and the degree of achievement of the SDGs (Dello Strologo et al, 2021), we note that here again Portugal's performance is superior, with Italy forecasting a percentage of achievement of the SDG targets of only 41.67%, relatively similar to the results reported in Spain. Similar research has also been published for Bulgaria and Romania (Ionescu et al 2021;Firoiu et al, 2019), with results for these rates suggesting target attainment of 36.28% and 37.38% respectively.…”

European Union and its progress towards affordable and clean energy in context of the Agenda 2030

“…Thanks to the increase in the last-mentioned indicator, the country managed to fulfil the target of the Europe 2020 strategy in this area since 2014. Dello Strologo et al [ 54 ] also share the opinion that Italy is well on its way to progress and is also converging towards achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda in the field of SDG 7.…”

Gender Diversity and Resilience in Firms During COVID-19 Pandemic

“…EU countries were analyzed for their primary role in the abolition of gender inequalities and the implementation of the SDGs (Salaris et al, 2020) and implementation of the SDGs by providing statistics and indicators to assess and forecast the extent to which a country can achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda. The forecast value of the SDGIs at 2030, consistent with previous literature, was determined through the use of the FORECAST.ETS function of Excel software that allows the identification, based on historical data, of the future value of a variable by automatically choosing the most correct value for a given dataset (Dello Strologo et al, 2021;Held et al, 2018;Hyndman & Athanasopoulos, 2019).…”

“…Although numerous studies have been published on gender inequalities and the degree of implementation of the SDGs (Dello Strologo et al, 2021;Firoiu et al 2019;Boto-Álvarez & García-Fernández, 2020), there is no research that proposes, through the use of an integrated approach, the analysis of the policies adopted by the nations to achieve the goals set by SDG5. This study fills this gap as its objective is to determine, utilizing a quantitative analysis, from the data provided by Eurostat, the state of implementation of SDG5 in the eurozone countries to identify the best-performing countries by 2030 and by means of qualitative analysis to study the policies they have implemented to outline a way forward for governments.…”

“…A growing body of research, on the other hand, has explored the degree to which the SDGs have been implemented in individual countries through time-series-based analyses (Dello Strologo et al, 2021;Firoiu et al 2019;Boto-Álvarez & García-Fernández, 2020).…”