HLPF 2026 Side Event organized by the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation.
The 2030 Agenda remains the principal international framework for coordinating the efforts of States, international organizations, and the scientific and expert communities. Its primary value lies in providing a common vision, a shared language, a unified system of indicators, and a foundation for international cooperation. At the same time, implementation of the 2030 Agenda faces significant challenges - only around 15% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on track, 21% show moderate progress, while nearly half are advancing too slowly and 15% are moving backwards. The current SDG agenda has proven insufficiently flexible to keep pace with a rapidly changing world. For this reason, work on the contours of the post-2030 framework should begin immediately. Although four years remain until 2030, developing new goals, indicators, and implementation mechanisms requires several years of preparation, as demonstrated by the experience of designing the SDGs in 2015. The earlier substantive work begins - with the participation of a broad range of countries - the greater the likelihood that the new framework will be forward-looking rather than reactive, focused on the most important issues rather than overloaded.
