Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl, Russian Federation
Since the adoption of the United Nation's 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, attempts to monitor their status of achievement are increasing by governments, the academic community, and non-governmental actors. Implementation of the SDG is of particular interest both in international context and according to the agenda of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, thus the task of identifying medium-term sustainable development priorities of Russia acquires great importance. The paper is based on comparative analysis of priorities of the Presidential Order “On National Goals and Strategic Objectives of the Russian Federation through to 2024” (the May-2018 Executive Order), active state programs and the SDG targets. The purpose of the paper is to determine the correlation between the SDG targets and Russia's medium- and long-term national strategic goals. Particular focus is thereby put on constructing composite indices that allow benchmarking of countries according to their level of SDG achievement. The author argues that the existing SDG indices should be complemented with a longitudinal perspective to assess development over time towards or away from the 2030 Agenda's objectives.
Sustainable development goals, Sustainability indicators, Composite index, Measuring progress, European Union Ranking, Developed countries, Developing countries.
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