The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress

Benjamin Faude; Jack Taggart

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress

Benjamin Faude
, Jack Taggart

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

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Abstract

September 2025 marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that the global governance of the goals has undermined progress. They warn that rather than achieving transformative change, SDG governance risks entrenching the beleaguered status quo.

Original language	English
Type	Blog entry
Media of output	The Loop: ECPR's Political Science Blog
Publisher	The Loop
Publication status	Published - 26 Sept 2025

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Sustainable Development Goals
Global Governance

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