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Country
Sweden
Year
2021
Income Group
High income
Source
VNR
Continuity among first and subsequent VNR Reports
Report
2
Region
Europe
Sub-region
Northern Europe
Finding
The 2021 Swedish VNR addresses policy coherence for sustainable development, highlighting an ongoing pilot project to identify synergies and trade-offs between goals together with the Stockholm Environment Institute, which has developed the "SDG Synergies" tool to survey synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs at the national level.
The tool seeks to provide an overview of systemic effects in implementation based on an assessment of interactions between the SDGs, building networks of interlinkages based on direct and indirect interactions between them.
In an initial stage, expert assessments were reached on how the SDGs have been found to influence each other. On a second stage, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Swedish actors joined to discuss stakeholders' views on surveyed synergies and trade-offs. As a result, some areas that seem to have particular systemic impacts on the national implementation of the 2030 Agenda were identified.
