Links and Documents
This section provides resources (website links and documents) on the following issues:
- Guideline documents
- Policy documents
- Supra-national SD strategy processes
- Evaluations and reviews of SD strategies
- Studies on SD strategies and related features
- Websites
- EU websites on SD
- UN and OECD websites on SD
- Other websites related to SD: international NGO’s, partnerships, initiatives
- Sectoral policies
Guideline documents
SD strategies general (in descending chronological order):
UN: Guidance in preparing a National Sustainable Development Strategy
(2002)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/nsds_guidance.pdf
OECD - IIED: Sustainable Development Strategies: A Resource Book (2002)
PDF (1.8 MB)
UN: Guidelines for Developing a National Programme of Indicators of
Sustainable Development (2001)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/guidelines_indicators.pdf
OECD: The DAC Guidelines - Strategies for sustainable development. Guidance
for development co-operation (2001)
http://www.oecd.org/dac/environmentanddevelopment/2669958.pdf
OECD: National Strategies For Sustainable Development, a Guide
To Key Issues And Methods For Analysis. A prompt for status review and analysis
(2000)
http://nssd.net/pdf/Topic7.pdf
OECD: Improving Policy Coherence and Integration for Sustainable Development:
A checklist
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/19/2763153.pdf
Back to overviewEvaluation and review of SD strategies:
European Commission: Peer Review Improvement through Mutual Exchange
on Sustainable Development: A guidebook for peer reviews of national sustainable
development strategies (2006)
PDF
Methodology Paper of the French SD strategy peer review (2005)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/nsds/methodology.pdf
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic: Manual for
planning and evaluation of Sustainable Development at the regional level (2006)
PDF
Policy documents
- National SD strategies
- EU SD policy documents
- Other relevant EU policy documents
- International SD policy documents
National SD strategies (in alphabetical order):
Austria:
The 2002 NSTRAT document (English version) can be downloaded here: 'A Sustainable Future for Austria' (2002)
Belgium:
Federal Plan for Sustainable Development 2004-2008
Bulgaria:
http://www.mee.government.bg/doc_pub/SDS_04_05_07.doc
Croatia:
NSDS can be downloaded on the website of the Ministry: Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia
SD objectives listed in the NSDS: Croatian NSDS is focusing on long-term action in the following eight key areas:
- encouraging population growth in the Republic of Croatia
- environment and natural resources
- promoting sustainable production and consumption
- ensuring social and territorial cohesion and justice
- ensuring energy independence and increasing the efficiency of energy use
- strengthening public health
- interconnectedness of the Republic of Croatia
- protection of the Adriatic Sea, coastal area and islands
These are the eight key challenges of sustainable development that also serve as the basis for strategic directions of the development of the Republic of Croatia. Each one of them is further explained and elaborated in the overall objective or overall objectives for that area, which is/are in turn elaborated in concrete measures that can be seen in NSDS.
NSDS also points out that the efficient state, knowledge-based society / education for sustainable development, research and development and mitigation and adaptation to climate change are the preconditions for further development. Of these, the education for sustainable development is especially singled out as the precondition for sustainable development and as such considered to be a cross-sectoral key challenge.
Cyprus:
Cyprus Sustainable Development Strategy 2007
Czech Republic:
Czech Republic Strategy for Sustainable Development (2010)
Denmark:
The current set of sustainable development indicators connected to the former Danish National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2002): http://www.mst.dk/Tvaergaaende+indsats/Baeredygtig+udvikling/Strategier+for+bæredygtig+udvikling/Dansk/Indikator/IndikatorerBU.htm
Estonia:
'Sustainable Estonia 21' (2005)
Finland:
"Towards sustainable choices" (2006)
The full list(s) of NSDS objectives as identified by a study commissioned by Eurostat can be downloaded here:
France:
La Stratégie Nationale de Développement Durable 2010-2013 (in French)
The French Sustainable Development Strategy (in english)
La estrategia francesa de desarollo sostenible 2010-2013 (in spanish)
Germany:
Progress Report 2012 (in German and English)
Greece:
National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2002) (English executive summary)
Hungary:
National Sustainable Development Strategy of Hungary (2007)
National Sustainable Development Framework Strategy (plan - 2012)
Iceland:
'Welfare for the Future' (2002)
Ireland:
- 'Sustainable Development - A Strategy for Ireland' (1997)
- 'Making Ireland's Development Sustainable: review, assessment and future action' (2002)
Italy:
'Strategia d'azione ambientale per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile' (2002) (in Italian)
Latvia:
'Strategy for Sustainable Development of Latvia' (2010)
The full list(s) of NSDS objectives as identified by a study commissioned by Eurostat can be downloaded here:
Lithuania:
- National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2003) - English
- National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2009) - English
- National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2011) - Lithuanian
The full list(s) of NSDS objectives as identified by a study commissioned by Eurostat can be downloaded here:
Luxemburg:
National Plan for Sustainable Development (2010) (in German)
Malta:
'A Sustainable Development Strategy for the Maltese Islands 2007-2016' (2006)
Montenegro:
NSSD: http://www.kor.gov.me/en/sections/national-strategy-for-sustainable-development/92859/157161.html
First annual report on implementation of NSSD: http://www.kor.gov.me/en/sections/national-strategy-for-sustainable-development/92861/177457.html
Second annual report on implementation of NSSD: http://www.kor.gov.me/en/sections/national-strategy-for-sustainable-development/97436/Second-Annual-Report-on-the-Implementation-of-NSSD.html
Third annual report on implementation of NSSD: http://www.kor.gov.me/rubrike/nacionalna-strategija-odrzivog-razvoja/117392/Third-Annual-Report-on-implementation-of-NSSD.html
Communication Strategy on Sustainable Development: http://www.kor.gov.me/en/sections/Communication-Strategy-of-Sustainable-Development
Millennium Development Goals: http://www.kor.gov.me/en/sections/Millenium_Development_Goals
Norway:
Norway´s Strategy for Sustainable Development (2007)
Poland:
Portugal:
'Estratégia Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sustentável' (2007) (in Portuguese)
Romania:
National Sustainable Development Strategy - 'Romania 2013-2020-2030'
Serbia:
Web presentation of the project "Sustainable Development of Serbia. Our Common Future - National Sustainable Development Strategy": Full version (English) | Summary (English)
Slovakia:
National Strategy for Sustainable Development for the Slovak Republic (2001)
Slovenia:
'Slovenia's Development Strategy' (2005)
Spain:
Spanish Sustainable Development Strategy (2007)
Sweden:
Switzerland:
Sustainable Development Strategy 2012-2015
The Netherlands:
http://www.sd-network.eu/pdf/country_profiles/NL%20Attachment%203%20-%20Sustainability%20Agenda%202011.pdf
United Kingdom:
"Mainstreaming sustainable development - The Government’s vision and what this means in practice”.
EU SDS and other EU SD policy documents (in descending chronological order):
Progress Report on the Sustainable Development Strategy 2007
Communication
from the Commission
Accompanying
document (Commission Staff working document)
Renewed EU SDS (adopted version June 9)
http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/06/st10/st10917.en06.pdf
Presidency Conclusions Brussels European Council 15/16 June 2006
PDF
Motion for a Resolution on the revised sustainable development strategy
EP
Session Document June 7, 2006
The 2005 Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy: Initial Stocktaking
and Future Orientations" (2005)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/sustainable/docs/COMM_PDF_COM_2005_0037_F_EN_ACTE.pdf
Draft Declaration on Guiding Principles for Sustainable Development COM(2005)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/sustainable/docs/COM_2005_0218_F_EN_ACTE.pdf
Sustainable Development Indicators to monitor the implementation of the EU
Sustainable Development Strategy (2005)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/sustainable/docs/Indicators_SEC_2005_0161_F_EN.pdf
Summary report of the Strategic Evaluation of Approaches to Integrating Sustainability
into Community Policies (2004)
http://venus.unive.it/matdid.php?[...]
Report: National Sustainable Development Strategies in the European Union -
A first analysis by the European Commission (2004)
http://www.oecd.org/site/worldforum06/36806155.pdf
Annex to the Report: Country Profiles
http://europa.eu.int/comm/sustainable/docs/annex_sustainable_development_strategies.pdf
The World Summit on Sustainable Development one year on: implementing our commitments
(2003)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2003:0829:FIN:EN:PDF
Towards a global partnership for Sustainable Development (2002)
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/cnc/2002/com2002_0082en01.pdf
Implementing Agenda 21: The EU's record (2002)
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/wssd/pdf/020722draftagenda.pdf
Consultation paper for the preparation of the European Union Strategy for Sustainable
Development (2001)
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/pdf/consultation_paper_en.pdf
A sustainable Europe for a better world: A European strategy for Sustainable
Development (2001)
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/cnc/2001/com2001_0264en01.pdf
Other relevant EU policy documents (in descending chronological order):
European Council: Presidency Conclusions - Brussels European Council, 8/9
March 2007
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/93135.pdf
European Council: Presidency Conclusions - Brussels European Council, June
2005
http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/85349.pdf
Aalborg commitments (2004)
http://www.aalborgplus10.dk/default.aspx?m=2&i=307
European Council: Presidency Conclusions - Brussels European Council, March
2003
http://ue.eu.int/en/Info/eurocouncil/index.htm
European Council: Presidency Conclusions - Gothenburg European Council, 15
and 16 June 2001
http://ue.eu.int/en/Info/eurocouncil/index.htm
The Sixth Environmental Action Programme: Environment 2010: Our future, our
choice (2001)
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/newprg/index.htm
European Council: Presidency Conclusions - Lisbon European Council, 23 and
24 March 2000,
http://ue.eu.int/en/Info/eurocouncil/index.htm
The Lisbon Strategy (2000)
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/00100-r1.en0.htm
The Treaty of Amsterdam (1997)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/treaty/pdf/amst-en.pdf
International SD policy documents (in descending chronological order):
Johannesburg Summit 2002: National Implementation of Agenda 21.
A Summary;
http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/wssd/summarypublication.pdf
Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development: From our
origins to the future (2002)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/WSSD_POI_PD/English/POI_PD.htm
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (2002)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/WSSD_POI_PD/English/WSSD_PlanImpl.pdf
"Aarhus Convention": Convention on Access to Information,
Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental
Matters (1998)
http://www.unece.org/env/pp/documents/cep43e.pdf
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992)
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm
Agenda 21 Action Programme (1992)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf
Supra-national SD strategy processes (in alphabetical order):
Agenda 21 for the Baltic Sea Region - Baltic 21
http://www.cbss.org/Environment/baltic-21
Mediterrean Strategy for Sustainable Development (2005)
http://www.mzopu.hr/doc/Mediterranean_str_28022006.pdf
Nordic Strategy for Sustainable Development (2005)
http://www.norden.org/pub/ovrigt/baeredygtig/uk/ANP2004782.pdf
Evaluations and reviews of SD strategies
Austria
Evaluation Study on the Implementation of Austria's Sustainable Development
Strategy (2005) (in German only)
http://www.nachhaltigkeit.at/article/articleview/72098/1/25772
Belgium
Belgian SD Reports (English summaries and French full text versions)
http://sustdev.plan.be
France
The French National Strategy for Sustainable Development: Report on a Peer
Review and Shared Learning Process (2005)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/nsds/final_report.pdf
Siwtzerland
Final Report on the Evaluation of the Swiss Federal Council's Sustainable
Development Strategy (2006)
Final Report (german)
Synthesis Report (german)
Annex (german)
Studies on SD strategies and related features (in chronological order)
Göll, E. & Thio, S.L. (2008) 'Institutions for a sustainable development – experiences from EU countries' in Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 69-88. http://www.springerlink.com/content/c82256256p825051
van de Kerk, Geurt & Manuel, Arthur (2008): A comprehensive index
for a sustainable society: The SSI – the Sustainable Society Index. PDF
(2,51 MB)
van de Kerk, Geurt & Manuel, Arthur (2010) Development towards a Sustainable Society - The Netherlands 1975 – 2008: Including a comparison with the developments in Finland over the same period, Sustainable Society Foundation, June 2010, http://www.ssfindex.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/pdf/SSI1975-2008.pdf
Alfsen, Knut & Moe, Thorvald (2008): Measuring Sustainable Development.
Ecological Economics (manuscript draft). PDF
(266 kB)
Special Issue of European Environment Vol. 17, Issue 3 (May/June 2007): Sustainable Development Strategies in Europe: Taking Stock 20 years after the Brundtland Report; http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114264226/issue
Niestroy, I. (EEAC) (2007): Stimulating informed debate – Sustainable
Development Councils in EU Member States. A compilation of tasks, capacities,
and best practice.
PDF
(299 kB)
Special Issue of Natural Resource Forum Vol. 30, Issue 2 (May 2006): National Sustainable Development Strategies; http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/narf/30/2
Christian Baumgartner, Torsten Eser, Bernadette Schausberger, Silvia Stuppäck (2006). Sustainability Strategies in the European Union and Options for Underpinning them in the National Parliaments, Vienna: Forum Sustainable Austria, http://www.nachhaltigkeit.at/strategie/forum/pdf/SustainabilityStrategies2006.pdf
Dalal-Clayton, B. & Bass, S. (2006) A Review of Monitoring Mechanisms for National Sustainable Development Strategies, London: IIED, Report prepared for the OECD, http://www.unpei.org/PDF/PEMonitoring/Review-Monitoring-Mechanisms-Natnl-Sustain-Strats.pdf
Cook, Graeme (2006): Sustainable Development – Scrutiny of Legislation. SPICe Briefing 06/75. The Scottish Parliament. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/briefings-06/SB06-75.pdf
OECD (2006): Good practices in the National Sustainable Development Strategies
of OECD countries.
PDF
(115 kB)
Swanson, D., Pintér, L., Bergha, F., Volkery, A., Jacob, K. (2004) National Strategies for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Approaches and Innovations in Strategic and Co-ordinated Action. Based on a 19-country Analysis. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development, http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2004/measure_nat_strategies_sd.pdf
Working Group on Environmental Auditing (2004) Sustainable Development: The Role of Supreme Audit Institutions. http://www.environmental-auditing.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=cFPPm1WGwRY%3D&tabid=73&mid=602
Overview of SD strategies in Europe by the European Commission (2004) http://ec.europa.eu/sustainable/docs/sustainable_development_strategies.pdf
OECD (2002): Governance for Sustainable Development. Five OECD case studies.
PDF
(2,22 MB)
Websites
- EU websites on SD
- UN and OECD websites on SD
- Other websites related to SD: international NGO’s, partnerships, initiative
EU websites on SD (in alphabetical order):
European Commission's Environment DG
The Environment DG is one of 36 Directorates-General (DGs) and specialised
services which make up the European Commission. Its main role is to initiate
and define new environmental legislation and to ensure that measures, which
have been agreed, are actually put into practice in the Member States.
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/
European Environment Agency (EEA)
The European Environment Agency aims to support sustainable development
and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment
through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information
to policy making agents and the public.
http://www.eea.europa.eu/main_html
European Environmental Bureau (EBB)
The Mission of the EEB is to become an effective instrument in visibly improving
EU's environmental policies and realizing sustainable development by effectively
integrating environmental objectives in horizontal and sectoral policies of
the EU as well as ensuring compliance with effective strategies to realise these
objectives.
http://www.eeb.org/
Sustainable Development website of DG Environment
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/
UN and OECD websites on SD (in alphabetical order):
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) website
on sustainable development
Most OECD activities relate to sustainable development, from climate
change analysis to development co-operation to corporate social responsibility.
On this website, there are links to a wealth of projects and information which
illuminate certain dimensions of sustainable development.
http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_37425_1_1_1_1_37425,00.html
OECD Sustainable Development Statistics
http://www.oecd.org/statisticsdata/0,2643,en_2649_37425_1_119656_1_1_37425,00.html
United Nations Division for Sustainable Development
The Division for Sustainable Development provides leadership and is an authoritative
source of expertise within the United Nations system on sustainable development.
It promotes sustainable development as the substantive secretariat to the UN
Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and through technical cooperation
and capacity building at international, regional and national levels
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
UNEP's mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring
for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples
to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations
http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Sustainable Development Indicators
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/isd.htm
Other websites related to SD: international NGO's, partnerships, initiatives (in alphabetical order)
Council of European Municipalities and Regions
CEMR works to promote a united Europe that is based on local and regional
self government and democracy. To achieve this goal it endeavours to shape the
future of Europe by enhancing the local and regional contribution, to influence
European law and policy, to exchange experience at local and regional level
and to cooperate with partners in other parts of the world. CEMR works in many
fields of activity
such as regional policy, transport, the environment, equal opportunities,
governance and sustainable development.
http://www.ccre.org/
European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC)
The EEAC network is a collaboration between the councils set up by European
governments to provide independent, scientifically based advice on the environment
and sustainable development.
The network is a powerful tool for sharing information and experience across
Europe. It also aims, where appropriate, to exert an influence on policy at
EU level. Co-operation between advisory councils under the EEAC network started
in 1993. More than 30 councils from 16 European countries now participate in
the network. The individual councils are statutory bodies with the mission to
advise national and regional governments in the above mentioned and related
policy fields and/or to provide a dialogue on sustainable development between
stakeholders.
http://www.eeac.eu/
European Partners for the Environment
EPE is a multi-stakeholder forum which builds the ground for consensus on
sustainability, on which members can more confidently plan actions. EPE provides
insight and practical guidance on how co-operation among partners produces results
that meet the goals of sustainable development.
http://www.epe.be/
Global Reporting Initiative
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a multi-stakeholder process and
independent institution whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally
applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
http://www.globalreporting.org/
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is
the international environmental agency for local governments. Its mission is
to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible
improvements in global environmental and sustainable development conditions
through cumulative local actions.
http://www.iclei.org/
Northern Alliance for Sustainability
Northern Alliance for Sustainability [ANPED] is an alliance of NGOs
working together for sustainable development in the northern hemisphere. ANPED
works to empower Northern civil society in creating and protecting sustainable
communities and societies world-wide. They do this by building capacity among
Northern civil society organisations through sharing of information, knowledge,
and skills; and enabling informed and effective democratic participation by
civil society in local, national, regional and international decision-making
on sustainable development policy and processes.
http://www.anped.org/
Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future is an international multi-stakeholder
organisation working on sustainable development; supporting the increased involvement
of stakeholders in international and national governance processes. The organisation
played a key role in the preparations for and follow-up to the World Summit
on Sustainable Development. It is the lead organisation in the development and
facilitating of multi-stakeholder processes for sustainable development.
http://www.stakeholderforum.org/
Sustainable Development International
Sustainable Development International aims to provide publishing services
for business to raise awareness about CSR in practice to influence effective
sustainable development policy.
http://www.sustdev.org/
Sustainable Development Online
The role of Sustainable Development Online (SDO) is to provide access to
significant web sites built by organisations supporting the move towards SD
http://sd-online.ewindows.eu.org/
World Business Council for SD
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) brings together
some 180 international companies in a shared commitment to sustainable development
through economic growth, ecological balance and social progress. Their mission
is to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable
development, and to support the business license to operate, innovate and grow
in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues.
http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?MenuID=1
Sectoral policies
Biodiversity
Policy recommendations and briefing sheets elaborated in the course of the
ALARM biodiversity project (EU 6th Framework Programme): Policy
recommendations (ZIP, 210 kB); Briefing
sheets (ZIP, 1 MB)
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