BASIC INFORMATION
Cyprus
Last updated on:
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
National Sustainable Development Strategy or Action Plans
- Cyprus has Long Term Strategy and Green transition Strategies for 2030 and 2050
- The long-term strategy addresses issues related to most of the SDGs even though there is no direct link between the SDGs and the policies.
- The green transition strategy is a Roadmap for the Republic of Cyprus on Climate and Energy, as part of the country's participation in the collective European goal of a successful and sustainable transition to a climate-neutral economy by 2050.
Link(s) to Strategy & Action Plan(s)
Lead ministry in charge of coordinating sustainable development
Directorate General Growth of the Ministry of Finance
National Focal Point
Lefteris Eleftheriou eeleftheriou@mof.gov.cy
Andri Christoforou achristoforou@mof.gov.cy
Officers - Directorate General Growth
Ministry of Finance - Cyprus
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD)
- DG Growth is responsible for coordinating and monitoring the implementation of Cyprus' commitments regarding the United Nations' 2030 Agenda on SDGs. In addition, there is a Governance mechanism for Long Term Strategy, for the Green Deal structure, and for coordinating procedures for Better Regulation.
- The coordination with the subnational level is done through meetings and consultation with local and regional authorities when necessary
- Evaluation Procedure for Impact of Programmes financed under the EU funds. The evaluation and actions on these issues are following the EU policies and guidelines.
- Through campaigns, consultations with citizens and open dialogues. An e-consultation platform was launched by the Government aiming to create channels of communication and dialogue between the private sector/other stakeholders with public bodies during the process of formulating legislation through public consultation, based on the principles of transparency and accessibility.
Links to PCSD mechanisms
Monitoring Sustainable Development
- The monitoring is done through the European semester Social Scoreboard, Green and economic indicators. An effort is made to integrate SDGs into the annual budgeting procedure so as to have a correlation between Government budget and SDGs. A national monitoring mechanism for SDGs is also under development following a study prepared by UNITAR.
- In each ministry and government body there is a dedicated administrator that follows up the progress related to the SDGs that are relevant to the work of each government unit.
Links to the process(es) and/or indicators
Reporting and review on progress towards sustainable development
- Eurostat and Cystat (Cyprus Statistical service) annual Reporting. Cyprus submitted VNRs in 2017 and 2021.
- The reporting is done by the Statistical service of the Ministry of Finance and the relevant government departments depending on the subject and the EU requirements for monitoring and reporting.