Previous year's reports
2024 SDG Accord Report
The 2024 SDG Accord progress report launched on 26th September during Global Goals Week. It features a foreword from the María Cortés-Puch, Head of Networks at the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Take a look at the full report (including the calls to action for all signatories on page 20 - 21) and get inspired by a fantastic range of case studies from our signatories. Use the media kit to find templates and images which you can use to share the report on social media.
2023 SDG Accord Reporting
The 2023 SDG Accord Progress Report was launched at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 17th July. You can access the full report via the Sustainability Exchange here or via the EAUC here.
2022 SDG Accord Reporting
The 2022 SDG Accord Report is available here.
The 2022 Report was presented at the HESI+10 Global Forum, as part of the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF), on Wednesday 6th July 2022, contributing to the in-depth review of the SDGs and raising the profile of the university and college sector in this space.
This Reporting was open from 29th March to 6th May 2022, thus is now closed for 2022. You can view the reporting requirements and share with colleagues to collate your responses here.
2021 SDG Accord Report
The SDG Accord Report 2021 is available here.
The recording of the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Special Event, Driving collective action for the SDGs: The role of further education, Building a sustainable and resilient recovery, shows the findings of the 2021 SDG Accord Reporting presented. Available here.
You can now read the 2020 SDG Accord report: Progress towards the Global Goals in the HE and FE Sector. The findings show that awareness of the SDGs in universities and colleges across the world is steadily increasing. From the institutional signatories of the Accord, 83 institutions reported on their progress on the SDGs over the 2019-2020 academic year. This is an increase of 63% on the number that submitted reporting in 2019 and is reflective of the sector's growth with this agenda.
Here is a resource that outlines what SDG contributions might look like in your institution: click here.
2019 SDG Accord report
You can now read the 2019 SDG Accord report 'Progress towards the Global Goals in the University and College sector' here. This was delivered at the UN High Level Political Forum on Wednesday, 10th July 2019 at the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) event. This is not delivered annually to the HLPF as an officially recognised mechanism of HESI.
A full communications kit is available here.
2018 SDG Accord report
The first SDG Accord report was delivered to the UN High Level Political Forum in July 2018. This was received well, with one of the recommendations to the UN immediately agreed upon by them. That recommendations was for the SDG Accord to be an officially recognised tool of The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI*).
*HESI is a partnership between United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UNESCO, United Nations Environment, UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, United Nations University (UNU), UN-HABITAT, UNCTAD and UNITAR.
Read the report here. There is also a communications toolkit to support the report.
*The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), a partnership between United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UNESCO, United Nations Environment, UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, United Nations University (UNU), UN-HABITAT, UNCTAD and UNITAR.