The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, and the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, in a file photo.
It will be the third time that our country undergoes this examination, being the first in the world to reach this figure and, therefore, the country that has evaluated its commitments to the 2030 Agenda the most times.
This report was approved in the last Delegate Commission for the 2030 Agenda chaired by the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz. This commission is made up of 19 ministries that have powers over the plans and strategies for Spain’s compliance with the 2030 Agenda, both in the design and development of measures and in their implementation and evaluation.
“We are one of the Governments in the world that takes the deployment of the 2030 Agenda most seriously. Social justice, economic efficiency and environmental protection must be made compatible, and the 2030 Agenda, the result of international consensus, offers concrete objectives and indicators to achieve this balance,” said Vice President Díaz in this commission.
The Voluntary National Review will be held in the third week of July before the UN High-Level Political Forum, at its headquarters in New York. The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, will be the one who represents Spain in this evaluation that will be an international milestone.
Pablo Bustinduy explained that this evaluation before the United Nations will serve our country “as a guide to achieve a better society and to implement public policies that achieve more social justice and well-being.”
The objective of this examination is to evaluate Spain’s compliance with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) signed by the 193 countries participating in the development of the 2030 Agenda. In this regard, Minister Bustinduy has highlighted the close collaboration between ministries to guarantee compliance with the SDGs and has requested maximum cooperation between all administrations. “We have a complex and laborious challenge ahead of us, but also the opportunity to turn Spain into an international benchmark in the expansion of civil rights and social rights,” he said.
Pablo Bustinduy has highlighted the commitment of the Government of Spain to sustainable development and the work that all ministers have carried out to be able to deploy a battery of policies, actions and regulatory reforms in this matter, and which have four main objectives :
- Improve social protection to end poverty and inequality.
- A just transition to address the climate and environmental crisis.
- More labor rights to end precariousness.
- Urgently address the care crisis.
