Every year a handful of reports try to answer the same question from different angles: how far off track is the world, and can it still be financed? These are the UN and independent stocktakes, the regional pictures, the money behind the Goals, and the reviews countries write on themselves.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2026
The UN’s official annual stocktake: 36% of the 139 assessable targets on track or moderate, 15% in reverse. Plus the data-in-the-AI-era story.
Read the brief → SDSN · Jun 2026Sustainable Development Report 2026
The independent SDG Index from Sachs’s team: no goal on track by 2030, just 16.5% of targets on track. Why its number differs from the UN’s.
Read the brief → UN · 2026Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2026
How the Goals are financed: the gap is now over $4 trillion a year, with aid, investment and fiscal space all shrinking at once.
Read the brief → UNCTAD · Jul 2026World Investment Report 2026
Global FDI rose 6% to $1.6 trillion, but the SDG-relevant investment it counts left the poorest economies and the social sectors behind.
Read the brief → ESCAP · 2026Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2026
The regional picture: on track for none of the 17 Goals, set to miss 88% of targets, and only about half its indicators carry enough data to judge.
Read the brief → SDSN · 2026Europe Sustainable Development Report 2026
Europe leads the world on the SDGs but has stalled, even as EU institutions quietly drop the 2030 Agenda from their agenda.
Read the brief → 36 countries · HLPF 2026Voluntary National Reviews 2026
What the 36 countries reporting their own SDG progress actually said: the collective main messages, the data-capacity story, and the resources.
Read the brief → UN DESA · 2025The SDG Report 2025
Last year’s UN stocktake, with 35% of targets on track. Kept as the baseline for the 2026 edition.
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