The EU renewed its Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS) in 2006, setting out global poverty and sustainable development challenges as key priorities. Targets under the EU SDS focus on promoting sustainable development actively worldwide and ensure that the European Union's internal and external policies are consistent with global sustainable development and its international commitments.
Headline indicator
Operational objectives and targets
Actions/explanatory variables
Official development assistance as share of gross national income
Globalisation of trade
EU imports from developing countries, by income group
EU imports from developing countries by group of products
EU imports from least-developed countries by group of products
Aggregated measurement of support for agriculture
Financing for sustainable development
Total EU financing for developing countries, by type
Foreign direct investment in developing countries, by income group
Official development assistance, by income group
Untied official development assistance
Bilateral official development assistance by category
Global resource management
CO2 emissions per inhabitant in the EU and in developing countries
Contextual indicators
Population living on less than 1USD a day (for sub-theme financing for SD) (not yet available) Official development assistance per inhabitant (for sub-theme financing for SD) Population with sustainable access to an improved water source (for sub-theme Global Resource Management) (not yet available)
Evaluation of changes in global partnership (2011 monitoring)
EU has missed its ODA target of 0.56% of GNI in 2010;
Imports from developing countries increased;
Overall EU-15 financing for development increased, but economic crisis had negative impact;
The gap between CO2 emissions from the EU and from developing countries is narrowing.
