Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

SDG IMPLEMENTATION
IN AUSTRIA
AN AGENDA FOR ALL
OF AUSTRIA
The implementation of the 2030 Agenda entails an exercise on
a nation-wide level in Austria. The mainstreaming approach
creates the strategic framework for this purpose, with the SDGs
also embedded in the current government programme.
At the 70th Session of the United Nations
General Assembly in September 2015,
Austria voted in favour of the 2030 Agenda
with its 17 SDGs. Since then, Austria has
pursued a broad approach to the implementation
of the SDGs. Apart from policy-making
and administration, various
stakeholder groups contribute to sustainable
development.
SDGs are everywhere
While implementing the SDGs in policy-making
and administration, Austria uses
the so-called “mainstreaming” approach:
individual federal ministries implement the
SDGs in their own areas of competence
and activity. For this to be carried out,
the best way possible, the federal government
instructed all federal ministries in
its Ministerial Council Decision of 12th
January 2016 to incorporate the principles
of the 2030 Agenda in all relevant strategies
and programmes an create the relevant
measures for their implementation. Not
only all state authorities have been involved
in this course of action, but all cooperation
partners on the federal, state and municipality
level as well as social partners, civil
society, business and science.
Diverse approaches
The approaches of the ministries regarding
the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
have been highly diverse: For example,
the former Austrian Federal Ministry for
Sustainable Development and Tourism
(BMNT) has introduced an SDG action
plan 2019+, while the previous Ministry for
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