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Today’s youth demands more commitment to sustainable development and more direct participation.  Young people have the most confidence in NGOs advancing the sustainable development agenda, followed by science and citizen initiatives.  For the younger generation, environmental destruction, species extinction, and climat ...

Citizen participation is key for effective and successful local government.  Without participation, local government initiatives have a limited effect on improving trust in local politics and politicians, resulting in much more challenging policy implementation.  Without the effective involvement of citizens in local g ...

Sustainable urban development calls for effective cooperation and collaboration between all relevant stakeholders.  Governance is one of the fundamental drivers of change that promotes direct partnership between the municipalities and the private and third sectors.  Governance requires municipal authorities and their i ...

United Nations in Ukraine. “Voluntary National Review 2020: Ukraine,” 2021. https://ukraine.un.org/... By yearend 2020, Ukraine made progress on 15 of the 17 SDGs. In its Voluntary National Review 2020, the country reported success in reducing poverty, improving labor remuneration standards, housing subsidies, and long ...

Dependency of the European Union on energy imports is 60%.  In 2021, Russia made up 45% of the EU's imported gas, costing €1 billion daily despite sanctions.  While energy markets will remain very tight, Europe must effectively diversify supplies from its current main supplier (Russia) and look for new solutions to mee ...