DEval Policy Brief 01/2024: Public Opinion in the 2030 Agenda: A Mid-Term Review

How does the population rate the achievability of the SDGs • I f respondents are familiar with the SDGs, they are as well as their own potential influence and contribution to more likely to assume that the goals will be achieved by achieving the goals? 2030; they rate their own potential influence more positively and are also more likely to report on their SDGs remain little known own contribution. [...] In the heard of the 17 goals, and a further 7 percent chose the answer year marking the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda, the United “Don’t know”. [...] who are on the far left or far right of the political spectrum Own potential influence and contributions (although the goals are slightly better known on the left of the seen especially in everyday areas political spectrum than on the right).1 These findings suggest that the SDGs are more likely to be known among sections of the Overall, the population rates its own ability to influence the popula. [...] confidence in the ability to achieve the ambitious goals of the Their rating of their own contribution to global poverty reduction 2030 Agenda has declined in the context of the crises in recent (SDG 1) is particularly low. [...] DEval Policy Brief 01/2024 Implications: reflecting on the communication of the The capacities of the general public to address a complex issue 2030 Agenda and identifying opportunities for action such as the 2030 Agenda, which is also likely to be perceived as less relevant and urgent in the context of current crises, are The low level of awareness of the SDGs among the population correspondingly.