Background
The theme of the 2025 High Level Political Forum (HLPF) is “Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs for leaving no one behind”. The 2025 HLPF will have an in-depth review of Sustainable Development Goals 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, 5 – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, 8 – Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, 14 – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, and 17 – Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
The HLPF will provide an opportunity to assess progress on these goals at the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, and to identify what can be done to radically accelerate progress on SDG implementation in the remaining five years, connecting with other intergovernmental processes such as the 3rd UN Ocean Conference, the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), the Second World Summit for Social Development, and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (Beijing+30).
Substantive reviews of the SDGs for the 2025 HLPF are an opportunity to assess progress, identify emerging and persistent challenges to progress on each of the Goals, and consider opportunities for action that have recently emerged. Each of these SDGs has already been reviewed two times providing ample opportunity for sharing of experiences and lessons learned. It’s now time to identify the science-backed transformations that have to be realized for acceleration on these goals and build the coalitions and take the actions to make this happen.
The reviews will be informed by a series of Expert Group Meetings (EGMs). The series of EGMs (one for each Goal under review with SDG 17 covered in each EGM) will be organized in early 2025 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), in collaboration with relevant UN system partners. The meetings will bring together diverse experts from government, the private sector, academia, and civil society and the UN system to identify progress and challenges, share lessons learned and identify promising partnerships and opportunities for rapidly scaling up action toward achieving each of the goals while also generating synergies and addressing trade-offs with other goals.
The outcomes of the thematic reviews for each in-focus Goal will be an approximately 10-page background note together with a succinct 2-page note to inform the discussion at the 2025 HLPF.
Announcements
Health and population
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Multi-stakeholder partnerships
Employment, decent work for all and social protection
