Governance for the integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda

The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change set ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their implementation requires a deeper understanding of synergies and conflicts between the SDGs and integrated governance approaches to mobilize synergies between SDGs and manage trade-offs. The cross-cutting project brings together cross-programme work on these topics. For a better understanding of the synergy and conflict potentials in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, we contribute to scenarios for long-term sustainable development pathways, evaluate national climate plans with regard to their contributions to the SDGs, conduct case studies on selected goal conflicts, and develop content and didactic concepts for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in the public sector with global partners.  With a view to integrated governance approaches, we analyze the role of political-institutional preconditions (e.g. regime type, state capacity), examine the effectiveness of different mechanisms of policy coordination (e.g. interministerial coordination mechanisms and commissions), and analyze appropriate mixes of policy instruments to achieve several SDGs simultaneously.