On Tuesday 11 June, the Council of Ministers will approve a report that will be sent to the United Nations with the aim of Spain submitting itself to the Voluntary National Review for the 2030 Agenda.

Pablo Bustinduy and Yolanda Díaz in a file photo.The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, and the Second Vice-President and Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, in a file photo.

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2030 Agenda

This will be the third time that our country has undergone this review, making it the first country in the world to reach this figure and, therefore, the country that has evaluated its commitments to the 2030 Agenda the most times.

This report was approved at the last Delegate Commission for the 2030 Agenda chaired by the Second Vice-President and Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz. This commission is made up of 19 ministries that are responsible for the plans and strategies for Spain’s compliance with the 2030 Agenda, both in the design and development of measures and in their implementation and evaluation.

“We are one of the governments in the world that takes the deployment of the 2030 Agenda most seriously. Social justice, economic efficiency and environmental protection have to be made compatible, and the 2030 Agenda, the fruit of international consensus, offers concrete targets and indicators to achieve this balance,’ Vice-President Díaz assured the commission.

The Voluntary National Review will take place in the third week of July before the UN High Level Political Forum at its headquarters in New York. The Minister for Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, will represent Spain in this evaluation, which will be an international milestone.

Pablo Bustinduy explained that this assessment before the United Nations will serve our country ‘as a guide to achieve a better society and to implement public policies that achieve more social justice and well-being’.

The aim of this review is to assess Spain’s compliance with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) signed by the 193 countries participating in the development of the 2030 Agenda. In this regard, Minister Bustinduy highlighted the close collaboration between ministries to ensure compliance with the SDGs and called for maximum cooperation between all administrations. ‘We have a complex and laborious challenge ahead of us, but also the opportunity to make Spain an international benchmark in the expansion of civil rights and social rights,’ he said.

Pablo Bustinduy underlined the Spanish Government’s commitment to sustainable development and the work that all the ministers have carried out to be able to deploy a battery of policies, actions and regulatory reforms in this area, which have four main objectives:

Improving social protection to end poverty and inequality.
A just transition to tackle the climate and environmental crisis.
More labour rights to end precariousness.
Urgently address the care crisis.