Voluntary National Review 2025 Report on the implementation of 2030 Agenda JAPAN

1.OPENING MESSAGE(PDF)

2.SUMMARY(PDF)

3.REPORT PREPARATION METHODOLOGY(PDF)

4.EVALUATION OF JAPAN'S VISION AND INITIATIVES TOWARDS ACHIEVING SDGS(PDF)

1. The general situation surrounding SDGs and Japan's vision for achieving SDGs
2. SDGs implementation framework and efforts to raise domestic awareness
3. Five priority areas and major initiatives

• Priority Area (i): Establishment of sustainable economic and social systems
• Priority Area (ii): Realization of an inclusive society where no one is left behind
• Priority Area(iii): Strengthening efforts to address global challenges
• Priority Area(iv): Cooperation and collaboration with the international community
• Priority Area(v): Integrated promotion of sustaining peace and sustainable development

5.PROGRESS TOWARD EACH GOAL(PDF)

• Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
• Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
• Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
• Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
• Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development

6.EVALUATION AND INITIATIVES BY EACH STAKEHOLDER(PDF)

1. Introduction
2. Evaluation by stakeholders by 17 goals
3. Evaluation of initiatives by stakeholders
• A. Media trends
• B. Cross-cutting issues (gender and youth)
• C. Trends by sector
4. Conclusion

7.FUTURE DIRECTION(PDF)

Column compilation(PDF)

1. Column 1: Expo2025 Osaka, Kansai
2. Column 2: Efforts to Create Unique Regional Well-Being Indicators
3. Column 3: "Happy Economics" and a Sustainable Future
4. Column 4: Declining birthrate and aging society
5. Column 5: Expanding initiatives for mutual assistance
6. Column 6: Radical reinforcement of children's policies: the establishment of the Children and Families Agency
7. Column 7: Next generation SDGs promotion platform
8. Column 8: Regional decarbonization initiatives
9. Column 9: Pre-disaster investment for national resilience
10. Column 10: Japan’s efforts toward a society living in harmony with nature & Green x EXPO 2027
11. Column 11: International expansion of community-based initiatives based on partnership: Lake Biwa’s “UMINOKO” as a model for environmental education in developing countries