National Policy Integration and Private Governance: SDG Implementation in Romania
National Policy Integration and Private Governance: SDG Implementation in Romania

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper investigates how Romania implements the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and conducts an analysis at two levels of governance, namely national policy integration and private governance. It finds that these two levels have a limited interaction, something which could be improved in the future, given the significant role of non-state actors in the achievement of the SDGs. Furthermore, the study identifies that the national policy integration level displays some policy interlinkages, thus avoiding the trap of working in silos, which could hinder the implementation of the goals. While progress has been achieved in terms of data access, organisational structures and policy formulation, more can be done to improve policy coherence, especially concerning SDG 13 on climate action for which a case study was conducted herein. In our view, contradictory policy signals could jeopardise the implementation of this SDG. Along these lines, other risk factors for the 2030 Agenda, in general, are related to the tendency to cherry-pick certain SDGs to focus on, rather than take a holistic approach and integrate all of them across different policy domains.

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