United Kingdom

SDSN UK was successful in a small grant application for the ‘SDG data gaps in the UK’ project, a joint impact-oriented research project with Newcastle University, enriched through the collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which aims to propose solutions and recommendations for improvement to current SDG data practices. Upcoming project outputs include a research paper written in collaboration with practitioners from the ONS and a policy brief.

SDSN UK organized the 'Going Green: Debating the Socio-economic Impacts of Achieving Net Zero’ conference on January 24, 2024. The conference was hosted by the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton in partnership with University of Strathclyde Centre for Sustainable Development and UCL IIPP as host institution of SDSN UK. It brought together researchers - both established and early career - policy makers and industry professionals with the aim to mobilize collective knowledge and experience to identify the most pressing, cross-sector research questions surrounding a net-zero future.

In July 2023, SDSN UK co-organized an official HLPF side event with SDSN Germany and a number of other partners. Titled "Spillover Effects, Sustainable Supply chains and SDG 9," the event focused on negative spillover effects and the challenges faced by governments, companies and other social actors in designing sustainable supply chains. A report of the event was produced and published on the SDSN UK website.

SDSN UK jointly organized a half-day workshop with colleagues from the UCL Institute of Education which focused on strengthening the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) stakeholder community in the UK.