Accountability
Bexell, Magdalena LU
(2025)
p.11-12
- Abstract
- Accountability is central for accelerating progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It means to hold powerful actors answerable for how they turn agreements into action. Governments, who hold the main responsibility for SDG implementation, can in the ideal case be held accountable by voters, parliaments, civil society, and the media, for how they address the SDGs. At the same time, accountability is a great challenge for global political agreements of a non-binding nature such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Several powerful actors impact the realization of the SDGs, even if they do not hold formal responsibilities for their implementation. For these actors, accountability can take market-based... (More)
- Accountability is central for accelerating progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It means to hold powerful actors answerable for how they turn agreements into action. Governments, who hold the main responsibility for SDG implementation, can in the ideal case be held accountable by voters, parliaments, civil society, and the media, for how they address the SDGs. At the same time, accountability is a great challenge for global political agreements of a non-binding nature such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Several powerful actors impact the realization of the SDGs, even if they do not hold formal responsibilities for their implementation. For these actors, accountability can take market-based forms, peer-based forms and public reputational forms. A variety of complementary accountability forms is needed to accelerate SDG implementation. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/e61b28f6-3d20-478f-b423-3caea4aeaafe
- author
- Bexell, Magdalena
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025-07-24
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals : An A-Z Guide - An A-Z Guide
- pages
- 2 pages
- publisher
- Taylor and Francis A.S.
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:105016447559
- ISBN
- 9781040392454
- 9781032841694
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003519560
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- e61b28f6-3d20-478f-b423-3caea4aeaafe
- date added to LUP
- 2026-01-12 10:15:09
- date last changed
- 2026-01-13 03:18:43
@inbook{e61b28f6-3d20-478f-b423-3caea4aeaafe,
abstract = {{Accountability is central for accelerating progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It means to hold powerful actors answerable for how they turn agreements into action. Governments, who hold the main responsibility for SDG implementation, can in the ideal case be held accountable by voters, parliaments, civil society, and the media, for how they address the SDGs. At the same time, accountability is a great challenge for global political agreements of a non-binding nature such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Several powerful actors impact the realization of the SDGs, even if they do not hold formal responsibilities for their implementation. For these actors, accountability can take market-based forms, peer-based forms and public reputational forms. A variety of complementary accountability forms is needed to accelerate SDG implementation.}},
author = {{Bexell, Magdalena}},
booktitle = {{Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals : An A-Z Guide}},
isbn = {{9781040392454}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{07}},
pages = {{11--12}},
publisher = {{Taylor and Francis A.S.}},
title = {{Accountability}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003519560}},
doi = {{10.4324/9781003519560}},
year = {{2025}},
}