ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: THE AUSTRIAN CASE

Abstract

To explain the complex issues related to sustainable development, it is important to study specific practices, identifying new levers and mechanisms for their implementation. As the analysis shows, Austria is one of the leaders in this direction in the European Union in achieving the sustainable development goals. To achieve its goals, Austria uses a differentiated set of tools: the development of policies and programs for the SDGs, the development of technological production, the organization of case studies and a set of activities aimed at sustainable development. General scientific methods were used (identification and selection of sources, their systematization), analysis as one of the main general logical methods, quantitative and qualitative methods regarding employment of the population involved in the implementation of sustainable development goals.Examples of projects and implementation of a set of measures are given. For example, the "Green Thread" is a daily meeting of the team of the "Liberation" newspaper. Or the development of the document "Alpine Convention and Macroregional Alpine Strategy". The experience of developing solutions for the construction of wooden houses using innovative materials such as facades that generate electricity will be useful to many enterprises in the world.