As 2022 comes to a close, we thank you for your continued engagement with SDSN USA. This year, members have come together to ask questions, share learnings, strengthen coalitions, and develop and share evidence-based policy recommendations across the SDGs. SDSN USA looks back at the ways in which the network has contributed to the advancement of the 2030 agenda in the US, by localizing efforts towards a clean energy transition, revealing inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting zero hunger, collaborating for transformative education, and much more. 

With the addition of these members, the SDSN USA network has grown to 184 members, representing universities and research institutions in 46 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC.

This year’s report shows the growing global role of the SDSN, the world’s leading network of knowledge institutions, and the expansion of the program to 50 national, regional, and thematic networks.

At the Rio+20 Summit a decade ago, the UN member states launched a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) to put the world on the path to sustainable development that combines economic wellbeing, social justice, and environmental sustainability. We are now in the midst of the great global effort to create a global path to sustainable development that “leaves no one behind.”