Knowledge DCE Alignment with the SDGs: Reflecting on the 2030 Agenda and Action Points for Positive Change 18 February 2026 Cycling News General Agreed upon in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a set of 17 interconnected global goals were adopted by the UN to address a wide range of challenges and themes such as poverty, health, climate change, and (urban) development just to name a few. Following current practices, countries are not on track to meeting the SDGs by 2030, making the next five years crucial for accelerating efforts and implementation towards their – at least partial – achievement. From the 6th until the 8th of October 2025, the Dutch Cycling Embassy (DCE) participated in the “Future of Sustainable Development” workshop at the University of Groningen (RUG). Organised by the RUG Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development, IREES, Utrecht University, and the Stakeholder Forum, the three-day workshop aimed to grasp the needed interplays between science, civil society, private sector, and policy for accelerating progress on the SDGs until 2030 and beyond. As an organisation that already links the various pillars in its everyday activities, the DCE is actively integrating various perspectives from the public/policy, private, and scientific perspectives toward positive change – albeit not always in a way that explicitly acknowledges alignment with the SDG Agenda. Hence, the aim of this analysis is to dissect how the local activities of DCE support global scale SDG acceleration by making these connections apparent, as well as identifying SDG related gaps that DCE may be overlooking. Read the report here: DCE Alignment with SDGS