German Sustainable Development Strategy - Monitoring by the Federal Statistical Office

The Federal Statistical Office is responsible for monitoring the national sustainability indicators and reporting on their statements and developments. To this end, the Federal Statistical Office publishes indicator reports and has been operating an online platform under its own technical responsibility since February 2020.

While the online platform is continuously updated to reflect the latest developments in the indicators, the indicators are reviewed every two years by the Federal Statistical Office in indicator reports to determine the status of target achievement. In doing so, it carries out a trend evaluation and formulates an assessment of whether or not the targets are being achieved according to the current state of development. The Federal Statistical Office thus also provides information on the status of sustainable development in Germany between the progress reports published by the Federal Government every four years. Even though the goals and associated indicators of the DNS have been defined politically, their presentation in the indicator reports is based on the statistical principles of professional independence, objectivity and neutrality. Professional independence is also important to the Federal Government and is guaranteed by the Federal Government in the cabinet resolution on the 2016 DNS of 11 January 2017.