Local SDG Governance Gaps

City action is critical to achieving SDGs. However, SDG ‘localisation’ is complex procedure, with divergent outcomes depending on context and diverse city processes and effective implementation requires sufficient data, resourcing, adequate tools and guidance—which are not readily, nor equally available to all city governments. City-to-city peer learning can accelerate SDG uptake, but realising the transformative ambition set out by the SDGs will require an approach to localisation that clearly demonstrates why and how any city government can and should engage with global sustainability frameworks.