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> The smallest distance in relation to the target set for SDG 7 can be observed for Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Austria To me, that says Estonia is among the
by leereeves 3y ago
> The smallest distance in relation to the target set for SDG 7 can be observed for Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Austria
To me, that says Estonia is among the closest to reaching the targets. How do you read it?
Another quote in the paper says something similar:
> the group of countries that came closest to the 2030 target in 2021, apart from the three Scandinavian countries, includes Estonia, Austria, and Slovenia
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoAh it's me that misread it then. I interpreted it as the smallest distance travelled towards the goals in comparison the the countries in the following sentence which have made most progress. Now I'm not sure what it means. If other countries have made more progress over the last decade, how can the countries listed with Estonia be closer to their goals?
- Etheryte 3y agoThe metric isn't that everyone should improve by some amount, but rather that everyone should reach a certain threshold. If you were closer to the threshold to begin with you can make less progress and still be closer to achieving it.