An MCDM assessment of achieving the 12th goal of the 2030 Agenda

Abstract

The responsible consumption of natural resources has become a critical issue because the unrenewable resource base could be exhausted in future decades. In order of enabling sustainable development, the General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that involves 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 169 targets pointed to the different aspects of production and living. In this paper, we try to discover how far get the countries in Southern Europe regarding the 12th SDG – Responsible consumption and production. The assessment of the progress of the given countries is performed relative to the five indicators. The Entropy method is used for the determination of the criteria significance while the final ranking of the countries is done by application of the EDAS method.