According to SoED, rising inequality, biodiversity loss, the growing impact of climate change and unrelenting pressure on natural resources can lead to irreversible environmental damage in the Mediterranean basin. The region is not on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unless urgent and resolute action is taken to halt current trends, environmental degradation could have serious and lasting consequences for human health and livelihoods in the region.
With only one decade remaining for the implementation of the SDGs, the COVID-19 epidemic has compounded the challenges that the country must overcome to fulfill the promise that the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development represents to the Tunisian population of 11.69 million, a quarter of which are under fifteen years of age.