The theme of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in July 2020 is "Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development" and is is based on the Political Declaration from the SDG Summit of September 2019, and the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) to that Summit. In this first year of the second quadrennial cycle of the HLPF, 6 ‘entry points’ have been identified to emphasize interlinkages across the SDGs and identify where interventions can: explore synergies across goals and targets; mitigate trade-offs between them; and, accelerate progress towards the overarching objective – ‘leaving no one behind’. This paper provides a response to the questions posed to international experts in respect of Theme 6 "Bolstering local action to accelerate implementation". Theme 6 is directed to local action and implementation and this paper provides a case-study of vertical integration of the SDGs in Scotland, one of the 4 nations within the UK.

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