Implications of Government on Sustainable Development

This paper aims to exemplifying the implications of governments on supporting sustainable development, emphasizing the correlation between government action and sustainable development, and also, the importance of interdependence between the aforementioned terms. In fact, by achieving the goal of sustainable development, we talk about economic growth and environmental protection, all having direct implications on the community. Through this analysis, by exemplifying government actions towards research development and innovation and promoting a tax system that meets the requirements of sustainable development, we want to build a research for community that emphasize the importance of good collaboration in the binomial: government, civil society . The results will suggest that the support of governments, investment in innovation, research and development, strengthen public finances, recreate circumstances for development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations. For our analysis, we retrieved data from the Eurostat for the period between 2008 and 2014, including the EU 28 member states.