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Finland is committed to sustainable development work, which is guided by the global UN sustainable development action program Agenda2030. The program aims in broad sustainable development work and recognizes cities as key actors in achieving the goals. In Finland, the Commitment2050 online database serves as a tool for achieving the goals of sustainable development. In the website, different actors, including cities and municipalities, commits to operational commitments which require concrete action that promotes sustainability. The purpose of this work is to examine what kind of sustainable development commitments cities and municipalities have made on the “Commitment2050” -website. The thesis aims to create an overall picture of the operational commitments of cities and municipalities. In addition, the thesis highlights what kind of follow-up has been done regarding the commitments and how the actors have evaluated the implementation of the goals of their commitments. The study examined a total of 209 commitments made by cities and municipalities from between the years 2013 and 2022. Monitoring commitments is important so assessment of sustainability implementation can be made. Surprisingly, the study found that a significant proportion of commitments had done no follow-up at all. The actors who had done the monitoring had assessed the fulfillment of the objectives in a very diverse way, which made it difficult to draw conclusions. Thus, deeper knowledge is needed on the commitments implementation.