Integration: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

On 25 September, 2015, world leaders met at the United Nations in New York, where they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 targets set out an agenda for sustainable development for all nations that embraces economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection...

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Published in:Sustainability science Vol. 12; no. 6; pp. 911 - 919
Main Authors: Stafford-Smith, Mark, Griggs, David, Gaffney, Owen, Ullah, Farooq, Reyers, Belinda, Kanie, Norichika, Stigson, Bjorn, Shrivastava, Paul, Leach, Melissa, O’Connell, Deborah
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.11.2017
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
accountability
Capacity development
Climate Change Management and Policy
Earth and Environmental Science
Economic development
Economic growth
energy
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management
Environmental monitoring
Environmental protection
Finance
Governance
Government agencies
Human well-being
Inclusion
income
Integration
issues and policy
Landscape Ecology
Means of implementation
monitoring
Partnerships
Private sector
Public Health
society
Special Feature: Overview Article
Special Feature: Sustainability Science and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainability science
sustainability science and engineering
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals
trade
Trade-offs and synergies
Trade-offs and synergies
Means of implementation
Integration
Sustainable Development Goals
Governance
Human well-being
ISSN:1862-4065, 1862-4057, 1862-4057
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Summary:On 25 September, 2015, world leaders met at the United Nations in New York, where they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 targets set out an agenda for sustainable development for all nations that embraces economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection. Now, the agenda moves from agreeing the goals to implementing and ultimately achieving them. Across the goals, 42 targets focus on means of implementation, and the final goal, Goal 17, is entirely devoted to means of implementation. However, these implementation targets are largely silent about interlinkages and interdependencies among goals. This leaves open the possibility of perverse outcomes and unrealised synergies. We demonstrate that there must be greater attention on interlinkages in three areas: across sectors (e.g., finance, agriculture, energy, and transport), across societal actors (local authorities, government agencies, private sector, and civil society), and between and among low, medium and high income countries . Drawing on a global sustainability science and practice perspective, we provide seven recommendations to improve these interlinkages at both global and national levels, in relation to the UN’s categories of means of implementation: finance, technology, capacity building, trade, policy coherence, partnerships, and, finally, data, monitoring and accountability.
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ISSN:1862-4065
1862-4057
1862-4057
DOI:10.1007/s11625-016-0383-3