Greater gains for Australia by tackling all SDGs but the last steps will be the most challenging

Allen, Cameron; Metternicht, Graciela; Wiedmann, Thomas; Pedercini, Matteo

doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0409-9

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“…This provides a relatively restrictive subset of interactions between SDGs relevant to companies' operations. Country-specific assessments have focussed on 22 Arab countries assessing 'level of urgency', 'systemic impact', and 'policy gaps' (Allen et al 2019a), Australia (Allen et al 2019b), or Sweden (Weitz et al 2018) latter using the seven-point scale (Nilsson et al 2016) in an influence (or cross-impact) matrix, assessed all pairwise interactions between two targets from each SDG (excluding SDG 17). Two targets were selected as being of most relevance for Sweden, and the resulting 34 × 34 impact matrix showed that most interactions (96%) were positive or neutral.…”

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Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages

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Only 10 years remain to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally, so there is a growing need to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of action by targeting multiple SDGs. The SDGs were conceived as an 'indivisible whole', but interactions between SDGs need to be better understood. Several previous assessments have begun to explore interactions including synergies and possible conflicts between the SDGs, and differ widely in their conclusions. Although some highlight the role of the more environmentally-focused SDGs in underpinning sustainable development, none specifically focuses on environment-human linkages. Assessing interactions between SDGs, and the influence of environment on them can make an important contribution to informing decisions in 2020 and beyond. Here, we review previous assessments of interactions among SDGs, apply an influence matrix to assess pairwise interactions between all SDGs, and show how viewing these from the perspective of environment-human linkages can influence the outcome. Environment, and environment-human linkages, influence most interactions between SDGs. Our action-focused assessment enables decision makers to focus environmental management to have the greatest impacts and to identify opportunities to build on synergies and reduce trade-offs between particular SDGs. It may enable sectoral decision makers to seek support from environment managers for achieving their goals. We explore cross-cutting issues and the relevance and potential application of our approach in supporting decision making for progress to achieve the SDGs.

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“…While there have been studies which extend the SSPs to be regionally relevant (Absar and Preston 2015 ; Frame et al 2018 ; Kok et al 2019 ; Nilsson et al 2017 ; Palazzo et al 2017 ; Reimann, Merkens and Vafeidis 2018 ; Zandersen et al 2019 ), and additionally studies which incorporate SSPs and SDGs at a sub-global scale (Allen et al 2019 ; Gil et al 2019 ; Moyer and Hedden 2020 ), a new approach was needed to address the unique challenges of assessing the achievement of the SDGs (Allen, Metternicht and Wiedmann 2016 , 2017 ), at both global and local scales. By downscaling and linking the SDGs to the existing pathway framework of the SSPs, we have provided a consistent and tested method to generate pathways that can be used with any SDG implementation.…”

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“…The original SSPs are defined in a two-dimensional space based on challenges to climate mitigation and climate adaptation (O’Neill et al 2014 ). However, this conceptual space can be adapted depending on the context (Allen et al ( 2019 ). To define our pathways in the context of the SDGs, we constructed a three-dimensional space with each axis representing one of the three dimensions of the SDGs i.e., people, planet, and prosperity (UN 2015 ).…”

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“…Pathways explore plausible states of the world towards fulfilment of the SDGs (Allen et al 2019 ; O’Neill et al 2019 ; Zimm, Sperling and Busch 2018 ). The SSPs are global narratives that describe potential futures based upon challenges to climate change adaptation and mitigation developed by the global change research community (O’Neill et al 2014 , 2017 ).…”

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“…Moyer and Hedden ( 2020 ) projected limited progress towards several SDGs under the Middle-of-the-road SSP2 and Zimm et al ( 2018 ) suggested broadening the basis of the SSP narratives to encompass all areas of the SDGs. In one of the few national-level assessments, Allen et al ( 2019 ) found that Australia would find it challenging to completely achieve the SDGs under the SSPs without major socioeconomic transformation. However, pathway analysis for the SDGs that relies on the aggregation of data at national or global levels cannot capture the socioeconomic and environmental heterogeneity prevalent at local scales (Patole 2018 ).…”

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Cited by 93 publications

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