Trade, transboundary impacts and the implementation of SDG 12

Amos, Rob; Lydgate, Emily

doi:10.1007/s11625-019-00713-9

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“…These projects have the potential to support both the health (SDG 3) and land biodiversity (SDG 15) goals, as well as improving access of women to reproductive and sexual health services (an SDG 5 gender equality target) (Middleton et al 2020 ). In the UK and elsewhere, researchers have found that international trade agreements are leading to major trade-offs among the SDGs (Amos and Lydgate 2019 ). To counter these trade-offs, it has been proposed to embed Sustainability Assessments into existing and new trade agreements .…”

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“…To counter these trade-offs, it has been proposed to embed Sustainability Assessments into existing and new trade agreements . This can be an effective policy tool for achieving greater compliance with the decent work and economic growth aspects of SDG 8, and help advance the goals for clean water (SDG 6), climate (SDG 13), marine protection (SDG 14), and biodiversity (SDG 15) (Amos and Lydgate 2019 ; Lydgate and Amos in preparation). In farming communities in Kenya and fisher communities in South India, research has found that “ people-centered early warning systems ” for extreme weather events (national early warning systems tuned to the needs of specific communities and locales) can help these communities adapt to extreme weather conditions related to climate variability (SDG 13), as well as protect their livelihoods (SDG 8).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the UK and elsewhere, researchers have found that international trade agreements are leading to major trade-offs among the SDGs (Amos and Lydgate 2019 ). To counter these trade-offs, it has been proposed to embed Sustainability Assessments into existing and new trade agreements .…”

Section: Synergy Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Synergy Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies

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The topic of SDG interactions is a relatively new research area with many knowledge gaps. Some of these gaps are addressed in this summary of a Special Feature of Sustainability Science, including new findings and emerging issues on (1) the characteristics of SDG interactions; (2) methods/methodology to analyse these interactions; and (3) the elaboration of drivers that influence SDG synergies. The importance of scale is clear in two emerging issues. First, there is evidence of a disconnect between national planning for SDGs and their implementation at the local scale which is leading to SDG trade-offs between these scales. Second, the concept of a “critical transition zone” is introduced where SDG trade-offs pose a particular challenge to SDG implementation. These are areas (e.g., peri-urban and forest margin areas in the Global South) undergoing rapid biophysical and/or socio-economic changes and inhabited by populations especially vulnerable to these changes. While trade-offs occur among the SDGs, there are also many examples of synergies which provide opportunities for advancing multiple goals. To distinguish between synergies and the actions that exploit them, the term “synergy driver” is introduced to refer to policies and measures that positively advance two or more goals. Several examples of synergy drivers are presented, including sustainable global supply chains, people-centred early warning systems, and joint conservation-public health programmes. To make synergy drivers relevant to the broader policy community, the research community (working with stakeholders) should first consolidate knowledge about these drivers and then evaluate their effectiveness/applicability to different policy settings.

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Section: Synergy Driversmentioning

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Section: Synergy Driversmentioning

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“…We use a global dataset with 173 countries to assess the overall relationship between resource footprints, quality of life, and economic development over the period 1990-2015. We prefer footprint indicators over territorial environmental indicators, as footprints consider international supply chains and are therefore robust against burden-shifting, a key requirement in the transformation towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns [43]. We select material footprint (MF) and carbon footprint (CF) as resource use indicators and contrast them with the Human Development Index (HDI), the Happiness Index (HI), and GDP per capita.…”

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Towards a Comprehensive Framework of the Relationships between Resource Footprints, Quality of Life, and Economic Development

Cibulka

Giljum

2020

Sustainability

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The relationship between economic affluence, quality of life, and environmental implications of production and consumption activities is a recurring issue in sustainability discussions. A number of studies examined selected relationships, but the general implications for future development options to achieve environmentally and socially sustainable development of countries at different levels of per capita resource footprints, quality of life, and income have not yet been investigated in detail. In this study, we use a global dataset with 173 countries to assess the overall relationship between resource footprints, quality of life, and economic development over the period of 1990–2015. We select the material footprint and carbon footprint and contrast them with the Human Development Index, the Happiness Index, and GDP per capita. Regression analyses show that the relationship between various resource footprints and quality of life generally follows a logarithmic path of development, while resource footprints and GDP per capita are linearly connected. From the empirical results, we derive a generalized path of development and cluster countries along this path. Within this comprehensive framework, we discuss options to change the path to respect planetary and social boundaries through a combination of resource efficiency increases, substitution of industries and sufficiency of consumption. We conclude that decoupling and green growth will not realize sustainable development if planetary boundaries have already been transgressed.

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Green connection to the world: Building regional responsible sustainable development strategies

Yang,

Wang

2023

Sustainable Development

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Green development and solutions to environmental problems rely on local conditions and green connections between regions during their development. However, it is less understood whether a region's emission of carbon and pollutants is moderate compared to its development. The study proposes the ‘green connection of regional development’ concept from the consumption perspective to enhance the understanding and measurement of regional capacity towards green development and responsible production and consumption. Data envelopment analysis was performed to evaluate the local and embodied emissions of eight pollutants for 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2017. Twenty provinces had optimal capacity of green growth within the region and 15 had an optimal green connection of regional development. Suboptimal levels of overall green growth and green connection of regional development efficiencies were due to insufficient pure technical and scale efficiency levels, with a stronger impact of the former.

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Trade, transboundary impacts and the implementation of SDG 12

Abstract: The 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were developed to '

Cited by 40 publications

References 14 publications

Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies

Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies

Towards a Comprehensive Framework of the Relationships between Resource Footprints, Quality of Life, and Economic Development

Green connection to the world: Building regional responsible sustainable development strategies

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