An integrated framework for sustainable development goals
By D. Griggs, M. Smith, J. Rockström, M. Öhman, Owen Gaffney, G. Glaser, N. Kanie, I. Noble, Will Steffen, P. Shyamsundar. 2014
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The United Nations (UN) Rio+20 summit committed nations to develop a set of universal sustainable development goals (SDGs) to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) set to expire in 2015. Research now indicates that humanity's impact on Earth's life support system is so great that further global environmental change risks undermining long-term prosperity and poverty eradication goals. Socioeconomic development and global sustainability are often posed as being in conflict because of tradeoffs between a growing world population, as well as higher standards of living, and managing the effects of production and consumption on the global environment. We have established a framework for an evidence-based architecture for new goals and targets. Building on six SDGs, which integrate development and environmental considerations, we developed a comprehensive framework of goals and associated targets, which demonstrate that it is possible, and necessary, to develop integrated targets relating to food, energy, water, and ecosystem services goals; thus providing a neutral evidence-based approach to support SDG target discussions. Global analyses, using an integrated global target equation, are close to providing indicators for these targets. Alongside development-only targets and environment-only targets, these integrated targets would ensure that synergies are maximized and trade-offs are managed in the implementation of SDGs.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An enabling role for accounting research (2017, background): “Since the MDGs were developed, knowledge about ecosystem integrity has highlighted that the stability of ecosystems has deteriorated such that there may be “large-scale, abrupt, and potentially irreversible changes” on the horizon (Griggs et al., 2014, p. 49, see also Scheyvens et al., 2016).”
- Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages (2018, background): “A paradigm shift to policy and institutional frameworks that take an integrated, holistic perspective is long overdue (Griggs et al 2014, Cherian 2015, Bartram and Dodds 2016, Boas et al 2016).”
- Towards Integration at Last?: The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets (2015, background): “…practical way around this difficulty is suggested by Griggs et al. (2014), who suggest to link some of the existing targets under different SDGs through so-called IPAT equations, thus providing potential cross-checks on what progress on some of the targets imply for others (Griggs et al., 2014).”
- Translating Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Interdependencies into Policy Advice (2019, methodology): “Such data constraints are one of the reasons why the practical application of some of the reviewed frameworks and approaches has thus far remained limited to specific cases, for which information availability is high [5,22,26,30].”
- Towards systemic and contextual priority setting for implementing the 2030 Agenda (2017, methodology): “Prior to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, this included efforts to support integrated target setting (see, e.g., Griggs et al. 2013, 2014; Nilsson et al. 2013).”