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Four governance reforms to strengthen the SDGs : A demanding policy vision can accelerate global sustainable development efforts

Biermann, Frank LU ; Sun, Yixian ; Banik, Dan ; Beisheim, Marianne ; Bloomfield, Michael J. ; Charles, Aurelie ; Chasek, Pamela ; Hickmann, Thomas LU orcid ; Pradhan, Prajal and Sénit, Carole Anne (2023) In Science (New York, N.Y.) 381(6663). p.1159-1160
Abstract
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Although the SDGs, which are to be achieved by 2030, are not the first attempt to guide policy actors through global goals, they go far beyond earlier agreements in their detail, comprehensiveness, and ambition. Yet the 2022 SDG Impact Assessment, conducted by a global consortium of researchers, has shown that the first phase of SDG implementation did not lead to a transformative reorientation of political systems and societies (12). As the UN SDG Summit gets underway this month to review... (More)
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Although the SDGs, which are to be achieved by 2030, are not the first attempt to guide policy actors through global goals, they go far beyond earlier agreements in their detail, comprehensiveness, and ambition. Yet the 2022 SDG Impact Assessment, conducted by a global consortium of researchers, has shown that the first phase of SDG implementation did not lead to a transformative reorientation of political systems and societies (12). As the UN SDG Summit gets underway this month to review the halfway point in SDG implementation, and a further UN “Summit of the Future” is planned for 2024 to debate global governance reforms, we present here a demanding yet realistic policy vision to adjust the course of SDG implementation. (Less)
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10.1126/science.adj5434
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  author       = {{Biermann, Frank and Sun, Yixian and Banik, Dan and Beisheim, Marianne and Bloomfield, Michael J. and Charles, Aurelie and Chasek, Pamela and Hickmann, Thomas and Pradhan, Prajal and Sénit, Carole Anne}},
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  series       = {{Science (New York, N.Y.)}},
  title        = {{Four governance reforms to strengthen the SDGs : A demanding policy vision can accelerate global sustainable development efforts}},
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  doi          = {{10.1126/science.adj5434}},
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