TY - JOUR
T1 - Global transboundary synergies and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals from an integrated sustainability perspective
AU - Xiao, Huijuan
AU - Bao, Sheng
AU - Ren, Jingzheng
AU - Xu, Zhenci
AU - Xue, Song
AU - Liu, Jianguo
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this paper was supported by a grant from Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Project No. 1-CD4J, Project ID: P0041367) (J.R.), a grant from Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality (RCRE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) (Project No.1-BBEC, Project ID: P0043023) (J.R.), a grant from Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China-General Research Fund (Project ID: P0042030, Funding Body Ref. No: 15304222, Project No. B-Q97U) (J.R.), U.S. National Science Foundation (Grants No. 1924111, 2033507 and 2118329), Michigan AgBioResearch (J.L.), National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant #42101249), and the University of Hong Kong HKU-100 Scholars Fund (Z.X.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s).
PY - 2024/1/13
Y1 - 2024/1/13
N2 - Domestic attempts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a country can have synergistic and/or trade-off effects on the advancement of SDGs in other countries. Transboundary SDG interactions can be delivered through various transmission channels (e.g., trade, river flow, ocean currents, and air flow). This study quantified the transboundary interactions through these channels between 768 pairs of SDG indicators. The results showed that although high income countries only comprised 14.18% of the global population, they contributed considerably to total SDG interactions worldwide (60.60%). Transboundary synergistic effects via international trade were 14.94% more pronounced with trade partners outside their immediate geographic vicinity than with neighbouring ones. Conversely, nature-caused flows (including river flow, ocean currents, and air flow) resulted in 39.29% stronger transboundary synergistic effects among neighboring countries compared to non-neighboring ones. To facilitate the achievement of SDGs worldwide, it is essential to enhance collaboration among countries and leverage transboundary synergies.
AB - Domestic attempts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a country can have synergistic and/or trade-off effects on the advancement of SDGs in other countries. Transboundary SDG interactions can be delivered through various transmission channels (e.g., trade, river flow, ocean currents, and air flow). This study quantified the transboundary interactions through these channels between 768 pairs of SDG indicators. The results showed that although high income countries only comprised 14.18% of the global population, they contributed considerably to total SDG interactions worldwide (60.60%). Transboundary synergistic effects via international trade were 14.94% more pronounced with trade partners outside their immediate geographic vicinity than with neighbouring ones. Conversely, nature-caused flows (including river flow, ocean currents, and air flow) resulted in 39.29% stronger transboundary synergistic effects among neighboring countries compared to non-neighboring ones. To facilitate the achievement of SDGs worldwide, it is essential to enhance collaboration among countries and leverage transboundary synergies.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-023-44679-w
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-44679-w
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38216549
AN - SCOPUS:85182180931
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 15
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 500
ER -