TY - UNPB
T1 - Climate action and gender equality matter most for China's sustainable development
AU - Wu, Chaoyang
AU - Xing, Qiang
AU - Chen, Fang
AU - Liu, Jianguo
AU - Pradhan, Prajal
AU - Bryan, Brett
AU - Schaubroeck, Thomas
AU - Carrasco, Luis Roman
AU - Gonsamo, Alemu
AU - Li, Yunkai
AU - Chen, Xiuzhi
AU - Deng, Xiangzheng
AU - Albanese, Andrea
AU - Li, Yingjie
AU - Xu, Zhenci
PY - 2023/6/29
Y1 - 2023/6/29
N2 - Rescuing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from failing requires understanding their interactions networks, i.e., synergies and trade-offs, at national and especially sub-national levels, where SDGs were delivered. This understanding will help itendifying the key hurdles and opportunities to prioritize the 17 SDGs in a indivisible manner for a country. However, current research on SDG priorities at sub-national levels remains limited mainly due to difficulty in data collection. Here, we collect a unified annual dataset of 102 indicators covering national and 31 provinces in China over 2000–2020. We analyze the importance of the 17 SDGs at national, provincial and regional levels through synergy and trade-off networks. The key SDGs in trade-off (provincial: 12/31, regional: 1/6) differ more than synergy (provincial: 7/31, regional: 0). Nevertheless, combating climate change (SDG13) and improving gender equality (SDG5) are overall key hurdles for China to achieving 2030 agenda. Focusing on poverty eradication (SDG1) and increasing clean water and sanitation (SDG6) have highly compound positive effect. Our findings provide essential knowledge and insight on adopting common but diffrentiaetd SDGs priorities and balance mattering China’s sustainable development.
AB - Rescuing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from failing requires understanding their interactions networks, i.e., synergies and trade-offs, at national and especially sub-national levels, where SDGs were delivered. This understanding will help itendifying the key hurdles and opportunities to prioritize the 17 SDGs in a indivisible manner for a country. However, current research on SDG priorities at sub-national levels remains limited mainly due to difficulty in data collection. Here, we collect a unified annual dataset of 102 indicators covering national and 31 provinces in China over 2000–2020. We analyze the importance of the 17 SDGs at national, provincial and regional levels through synergy and trade-off networks. The key SDGs in trade-off (provincial: 12/31, regional: 1/6) differ more than synergy (provincial: 7/31, regional: 0). Nevertheless, combating climate change (SDG13) and improving gender equality (SDG5) are overall key hurdles for China to achieving 2030 agenda. Focusing on poverty eradication (SDG1) and increasing clean water and sanitation (SDG6) have highly compound positive effect. Our findings provide essential knowledge and insight on adopting common but diffrentiaetd SDGs priorities and balance mattering China’s sustainable development.
U2 - 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3053894/v1
DO - 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3053894/v1
M3 - Preprint
BT - Climate action and gender equality matter most for China's sustainable development
PB - Research Square Company
ER -