Overlooked uneven progress across sustainable development goals at the global scale: Challenges and opportunities.

ABSTRACT: Differences in progress across sustainable development goals (SDGs) are widespread globally; meanwhile, the rising call for prioritizing specific SDGs may exacerbate such gaps. Nevertheless, how these progress differences would influence global sustainable development has been long neglected. Here, we present the first quantitative assessment of SDGs' progress differences globally by adopting the SDGs progress evenness index. Our results highlight that the uneven progress across SDGs has been a hindrance to sustainable development because (1) it is strongly associated with many public health risks (e.g., air pollution), social inequalities (e.g., gender inequality, modern slavery, wealth gap), and a reduction in life expectancy; (2) it is also associated with deforestation and habitat loss

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10876912 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature