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Quantitative assessment of The Group of Seven's collaboration in sustainable development goals.

ABSTRACT: Strengthening international collaboration is essential to achieving the United Nations' SDGs. The Group of Seven (G7) is recognized for acting and enhancing cooperation to achieve the SDGs. However, the current understanding of G7's cooperation is rather subjective without quantitative measurements. Here we show a comprehensive and quantitative analysis of G7's cooperation with regards to the economic and environmental SDGs over the period of 2000-2020. The results suggest that G7 countries have all contributed positively to economic indicators thanks to their closely binding relationship. By contrast, significant discrepancies and uncooperative performances in environmental indicators have been revealed. Particularly, Canada and Germany have shown considerable negative synergy contributions to environmental indicators, which might offset the positive contributions brought by France and Italy and lead to an overall negative synergy. Our results highlight the need for further collaboration among G7 to tackle emerging environmental issues, such as climate change and shrinking biodiversity.

SUBMITTER: Liu K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11343873 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quantitative assessment of The Group of Seven's collaboration in sustainable development goals.

Liu Kai K Raisolsadat Ali A Wang Xiuquan X Van Dau Quan Q

Nature communications 20240823 1

Strengthening international collaboration is essential to achieving the United Nations' SDGs. The Group of Seven (G7) is recognized for acting and enhancing cooperation to achieve the SDGs. However, the current understanding of G7's cooperation is rather subjective without quantitative measurements. Here we show a comprehensive and quantitative analysis of G7's cooperation with regards to the economic and environmental SDGs over the period of 2000-2020. The results suggest that G7 countries have ...[more]

PMID: 39179562

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Quantitative assessment of The Group of Seven's collaboration in sustainable development goals.

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Quantitative assessment of The Group of Seven's collaboration in sustainable development goals.

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