{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["26(2)"],"submitter":["Klemun MM"],"pubmed_abstract":["Linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have sparked research interest because a better understanding of SDG co-benefits may enable faster progress on multiple sustainability fronts. However, SDG linkages are typically analyzed without considering the technologies used to implement a primary SDG, which may have secondary effects on other SDGs. Here, we outline an approach to study this problem by connecting the industries and services required to produce a technology to the United Nations SDG indicator framework, using SDG7 and four energy technologies as an illustrative case. We find that all technologies in our set involve potential co-benefits with SDGs 1, 8-10, 12-13, and 17, and trade-offs with SDGs 6, 8-9, 11-12, and 14-15. Deployment services primarily induce co-benefits; manufacturing has mixed impacts. Our work sheds light on the technology characteristics (e.g., scale, high- or low-tech) that influence linkages while also pointing to SDG-relevant characteristics not captured by UN indicators."],"journal":["iScience"],"pagination":["105727"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9869479"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Toward evaluating the effect of technology choices on linkages between sustainable development goals."],"pmcid":["PMC9869479"],"pubmed_authors":["Klemun MM","Ojanpera S","Schweikert A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Toward evaluating the effect of technology choices on linkages between sustainable development goals.","description":"Linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have sparked research interest because a better understanding of SDG co-benefits may enable faster progress on multiple sustainability fronts. However, SDG linkages are typically analyzed without considering the technologies used to implement a primary SDG, which may have secondary effects on other SDGs. Here, we outline an approach to study this problem by connecting the industries and services required to produce a technology to the United Nations SDG indicator framework, using SDG7 and four energy technologies as an illustrative case. We find that all technologies in our set involve potential co-benefits with SDGs 1, 8-10, 12-13, and 17, and trade-offs with SDGs 6, 8-9, 11-12, and 14-15. Deployment services primarily induce co-benefits; manufacturing has mixed impacts. Our work sheds light on the technology characteristics (e.g., scale, high- or low-tech) that influence linkages while also pointing to SDG-relevant characteristics not captured by UN indicators.","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Feb","modification":"2025-04-04T19:47:49.044Z","creation":"2025-04-04T19:47:49.044Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9869479","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36698723"],"doi":["10.1016/j.isci.2022.105727"]}}