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Redefining sustainable development

decade, is flawed and does not reflect reality. Following up from recent UN meetings on the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a group of international scientists have published a call

To curb biodiversity loss, development cooperation needs a rethink

achieve the SDGs Insights can be useful for the design of a new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework BETWEEN RADICAL AND REALISTIC: North-south cooperation has traditionally focused on capacity-building

How to manage future freshwater

This means that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must “acknowledge the biosphere as the fundamental basis for all the SDGs, and resilience and sustainability as inseparable central goals”. “A

Development within Earth's limits

within Earth limits" approach in the further process of designing SDGs. We argue that the twin priorities for the formulation of SDGs must be the protection of the biosphere and the reduction of poverty as

Why goals for a sustainable future need to be woven together 

negotiations on a new strategy for nature and people,” says Professor Sandra Díaz, lead author of the paper. Link to publication Request publication Podcast: In the SDGs, where have biodiversity and ecosystem

The sustainable future of African agriculture

Swedbio How can African agriculture and food systems reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while staying with planetary boundaries? And how do the visions for agriculture and food systems in

Why biodiversity matters

deep sea – something remote, separate, vanishing. But does that resonate in our daily lives? As scientists we can do much more to take global agendas and targets like IPBES, SDGs and Aichi and

"A global partnership for ocean health"

Photo: T. Svensson/Azote Bildtext får vara max två rader text. Hela texten ska högerjusteras om den bara ska innehålla fotobyline! Photo: B. Christensen/ Azote FOOD AND MARINE SYSTEMS "A global partnership for ocean health" Johan Rockström and leader

Agricultural landscapes: resilience-based interventions can help achieve Sustainable Development Goals

important solution space for addressing both environmental sustainability and food security challenges outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Reaching this potential will require rapid

How the sustainable development goals can help save wetlands

priorities A top down approach to SDGs is too general when applied to specific wetlands. This motivated the authors to take a bottom up approach looking at 45 different wetlands to find priority SDGs targets