Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

GLOBAL GOAL SCENARIOS

Rapid SDG progress possible

Nature Sustainability volume 2, pages 999–1000 (2019)Cite this article

Subjects

The Sustainable Development Goals elegantly capture humanity’s shared aspirations, but it’s at the national level where the rubber hits the road. Progress is possible across multiple goals but challenges to comprehensive achievement remain.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Allen, C., Metternicht, G., Wiedmann, T. & Pedercini, M. Nat. Sustain. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0409-9 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (United Nations, 2015).

  3. Whitmee, S. et al. Lancet 386, 1973–2028 (2015).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Griggs, D. et al. Nature 495, 305–307 (2013).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. iSDG Model Documentation (Millennium Institute, 2017); https://go.nature.com/2nB4keW

  6. IPCC Global Warming of 1.5°C (eds Masson-Delmotte, V. et al.) (IPCC, 2018).

  7. Díaz, S. et al. Summary for Policymakers of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019).

  8. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Australia 2019 (OECD, 2019).

  9. Steffen, W. et al. Science 347, 1259855 (2015).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

    Brett A. Bryan, Michalis Hadjikakou & Enayat A. Moallemi

Authors
  1. Brett A. Bryan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Michalis Hadjikakou
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Enayat A. Moallemi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Brett A. Bryan.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Bryan, B.A., Hadjikakou, M. & Moallemi, E.A. Rapid SDG progress possible. Nat Sustain 2, 999–1000 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0422-z

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0422-z

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing Anthropocene

Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Anthropocene newsletter — what matters in anthropocene research, free to your inbox weekly.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing: Anthropocene