Uneven Progress Toward Sustainable Development Goals Reveals Urgency and Potential for Green Belt and Road Initiative

IF 4.2 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY
Yali Liu, Yao Ning, Jianqing Du, Yu Chen, Liwen Shan, Yaqian Yang, B. Ji, Yanfen Wang
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The “Green Belt and Road Initiative” (GBRI) is China’s international cooperation strategy aimed at expanding international collaborations between China, Asia, and Europe through regional trade, policy dialogue, and cultural exchange in order to promote the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Identifying the development characteristics and deficiencies of Belt and Road countries is critical to investment and policymaking decisions. Here, we incorporated progress evenness across SDGs based on biodiversity measurements to establish a comprehensive assessment system and evaluated the sustainable development status and trajectory of Belt and Road countries from 2017 to 2021. Our results suggest that, although most countries have experienced progress toward SDGs, disregarding evenness among goals tended to result in the overestimation of the current achievements and ignore regional gaps. Economically developed member countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) were more successful in achieving SDGs, but they also faced development bottlenecks owing to uneven development among the 17 goals, with particular shortcomings in goals related to climate actions. However, many countries with relatively poor economies, mostly in Central and Southeast Asia, performed well on eco-environment-related SDGs. Therefore, complementary collaboration among countries may provide a green development pathway to rapidly promote the achievement of SDGs in the Belt and Road region, which emphasizes the urgency and potential for the GBRI. In essence, while uneven development is a tremendous challenge for Belt and Road countries, it presents an opportunity to enhance regional cooperation in support of the GBRI.
可持续发展目标进展不平衡揭示绿色“一带一路”倡议的紧迫性和潜力
“绿色“一带一路”倡议倡议”是中国的国际合作战略,旨在通过区域贸易、政策对话和文化交流,扩大中国、亚洲和欧洲之间的国际合作,以促进可持续发展目标的实现。识别“一带一路”国家的发展特点和不足对投资和决策至关重要。在这里,我们结合了基于生物多样性测量的可持续发展目标的进展均匀性,建立了一个综合评估系统,并评估了2017年至2021年“一带一路”国家的可持续发展状况和轨迹。我们的研究结果表明,尽管大多数国家都在实现可持续发展目标方面取得了进展,但忽视目标之间的均匀性往往会导致高估当前的成就,忽视地区差距。经济合作与发展组织(经合组织)的经济发达成员国在实现可持续发展目标方面更为成功,但由于17个目标中的发展不均衡,它们也面临着发展瓶颈,特别是与气候行动有关的目标存在不足。然而,许多经济相对较差的国家,主要是中亚和东南亚国家,在与生态环境相关的可持续发展目标方面表现良好。因此,各国之间的互补合作可能为迅速推动一带一路地区实现可持续发展目标提供一条绿色发展道路,这突出了GBRI的紧迫性和潜力。从本质上讲,尽管不均衡发展对“一带一路”国家来说是一个巨大的挑战,但它为加强支持GBRI的区域合作提供了机会。
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
CiteScore
7.10
自引率
2.00%
发文量
40
审稿时长
22 weeks
期刊介绍: Ecosystem Health and Sustainability publishes articles on advances in ecology and sustainability science, how global environmental change affects ecosystem health, how changes in human activities affect ecosystem conditions, and system-based approaches for applying ecological science in decision-making to promote sustainable development. Papers focus on applying ecological theory, principles, and concepts to support sustainable development, especially in regions undergoing rapid environmental change. Papers on multi-scale, integrative, and interdisciplinary studies, and on international collaborations between scientists from industrialized and industrializing countries are especially welcome. Suitable topics for EHS include: • Global, regional and local studies of international significance • Impact of global or regional environmental change on natural ecosystems • Interdisciplinary research involving integration of natural, social, and behavioral sciences • Science and policy that promote the use of ecological sciences in decision making • Novel or multidisciplinary approaches for solving complex ecological problems • Multi-scale and long-term observations of ecosystem evolution • Development of novel systems approaches or modeling and simulation techniques • Rapid responses to emerging ecological issues.
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