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An assessment of requirements in investments, new technologies, and infrastructures to achieve the SDGs

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Leal Filho, Walter
Guedes Vidal, Diogo
Chen, Chen
Petrova, Maria
Pimenta Dinis, Maria Alzira
Yang, Peter
Rogers, Steven
Álvarez‑Castañón, Lorena
Đekic, Ilija
Sharif, Ayyoob
Neiva, Samara
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Background: The implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires much planning and the provision of resources, especially regarding the necessary investments, technologies and infrastructures needed. Yet, it is presently unclear how available these elements are, what gaps exist, what changes have taken place in terms of their availability since the adoption of the SDGs and what their requirements will be in the future. The knowledge gap has become even more concerning because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a bibliometric analysis, an assessment of the global progress of SDG implementation and requirements, identifying challenges through the development of a matrix, and a set of 11 case studies to triangulate the holistic analysis, an assessment of the global progress of the SDGs implementation and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this process was carried out. Results: The fndings suggest that the scope and width of resources limitation ar...e currently undermining the imple‑ mentation of the SDGs. Apart from the fact that the pace of progress has been insufcient, the potential of the SDGs in pursuing sustainability and improving life quality is not fully realised. This trend suggests that a substantial accelera‑ tion of the eforts is needed, especially for the fve SDGs whose progress since 2015 has not been optimal, namely SDG2, SDG11, SDG13, SDG15, and SDG16, while SDG3, SDG7, SDG9, SDG14, and SDG17 show signs of progress. The case studies showed that diferent industries have dissimilar efects on achieving the SDGs, with the food sector cor‑ relating with 15 SDGs, as opposed to the energy sector correlating with 6 SDGs. Accordingly, the priority level assess‑ ment in terms of achieving the SDGs, points to the need to further advance the above-mentioned fve SDGs, i.e., 2, 11, 13, 15 and 16. Conclusions: This study flls in a knowledge gap in respect of the current need for and availability of investments, new technologies, and infrastructures to allow countries to pursue the SDGs. It is suggested that this availability is rather limited in specifc contexts. In respect of the needs to be addressed, these include resource-related constraints, limited technologies and infrastructures, afecting SDG2, SDG11, SDG13, SDG15, and SDG16, whose progress needs to be enhanced. Since the global progress in the process of implementation of the SDGs depends directly and indirectly on addressing the resource gaps, it is suggested that this topic be further investigated, so that the present imbalances.

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Investment challenges / Technological challenges / Infrastructural challenges / Achievement of UN SDGs / Bibliometric analysis / Case studies
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Environmental Sciences Europe, 2022, 34:58, 2-17

DOI: 10.1186/s12302-022-00629-9

ISSN: 2190-4707; 2190-4715

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