Nature：中国可持续发展目标进展的时空动态分析

中国农业大学李云开教授与密歇根州立大学Liu Jianguo团队开发和测试了一种系统的方法来量化中国在国家和地方层面上联合国17项可持续发展目标的进展状况。相关文章发表于Nature（IF=43.070）。

 

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Abstract

To address global challenges, 193 countries have committed to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Quantifying progress towards achieving the SDGs is essential to track global efforts towards sustainable development and guide policy development and implementation. However, systematic methods for assessing spatio-temporal progress towards achieving the SDGs are lacking. Here we develop and test systematic methods to quantify progress towards the 17 SDGs at national and subnational levels in China. Our analyses indicate that China’s SDG Index score (an aggregate score representing the overall performance towards achieving all 17 SDGs) increased at the national level from 2000 to 2015. Every province also increased its SDG Index score over this period. There were large spatio-temporal variations across regions. For example, eastern China had a higher SDG Index score than western China in the 2000s, and southern China had a higher SDG Index score than northern China in 2015. At the national level, the scores of 13 of the 17 SDGs improved over time, but the scores of four SDGs declined. This study suggests the need to track the spatio-temporal dynamics of progress towards SDGs at the global level and in other nations.

为应对全球性挑战，193个国家承诺支持联合国17项可持续发展目标。量化实现可持续发展目标的进展对跟踪全球可持续发展努力并指导政策制定和实施至关重要。但是，缺乏系统的方法来评估实现可持续发展目标的时空进展。本研究开发和测试了一种系统的方法来量化中国在国家和地方层面上17项可持续发展目标的进展状况。分析表明，从2000年到2015年，中国的可持续发展目标指数分数（代表实现所有17项可持续发展目标的总体表现的总成绩）在全国范围内有所上升。在此期间，每个省的可持续发展目标指数得分也有所提高。区域间存在较大的时空差异。例如，2000年东部地区的可持续发展目标指数得分高于西部地区，2015年南部地区的可持续发展目标指数得分高于北部地区。在国家层面，17项可持续发展目标中的13项得分随着时间的推移有所提高，但4项可持续发展目标的得分有所下降。这项研究表明，有必要在全球和其他国家追踪实现可持续发展目标的时空动态。