Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Air, Water and Landscape Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Sci Rep. 2021 Nov 25;11(1):22092. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01534-6.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development gives equal emphasis to developed ("Northern") countries and developing ("Southern") countries. Thus, implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands coherent collaboration to transform society across all countries. Yet, there has been little research published on SDG partnerships and this is the first study to explore the extent to which partners from Northern and Southern countries are involved in them and their focus. It identifies that involvement is unequally distributed and may perpetuate the North-South divide in countries' resources, including access to data and scientific capacities. Most notably, partners from low-income countries are involved in far fewer partnerships than partners from countries in all other World Bank income categories, although the former are least able to develop sustainably. As such, all those promoting sustainable development from governmental, private and third-sector organisations need to address global inequalities in establishing and implementing SDG partnerships if, collectively, they are to facilitate delivery of Agenda 2030.
《2030 年可持续发展议程》同等重视发达国家（“北方”国家）和发展中国家（“南方”国家）。因此，实施可持续发展目标（SDGs）需要在所有国家进行协调一致的合作，以实现社会转型。然而，关于可持续发展目标伙伴关系的研究很少，这是第一项探讨北方和南方国家的伙伴参与程度及其重点的研究。研究结果表明，参与程度不均衡，可能会使国家资源（包括获取数据和科学能力）方面的南北差距永久化。最值得注意的是，与其他所有世界银行收入类别的国家相比，来自低收入国家的伙伴参与的伙伴关系要少得多，尽管前者最难以实现可持续发展。因此，如果政府、私营和第三部门组织都要促进可持续发展，就需要解决建立和实施可持续发展目标伙伴关系方面的全球不平等问题，以便共同推动 2030 年议程的实施。
