【原文标题】Prospects for global sustainable development through integrating the environmental impacts of economic activities

【文章摘要】Human economic activities drive the production and consumption of goods and services, contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the extent of economic growth's influence on the SDGs remains unclear. To fill this knowledge gap, here, we quantified the environmental effects of economic activities and explored correlations between environmental effect and achieving SDGs. We developed six Environmental Footprint Indices, with a higher score indicating better efficiency or lower burden. Here we show that the various Environmental Footprint Indices had synergistic and trade-off effects on most SDG targets indices, but the synergistic effects prevailed. As income increased, the correlation between Environmental Footprint Indices and SDG target indices gradually strengthened. improved production efficiency and consumption changes notably advance SDGs, especially in low-income group countries. Our work provides scientific insights into the impact and prospects of environmental regulation required for achieving the SDGs by 2030.

【文章作者】Siqi Han, Chunding Li, Mengyu Li, Manfred Lenzen, Xiuzhi Chen, Yuqian Zhang, Mo Li, Tuo Yin, Yingjie Li, Juan Li, Jianguo Liu & Yunkai Li

【作者单位】State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Agricultural Water Resources, Beijing, China. College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China

Agricultural University, Beijing, China. Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East

Lansing, MI, USA. College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. ISA, School of Physics, The University of Sydney,

Sydney, NSW, Australia. Center for Marine Resource Studies, The School for Field Studies, Cockburn Harbour, Turks and Caicos Islands. School of

Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Doerr

School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. 

【发表期刊】Nature Communications, (2024) 15:8424

【基金资助】National Natural Science Foundation of China (51621061, Y. L.), International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (PC2021090, X.C.), National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund Project (52309072, X.C.), National Social Science Foundation of China (20 & ZD119, C.L.). The University of Sydney Horizon Fellowship (Mengyu. Li). The Australian Research Council under its Discovery project (ARC DP200102585, M.L.), the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst through a HWK Fellowship for Manfred Lenzen (M.L.). The General Program of Shenzhen Municipal Science, Technology and Innovation Commission (20220818105454004, Mo Li) and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2023A1515011815, Mo Li). U.S. National Science Foundation (Grants No. 1924111, 2033507 and 2118329, J.L.), Michigan AgBioResearch

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