By Amy Quinton and Daniel Newman
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are global development targets adopted in September 2015, set to be achieved by 2030, by all United Nations Member States. All countries have agreed to work towards achieving these goals. Underneath the 17 goals are 169 SDG targets and 232 unique indicators to measure progress on the goals.
Climate Action is number 13 of these 17 SDGs that the world has agreed is of critical importance.
A separate initiative, Project Drawdown, has identified a range of solutions ("drawdown solutions"), ranked via objective measures of CO2-equivalent reduction and net-costs, that if implemented will go a long way to achieving the Climate Action SDG.
We realised that many of these drawdown solutions also provide additional sustainable development benefits, related directly to many of the other 17 SDGs. So we attempted to categorise which of Project Drawdown's top 76 solutions we thought related to which of the 17 SDGs. Our rudimentary assessment shows that the Project Drawdown's solutions make a positive contribution to 16 of the 17 SDGs, not just to the Climate Action SDG!
drawdown-sdgs.Rmd has the code we used to for the analysis, pull requests welcome.