Aggregate SDGs to cover trade-offs and prioritization

The COVID-19 pandemic might have hindered achievement of some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; see Nature 583, 331–332; 2020), but it has revealed the greater importance of those related to health and safety. I agree that achieving all SDGs while considering them equally important might be unrealistic (R. Naidoo and B. Fisher Nature 583, 198–201; 2020). An aggregated approach would allow for trade-offs between and prioritization of different goals.

Nature 584, 344 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02374-6

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