U.S.–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a framework for national and international efforts to further economic development, end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all people by 2030. In the first four years since the SDGs came into force (2016–2019), little to no progress has been made on 107 of the 169 SDG targets, and the world is even moving away from 39 of the targets. (1) In 2020, COVID-19 has created additional setbacks for SDGs. (2) With the year 2030 less than a decade away, an urgent and more ambitious response is crucial to enable SDGs to be realized globally. We need strong leadership to create secure and cooperative partnerships between governments, the private sector, and civil societies around the globe to move these goals forward at pace.
Ming Xu, Glen T. Daigger, Chuanwu Xi, Jianguo Liu, Jiuhui Qu, Pedro J. Alvarez, Pratim Biswas, Yongsheng Chen, Dana Dolinoy, Ying Fan, Huaizhu Oliver Gao, Jiming Hao, Hong He, Daniel M. Kammen, Maria Carmen Lemos, Fudong Liu, Nancy G. Love, Yonglong Lu, Denise L. Mauzerall, Shelie A. Miller, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Wei Peng, Anu Ramaswami, Zhiyong Ren, Aijie Wang, Brian Wu, Ye Wu, Junfeng Zhang, Chunmiao Zheng, Bing Zhu, Tong Zhu, Wei-Qiang Chen, Gang Liu, Shen Qu, Chunyan Wang, Yutao Wang, Xueying Yu, Chao Zhang, Hongliang Zhang; U.S.–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20 July 2021; 55 (14): 9622–9626. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c08750. CSS21-58.