Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages
Abstract There is an urgent need to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and recent research has identified six critical transformations. It is important to demonstrate how these transformations could be practically accelerated in a national context and what their combined...
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| author | Cameron Allen Annabel Biddulph Thomas Wiedmann Matteo Pedercini Shirin Malekpour |
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| description | Abstract There is an urgent need to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and recent research has identified six critical transformations. It is important to demonstrate how these transformations could be practically accelerated in a national context and what their combined effects would be. Here we bridge national systems modelling with transformation storylines to provide an analysis of a Six Transformations Pathway for Australia. We explore important policies to accelerate progress, synergies and trade-offs, and conditions that determine policy success. We find that implementing policy packages to accelerate each transformation would boost performance on the SDGs by 2030 (+23% above the baseline). Policymakers can maximize transformation synergies through investments in energy decarbonization, resilience, social protection, and sustainable food systems, while managing trade-offs for income and employment. To overcome resistance to transformations, ambitious policy action will need to be underpinned by technological, social, and political enabling conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25ba2368deab4538b0328e5a6579c86f2024-01-21T12:27:06ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232024-01-0115111610.1038/s41467-023-44655-4Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkagesCameron Allen0Annabel Biddulph1Thomas Wiedmann2Matteo Pedercini3Shirin Malekpour4Sustainability Assessment Program, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW SydneySustainability Assessment Program, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW SydneySustainability Assessment Program, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW SydneyMillennium InstituteMonash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash UniversityAbstract There is an urgent need to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and recent research has identified six critical transformations. It is important to demonstrate how these transformations could be practically accelerated in a national context and what their combined effects would be. Here we bridge national systems modelling with transformation storylines to provide an analysis of a Six Transformations Pathway for Australia. We explore important policies to accelerate progress, synergies and trade-offs, and conditions that determine policy success. We find that implementing policy packages to accelerate each transformation would boost performance on the SDGs by 2030 (+23% above the baseline). Policymakers can maximize transformation synergies through investments in energy decarbonization, resilience, social protection, and sustainable food systems, while managing trade-offs for income and employment. To overcome resistance to transformations, ambitious policy action will need to be underpinned by technological, social, and political enabling conditions.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44655-4 |
| spellingShingle | Cameron Allen Annabel Biddulph Thomas Wiedmann Matteo Pedercini Shirin Malekpour Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages Nature Communications |
| title | Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages |
| title_full | Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages |
| title_fullStr | Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages |
| title_short | Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages |
| title_sort | modelling six sustainable development transformations in australia and their accelerators impediments enablers and interlinkages |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44655-4 |
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