Succeeding at home and abroad: accounting for the international spillovers of cities’ SDG actions

Cities are vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), but different local strategies to advance on the same SDG may cause different ‘spillovers’ elsewhere. Research efforts that support governance of such spillovers are urgently needed to empower ambitious cities to ‘account global...

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Published in:npj Urban Sustainability 2021-04, Vol.1 (1), Article 18
Main Authors: Engström, Rebecka Ericsdotter, Collste, David, Cornell, Sarah E., Johnson, Francis X., Carlsen, Henrik, Jaramillo, Fernando, Finnveden, Göran, Destouni, Georgia, Howells, Mark, Weitz, Nina, Palm, Viveka, Fuso-Nerini, Francesco
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Language:English
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4014/4012
704/172/4081
704/844/685
706/689/680
Accounting
Cities
Comment
Earth and Environmental Science
Environment
International
Land use
Sustainable Development
towns
Urban Ecology
Urban Geography
Urbanism
Urbanism (inc. megacities
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Summary:Cities are vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), but different local strategies to advance on the same SDG may cause different ‘spillovers’ elsewhere. Research efforts that support governance of such spillovers are urgently needed to empower ambitious cities to ‘account globally’ when acting locally on SDG implementation strategies.
ISSN:2661-8001
2661-8001
DOI:10.1038/s42949-020-00002-w