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Dr. Guido Schmidt-Traub is Executive Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which supports the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. He is a core partner of the Food and Land-Use Coalition and serves as a Board member of Water Aid, Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Europe, and Associate Adjunct Professor at Sunway University. Guido is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Nature-Based Solutions. Previously he was CEO of Paris-based CDC Climat Asset Management, Partner at South Pole Carbon Asset Management, and climate change advisor to the Africa Progress Panel. He has led the UNDP MDG Support Team and was Associate Director of the UN Millennium Project in New York.

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Journal article
Published: 17 December 2020 in Resources, Environment and Sustainability
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The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening food shortages in food deficit countries, such as China, which rely on import for domestic food consumption. We argue that fundamental revolution in China’s livestock system can meet about 50% of its consumption of livestock products and thereby reduce the country’s reliance on imports. Three food system revolutions that can greatly reduce China’s reliance on imports are technically and economically feasible, and generate high eco-system benefits: (1) organic or inorganic based microbial feed protein production to substitute imported feed protein, (2) vegetation greening and fodder production through grassland restoration to reduce import of ruminant animal products, and (3) insect protein based fish-plant production and offshore marine restoration to replace red meat consumption and increase recycling of manure. Together these revolutions can accelerate progress towards multiple Sustainable Development Goals in exporting countries.

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Zhaohai Bai; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Jianchu Xu; Ling Liu; Xinpeng Jin; Lin Ma. A food system revolution for China in the post-pandemic world. Resources, Environment and Sustainability 2020, 2, 100013 .

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Zhaohai Bai, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Jianchu Xu, Ling Liu, Xinpeng Jin, Lin Ma. A food system revolution for China in the post-pandemic world. Resources, Environment and Sustainability. 2020; 2 ():100013.

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Zhaohai Bai; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Jianchu Xu; Ling Liu; Xinpeng Jin; Lin Ma. 2020. "A food system revolution for China in the post-pandemic world." Resources, Environment and Sustainability 2, no. : 100013.

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Published: 09 November 2020
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Sustaining the organisms, ecosystems, and processes that underpin human well-being is necessary to achieve sustainable development. Here we analyze 12 of nature’s contributions to people (NCP) for food, water, and climate security. Using spatial optimization, we identify critical natural assets, the most important ecosystems for providing NCP, comprising 39% of total global land area and 24% of national territorial waters. Many of these NCP are overlooked by international agreements focused on conserving species or mitigating climate change, yet our analysis shows that explicitly prioritizing critical natural assets jointly advances development, climate, and conservation goals. Developing policy and investment strategies that protect critical natural assets is essential for securing Earth’s life support systems.One Sentence SummaryGlobal optimization shows 39% of land and 24% of ocean area contains 90% of current levels of provision for 12 of nature’s contributions to people.

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Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Rachel A Neugarten; Richard P Sharp; Pamela M Collins; Stephen Polasky; David Hole; Richard Schuster; Matthew Strimas-Mackey; Mark Mulligan; Carter Brandon; Sandra Diaz; Etienne Fluet-Chouinard; Larry Gorenflo; Justin A Johnson; Patrick W Keys; Kate Longley-Wood; Peter B McIntyre; Monica Noon; Unai Pascual; Catherine Reidy Liermann; Patrick R Roehrdanz; Guido Schmidt-Traub; M. Rebecca Shaw; Mark Spalding; Will R Turner; Arnout Van Soesbergen; Reg A Watson. Global critical natural assets. 2020, 1 .

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Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Rachel A Neugarten, Richard P Sharp, Pamela M Collins, Stephen Polasky, David Hole, Richard Schuster, Matthew Strimas-Mackey, Mark Mulligan, Carter Brandon, Sandra Diaz, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Larry Gorenflo, Justin A Johnson, Patrick W Keys, Kate Longley-Wood, Peter B McIntyre, Monica Noon, Unai Pascual, Catherine Reidy Liermann, Patrick R Roehrdanz, Guido Schmidt-Traub, M. Rebecca Shaw, Mark Spalding, Will R Turner, Arnout Van Soesbergen, Reg A Watson. Global critical natural assets. . 2020; ():1.

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Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Rachel A Neugarten; Richard P Sharp; Pamela M Collins; Stephen Polasky; David Hole; Richard Schuster; Matthew Strimas-Mackey; Mark Mulligan; Carter Brandon; Sandra Diaz; Etienne Fluet-Chouinard; Larry Gorenflo; Justin A Johnson; Patrick W Keys; Kate Longley-Wood; Peter B McIntyre; Monica Noon; Unai Pascual; Catherine Reidy Liermann; Patrick R Roehrdanz; Guido Schmidt-Traub; M. Rebecca Shaw; Mark Spalding; Will R Turner; Arnout Van Soesbergen; Reg A Watson. 2020. "Global critical natural assets." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 17 September 2020 in Sustainability
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Evidence-based policymaking must be rooted in sound data to inform policy priorities, budget allocations, and tracking of progress. This is especially true in the case of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as they provide the policy framework that all 193 UN member states have pledged to achieve by 2030. Good data and clear metrics are critical for each country to take stock of where it stands, devise pathways for achieving the goals, and track progress. Current assessments of the EU’s performance on the SDGs, however, tend to reach different findings and policy conclusions on where the priorities for further action lie, which can be confusing for researchers and policymakers. In order to demystify the drivers of such differences and make them transparent, this paper compares and contrasts the results obtained by four SDG monitoring approaches. We identify three main elements that are responsible for most of the differences: (i) the use of pre-defined targets for calculating baseline assessments and countries’ trajectories; (ii) the inclusion of measures that track not only domestic performance, but also the EU’s transboundary impacts on the rest of the world; and (iii) the use of non-official statistics to bridge data gaps, especially for biodiversity goals. This paper concludes that there is not one “correct” way of providing an assessment of whether the EU and EU member states are on track to achieve the goals, but we illustrate how the different results are the outcomes of certain methodological choices. More “forward-looking” policy trackers are needed to assess implementation efforts on key SDG transformations.

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Guillaume Lafortune; Grayson Fuller; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Christian Kroll. How Is Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals Measured? Comparing Four Approaches for the EU. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7675 .

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Guillaume Lafortune, Grayson Fuller, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Christian Kroll. How Is Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals Measured? Comparing Four Approaches for the EU. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7675.

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Guillaume Lafortune; Grayson Fuller; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Christian Kroll. 2020. "How Is Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals Measured? Comparing Four Approaches for the EU." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7675.

Journal article
Published: 10 September 2020 in Nature
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Increased efforts are required to prevent further losses to terrestrial biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides1,2. Ambitious targets have been proposed, such as reversing the declining trends in biodiversity3; however, just feeding the growing human population will make this a challenge4. Here we use an ensemble of land-use and biodiversity models to assess whether—and how—humanity can reverse the declines in terrestrial biodiversity caused by habitat conversion, which is a major threat to biodiversity5. We show that immediate efforts, consistent with the broader sustainability agenda but of unprecedented ambition and coordination, could enable the provision of food for the growing human population while reversing the global terrestrial biodiversity trends caused by habitat conversion. If we decide to increase the extent of land under conservation management, restore degraded land and generalize landscape-level conservation planning, biodiversity trends from habitat conversion could become positive by the mid-twenty-first century on average across models (confidence interval, 2042–2061), but this was not the case for all models. Food prices could increase and, on average across models, almost half (confidence interval, 34–50%) of the future biodiversity losses could not be avoided. However, additionally tackling the drivers of land-use change could avoid conflict with affordable food provision and reduces the environmental effects of the food-provision system. Through further sustainable intensification and trade, reduced food waste and more plant-based human diets, more than two thirds of future biodiversity losses are avoided and the biodiversity trends from habitat conversion are reversed by 2050 for almost all of the models. Although limiting further loss will remain challenging in several biodiversity-rich regions, and other threats—such as climate change—must be addressed to truly reverse the declines in biodiversity, our results show that ambitious conservation efforts and food system transformation are central to an effective post-2020 biodiversity strategy. To promote the recovery of the currently declining global trends in terrestrial biodiversity, increases in both the extent of land under conservation management and the sustainability of the global food system from farm to fork are required.

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David Leclère; Michael Obersteiner; Mike Barrett; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Abhishek Chaudhary; Adriana De Palma; Fabrice A. J. DeClerck; Moreno Di Marco; Jonathan C. Doelman; Martina Dürauer; Robin Freeman; Michael Harfoot; Tomoko Hasegawa; Stefanie Hellweg; Jelle P. Hilbers; Samantha L. L. Hill; Florian Humpenöder; Nancy Jennings; Tamás Krisztin; Georgina M. Mace; Haruka Ohashi; Alexander Popp; Andy Purvis; Aafke M. Schipper; Andrzej Tabeau; Hugo Valin; Hans van Meijl; Willem-Jan van Zeist; Piero Visconti; Rob Alkemade; Rosamunde Almond; Gill Bunting; Neil D. Burgess; Sarah E. Cornell; Fulvio Di Fulvio; Simon Ferrier; Steffen Fritz; Shinichiro Fujimori; Monique Grooten; Thomas Harwood; Petr Havlík; Mario Herrero; Andrew J. Hoskins; Martin Jung; Tom Kram; Hermann Lotze-Campen; Tetsuya Matsui; Carsten Meyer; Deon Nel; Tim Newbold; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Elke Stehfest; Bernardo B. N. Strassburg; Detlef P. Van Vuuren; Chris Ware; James E. M. Watson; Wenchao Wu; Lucy Young. Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature 2020, 1 -6.

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David Leclère, Michael Obersteiner, Mike Barrett, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Abhishek Chaudhary, Adriana De Palma, Fabrice A. J. DeClerck, Moreno Di Marco, Jonathan C. Doelman, Martina Dürauer, Robin Freeman, Michael Harfoot, Tomoko Hasegawa, Stefanie Hellweg, Jelle P. Hilbers, Samantha L. L. Hill, Florian Humpenöder, Nancy Jennings, Tamás Krisztin, Georgina M. Mace, Haruka Ohashi, Alexander Popp, Andy Purvis, Aafke M. Schipper, Andrzej Tabeau, Hugo Valin, Hans van Meijl, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Piero Visconti, Rob Alkemade, Rosamunde Almond, Gill Bunting, Neil D. Burgess, Sarah E. Cornell, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Simon Ferrier, Steffen Fritz, Shinichiro Fujimori, Monique Grooten, Thomas Harwood, Petr Havlík, Mario Herrero, Andrew J. Hoskins, Martin Jung, Tom Kram, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Tetsuya Matsui, Carsten Meyer, Deon Nel, Tim Newbold, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Elke Stehfest, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Detlef P. Van Vuuren, Chris Ware, James E. M. Watson, Wenchao Wu, Lucy Young. Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature. 2020; ():1-6.

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David Leclère; Michael Obersteiner; Mike Barrett; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Abhishek Chaudhary; Adriana De Palma; Fabrice A. J. DeClerck; Moreno Di Marco; Jonathan C. Doelman; Martina Dürauer; Robin Freeman; Michael Harfoot; Tomoko Hasegawa; Stefanie Hellweg; Jelle P. Hilbers; Samantha L. L. Hill; Florian Humpenöder; Nancy Jennings; Tamás Krisztin; Georgina M. Mace; Haruka Ohashi; Alexander Popp; Andy Purvis; Aafke M. Schipper; Andrzej Tabeau; Hugo Valin; Hans van Meijl; Willem-Jan van Zeist; Piero Visconti; Rob Alkemade; Rosamunde Almond; Gill Bunting; Neil D. Burgess; Sarah E. Cornell; Fulvio Di Fulvio; Simon Ferrier; Steffen Fritz; Shinichiro Fujimori; Monique Grooten; Thomas Harwood; Petr Havlík; Mario Herrero; Andrew J. Hoskins; Martin Jung; Tom Kram; Hermann Lotze-Campen; Tetsuya Matsui; Carsten Meyer; Deon Nel; Tim Newbold; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Elke Stehfest; Bernardo B. N. Strassburg; Detlef P. Van Vuuren; Chris Ware; James E. M. Watson; Wenchao Wu; Lucy Young. 2020. "Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy." Nature , no. : 1-6.

Accepted manuscript
Published: 23 June 2020 in National Science Review
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Ahead of landmark biodiversity and climate conferences in 2021, China's policy innovations in land-use planning and the Ecological Conservation Redline offer lessons for other countries in developing integrated strategies on climate, biodiversity, and desertification. Spatial planning is also critical for greening international supply chains and the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Guido Schmidt-Traub; Harvey Locke; Jixi Gao; Zhiyun Ouyang; Justin Adams; Lin Li; Enric Sala; M Rebecca Shaw; Sebastian Troëng; Jing Xu; Chunquan Zhu; Changxin Zou; Tianxiao Ma; Fuwen Wei. Integrating climate, biodiversity, and sustainable land-use strategies: innovations from China. National Science Review 2020, 8, 1 .

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Guido Schmidt-Traub, Harvey Locke, Jixi Gao, Zhiyun Ouyang, Justin Adams, Lin Li, Enric Sala, M Rebecca Shaw, Sebastian Troëng, Jing Xu, Chunquan Zhu, Changxin Zou, Tianxiao Ma, Fuwen Wei. Integrating climate, biodiversity, and sustainable land-use strategies: innovations from China. National Science Review. 2020; 8 (7):1.

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Guido Schmidt-Traub; Harvey Locke; Jixi Gao; Zhiyun Ouyang; Justin Adams; Lin Li; Enric Sala; M Rebecca Shaw; Sebastian Troëng; Jing Xu; Chunquan Zhu; Changxin Zou; Tianxiao Ma; Fuwen Wei. 2020. "Integrating climate, biodiversity, and sustainable land-use strategies: innovations from China." National Science Review 8, no. 7: 1.

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Published: 16 April 2020
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Summary paragraphTo meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, countries and the international community require clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially, and multiple targets be pursued concurrently1. To support governments and political conventions, spatial guidance is needed to identify which areas should be managed for conservation to generate the greatest synergies between biodiversity and nature’s contribution to people (NCP). Here we present results from a joint optimization that maximizes improvements in species conservation status, carbon retention and water provisioning and rank terrestrial conservation priorities globally. We found that, selecting the top-ranked 30% (respectively 50%) of areas would conserve 62.4% (86.8%) of the estimated total carbon stock and 67.8% (90.7%) of all clean water provisioning, in addition to improving the conservation status for 69.7% (83.8%) of all species considered. If priority was given to biodiversity only, managing 30% of optimally located land area for conservation may be sufficient to improve the conservation status of 86.3% of plant and vertebrate species on Earth. Our results provide a global baseline on where land could be managed for conservation. We discuss how such a spatial prioritisation framework can support the implementation of the biodiversity and climate conventions.

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Martin Jung; Andy Arnell; Xavier De Lamo; Shaenandhoa García-Rangel; Matthew Lewis; Jennifer Mark; Cory Merow; Lera Miles; Ian Ondo; Samuel Pironon; Corinna Ravilious; Malin Rivers; Dmitry Schepashenko; Oliver Tallowin; Arnout Van Soesbergen; Rafaël Govaerts; Bradley L. Boyle; Brian J. Enquist; Xiao Feng; Rachael V. Gallagher; Brian Maitner; Shai Meiri; Mark Mulligan; Gali Ofer; Jeffrey Owen Hanson; Walter Jetz; Moreno Di Marco; Jennifer McGowan; D. Scott Rinnan; Jeffrey D. Sachs; Myroslava Lesiv; Vanessa M Adams; Samuel C. Andrew; Joseph R. Burger; Lee Hannah; Pablo A. Marquet; James K. McCarthy; Naia Morueta-Holme; Erica A. Newman; Daniel S. Park; Patrick R. Roehrdanz; Jens-Christian Svenning; Cyrille Violle; Jan J. Wieringa; Graham Wynne; Steffen Fritz; Bernardo B.N. Strassburg; Michael Obersteiner; Valerie Kapos; Neil D Burgess; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Piero Visconti. Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water. 2020, 1 .

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Martin Jung, Andy Arnell, Xavier De Lamo, Shaenandhoa García-Rangel, Matthew Lewis, Jennifer Mark, Cory Merow, Lera Miles, Ian Ondo, Samuel Pironon, Corinna Ravilious, Malin Rivers, Dmitry Schepashenko, Oliver Tallowin, Arnout Van Soesbergen, Rafaël Govaerts, Bradley L. Boyle, Brian J. Enquist, Xiao Feng, Rachael V. Gallagher, Brian Maitner, Shai Meiri, Mark Mulligan, Gali Ofer, Jeffrey Owen Hanson, Walter Jetz, Moreno Di Marco, Jennifer McGowan, D. Scott Rinnan, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Myroslava Lesiv, Vanessa M Adams, Samuel C. Andrew, Joseph R. Burger, Lee Hannah, Pablo A. Marquet, James K. McCarthy, Naia Morueta-Holme, Erica A. Newman, Daniel S. Park, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Jens-Christian Svenning, Cyrille Violle, Jan J. Wieringa, Graham Wynne, Steffen Fritz, Bernardo B.N. Strassburg, Michael Obersteiner, Valerie Kapos, Neil D Burgess, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Piero Visconti. Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water. . 2020; ():1.

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Martin Jung; Andy Arnell; Xavier De Lamo; Shaenandhoa García-Rangel; Matthew Lewis; Jennifer Mark; Cory Merow; Lera Miles; Ian Ondo; Samuel Pironon; Corinna Ravilious; Malin Rivers; Dmitry Schepashenko; Oliver Tallowin; Arnout Van Soesbergen; Rafaël Govaerts; Bradley L. Boyle; Brian J. Enquist; Xiao Feng; Rachael V. Gallagher; Brian Maitner; Shai Meiri; Mark Mulligan; Gali Ofer; Jeffrey Owen Hanson; Walter Jetz; Moreno Di Marco; Jennifer McGowan; D. Scott Rinnan; Jeffrey D. Sachs; Myroslava Lesiv; Vanessa M Adams; Samuel C. Andrew; Joseph R. Burger; Lee Hannah; Pablo A. Marquet; James K. McCarthy; Naia Morueta-Holme; Erica A. Newman; Daniel S. Park; Patrick R. Roehrdanz; Jens-Christian Svenning; Cyrille Violle; Jan J. Wieringa; Graham Wynne; Steffen Fritz; Bernardo B.N. Strassburg; Michael Obersteiner; Valerie Kapos; Neil D Burgess; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Piero Visconti. 2020. "Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 27 January 2020 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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Integrated high-resolution maps of carbon stocks and biodiversity that identify areas of potential co-benefits for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation can help facilitate the implementation of global climate and biodiversity commitments at local levels. However, the multi-dimensional nature of biodiversity presents a major challenge for understanding, mapping and communicating where and how biodiversity benefits coincide with climate benefits. A new integrated approach to biodiversity is therefore needed. Here, we (a) present a new high-resolution map of global above- and below-ground carbon stored in biomass and soil, (b) quantify biodiversity values using two complementary indices (BIp and BIr) representing proactive and reactive approaches to conservation, and (c) examine patterns of carbon–biodiversity overlap by identifying 'hotspots' (20% highest values for both aspects). Our indices integrate local diversity and ecosystem intactness, as well as regional ecosystem intactness across the broader area supporting a similar natural assemblage of species to the location of interest. The western Amazon Basin, Central Africa and Southeast Asia capture the last strongholds of highest local biodiversity and ecosystem intactness worldwide, while the last refuges for unique biological communities whose habitats have been greatly reduced are mostly found in the tropical Andes and central Sundaland. There is 38 and 5% overlap in carbon and biodiversity hotspots, for proactive and reactive conservation, respectively. Alarmingly, only around 12 and 21% of these proactive and reactive hotspot areas, respectively, are formally protected. This highlights that a coupled approach is urgently needed to help achieve both climate and biodiversity global targets. This would involve (1) restoring and conserving unprotected, degraded ecosystems, particularly in the Neotropics and Indomalaya, and (2) retaining the remaining strongholds of intactness. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’.

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C. Soto-Navarro; C. Ravilious; A. Arnell; X. de Lamo; M. Harfoot; S. L. L. Hill; O. R. Wearn; M. Santoro; A. Bouvet; S. Mermoz; T. Le Toan; J. Xia; S. Liu; W. Yuan; S. A. Spawn; H. K. Gibbs; S. Ferrier; T. Harwood; R. Alkemade; A. M. Schipper; G. Schmidt-Traub; B. Strassburg; L. Miles; N. D. Burgess; V. Kapos. Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2020, 375, 20190128 .

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C. Soto-Navarro, C. Ravilious, A. Arnell, X. de Lamo, M. Harfoot, S. L. L. Hill, O. R. Wearn, M. Santoro, A. Bouvet, S. Mermoz, T. Le Toan, J. Xia, S. Liu, W. Yuan, S. A. Spawn, H. K. Gibbs, S. Ferrier, T. Harwood, R. Alkemade, A. M. Schipper, G. Schmidt-Traub, B. Strassburg, L. Miles, N. D. Burgess, V. Kapos. Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2020; 375 (1794):20190128.

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C. Soto-Navarro; C. Ravilious; A. Arnell; X. de Lamo; M. Harfoot; S. L. L. Hill; O. R. Wearn; M. Santoro; A. Bouvet; S. Mermoz; T. Le Toan; J. Xia; S. Liu; W. Yuan; S. A. Spawn; H. K. Gibbs; S. Ferrier; T. Harwood; R. Alkemade; A. M. Schipper; G. Schmidt-Traub; B. Strassburg; L. Miles; N. D. Burgess; V. Kapos. 2020. "Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1794: 20190128.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
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Guido Schmidt-Traub. The urgency of Agriculture Green Development. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 2020, 7, 108 .

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Guido Schmidt-Traub. The urgency of Agriculture Green Development. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 2020; 7 (1):108.

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Guido Schmidt-Traub. 2020. "The urgency of Agriculture Green Development." Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 7, no. 1: 108.

Perspective
Published: 26 August 2019 in Nature Sustainability
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change call for deep transformations in every country that will require complementary actions by governments, civil society, science and business. Yet stakeholders lack a shared understanding of how the 17 SDGs can be operationalized. Drawing on earlier work by The World in 2050 initiative, we introduce six SDG Transformations as modular building-blocks of SDG achievement: (1) education, gender and inequality; (2) health, well-being and demography; (3) energy decarbonization and sustainable industry; (4) sustainable food, land, water and oceans; (5) sustainable cities and communities; and (6) digital revolution for sustainable development. Each Transformation identifies priority investments and regulatory challenges, calling for actions by well-defined parts of government working with business and civil society. Transformations may therefore be operationalized within the structures of government while respecting the strong interdependencies across the 17 SDGs. We also outline an action agenda for science to provide the knowledge required for designing, implementing and monitoring the SDG Transformations.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Mariana Mazzucato; Dirk Messner; Nebojsa Nakicenovic; Johan Rockström. Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability 2019, 2, 805 -814.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Mariana Mazzucato, Dirk Messner, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Johan Rockström. Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability. 2019; 2 (9):805-814.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Mariana Mazzucato; Dirk Messner; Nebojsa Nakicenovic; Johan Rockström. 2019. "Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals." Nature Sustainability 2, no. 9: 805-814.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of Ecology
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved in September 2015 by the 193 UN Member States and are also known as Agenda 2030. The framework consists of 17 goals for environmental sustainability, social inclusion, economic development, peace, justice, good governance and partnership, the main issues for the world population in the 21st century. Each goal has several targets that better define its aims. The total number of targets is 169. The SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which expired in 2015 and were implemented over 15 years. The MDG experience underscored the importance of updated datasets for achieving the goals. Indicators are the backbone for monitoring progress towards the SDGs at local, national, regional, and global levels. Sound indicators can make the SDGs and their targets an instrument that helps countries highlight their strengths and weaknesses and monitor their progress after implementation of policies. Goals and targets are interdependent and must be pursued together as far as possible.

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Massimo Gigliotti; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Simone Bastianoni. The Sustainable Development Goals. Encyclopedia of Ecology 2019, 426 -431.

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Massimo Gigliotti, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Simone Bastianoni. The Sustainable Development Goals. Encyclopedia of Ecology. 2019; ():426-431.

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Massimo Gigliotti; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Simone Bastianoni. 2019. "The Sustainable Development Goals." Encyclopedia of Ecology , no. : 426-431.

Journal article
Published: 17 July 2017 in Nature Geoscience
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Guido Schmidt-Traub; Christian Kroll; Katerina Teksoz; David Durand-Delacre; Jeffrey D. Sachs. National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards. Nature Geoscience 2017, 10, 547 -555.

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Guido Schmidt-Traub, Christian Kroll, Katerina Teksoz, David Durand-Delacre, Jeffrey D. Sachs. National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards. Nature Geoscience. 2017; 10 (8):547-555.

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Guido Schmidt-Traub; Christian Kroll; Katerina Teksoz; David Durand-Delacre; Jeffrey D. Sachs. 2017. "National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards." Nature Geoscience 10, no. 8: 547-555.

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Published: 06 April 2017 in Science
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria (GF) was launched in 2001 in the context of the AIDS pandemic and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Thanks in large part to key design principles (DPs), the GF public-private partnership has played a major role in advancing public health science and in scaling up and strengthening evidence-based public health efforts in developing countries. As world leaders prepare to advance international development finance at the July 2017 Group of 20 (G20) Summit, we suggest the GF as a template for funding research, development, and scale-up of interventions in both health and nonhealth areas of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which replaced MDGs in 2016.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs; Guido Schmidt-Traub. Global Fund lessons for Sustainable Development Goals. Science 2017, 356, 32 -33.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido Schmidt-Traub. Global Fund lessons for Sustainable Development Goals. Science. 2017; 356 (6333):32-33.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs; Guido Schmidt-Traub. 2017. "Global Fund lessons for Sustainable Development Goals." Science 356, no. 6333: 32-33.