Publications by authors named "Anquan Xia"
Differences in progress across sustainable development goals (SDGs) are widespread globally; meanwhile, the rising call for prioritizing specific SDGs may exacerbate such gaps. Nevertheless, how these progress differences would influence global sustainable development has been long neglected. Here, we present the first quantitative assessment of SDGs' progress differences globally by adopting the SDGs progress evenness index.
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- The study emphasizes the importance of achieving all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) evenly rather than focusing on just a few, proposing a method to assess this evenness.
- Despite significant progress in China from 2000 to 2015, a stagnation in some SDGs since 2013 has created a developmental bottleneck.
- The findings highlight that developed provinces in China are lagging in SDG progress, underscoring the need for holistic approaches to sustainable development that promote even progress across all goals.