eprintid: 14567 rev_number: 24 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/45/67 datestamp: 2017-05-08 07:22:35 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:28:54 status_changed: 2017-05-08 07:22:35 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: McCollum, D. creators_name: Gomez Echeverri, L. creators_name: Busch, S. creators_name: Pachauri, S. creators_name: Parkinson, S. creators_name: Rogelj, J. creators_name: Krey, V. creators_name: Riahi, K. creators_name: Nilsson, M. creators_name: Stevance, A.-S. creators_id: 8484 creators_id: 1897 creators_id: 8666 creators_id: 1816 creators_id: 2028 creators_id: 8630 creators_id: 8099 creators_id: 1696 creators_orcid: 0000-0001-8138-3178 creators_orcid: 0000-0002-4753-5198 creators_orcid: 0000-0003-2056-9061 creators_orcid: 0000-0003-0307-3515 creators_orcid: 0000-0001-7193-3498 corp_creators: Pavel Kabat, Director General/CEO, IIASA title: Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals by their energy inter-linkages ispublished: pub divisions: prog_ene divisions: prog_tnt abstract: The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals provide guide-posts to society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges is energy; thus, the SDGs have become paramount for energy policy-making. Yet, while governments throughout the world have already declared the SDGs to be “integrated and indivisible”, there are still knowledge gaps around how the interactions between the energy SDG targets and those of the non-energy-focused SDGs might play out in different contexts. In this Perspective, we report on a systematic assessment of the relevant energy literature, which we conducted to better our understanding of key energy-related interactions between SDGs. Our analysis indicates, first, that positive interactions between the SDGs outweigh the negative ones, both in number and magnitude. Second, of relevance for the scientific community, in order to fill knowledge gaps in critical areas, there is an urgent need for inter-disciplinary research geared toward developing new data, scientific tools, and fresh perspectives. Third, of relevance for policy-making, wider efforts to promote policy coherence and integrated assessments are required to address potential policy spillovers across sectors, sustainability domains, and geographic and temporal boundaries. ‘Doing energy right’ is fundamental to the success of the SDGs, and energy scientists have a major role to play in offering guidance to the discourse. date: 2017-05-06 date_type: published publisher: WP-17-006 creators_browse_id: 203 creators_browse_id: 106 creators_browse_id: 47 creators_browse_id: 222 creators_browse_id: 225 creators_browse_id: 254 creators_browse_id: 166 creators_browse_id: 250 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria projects: Linking Climate and Development Policies - Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing (CD-LINKS, H2020 642147) coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: yes fp7_project_id: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/642147/EU/Linking Climate and Development Policies - Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing/CD-LINKS fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess citation: McCollum, D. , Gomez Echeverri, L. , Busch, S. , Pachauri, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-3178 , Parkinson, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4753-5198 , Rogelj, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2056-9061 , Krey, V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0307-3515 , Riahi, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7193-3498 , et al. (2017). Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals by their energy inter-linkages. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-17-006 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14567/1/WP-17-006.pdf