Implementing the 'Sustainable Development Goals': towards addressing three key governance challenges- collective action, trade-offs, and accountability

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ce:abstract xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" id="abs0005" class="author-highlights" view="all"ce:section-title id="sect0005"Highlights/ce:section-titlece:abstract-sec id="abst0005" view="all"ce:simple-para id="spar0005" view="all"ce:list id="lis0005"ce:list-item id="lsti0005"ce:label?/ce:labelce:para id="par0005" view="all"Three governance challenges to implementing the SDGs are identified and discussed./ce:para/ce:list-itemce:list-item id="lsti0010"ce:label?/ce:labelce:para id="par0010" view="all"Collective action across sectors, levels and scales will be required./ce:para/ce:list-itemce:list-item id="lsti0015"ce:label?/ce:labelce:para id="par0015" view="all"Win–wins may not be possible so tradeoffs must focus on equity, justice and fairness./ce:para/ce:list-itemce:list-item id="lsti0020"ce:label?/ce:labelce:para id="par0020" view="all"Mechanisms are needed to ensure accountability for reaching targets and outcomes./ce:para/ce:list-itemce:list-item id="lsti0025"ce:label?/ce:labelce:para id="par0025" view="all"Challenges influence each other; implementation must take an integrated approach./ce:para/ce:list-item/ce:list/ce:simple-para/ce:abstract-sec/ce:abstractce:abstract xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" id="abs0010" view="all" class="author"ce:abstract-sec id="abst0010" view="all"ce:simple-para id="spar0010" view="all"Realising the aspirations of the “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) to reduce inequality, limit ecological damage, and secure resilient livelihoods is a grand challenge for sustainability science, civil society and government. We identify three key governance challenges that are central for implementing the SDGs: (i) cultivating collective action by creating inclusive decision spaces for stakeholder interaction across multiple sectors and scales; (ii) making difficult trade-offs, focusing on equity, justice and fairness; and (iii) ensuring mechanisms exist to hold societal actors to account regarding decision-making, investment, action, and outcomes. The paper explains each of these three governance challenges, identifying possible avenues for addressing them, and highlights the importance of interlinkages between the three challenges./ce:simple-para/ce:abstract-sec/ce:abstract