AUTHOR=Senger Kim TITLE=Sustainable Development Goals and the Geosciences: A Review JOURNAL=Earth Science, Systems and Society VOLUME=4 YEAR=2024 URL=https://www.escubed.org/journals/earth-science-systems-and-society/articles/10.3389/esss.2024.10124 DOI=10.3389/esss.2024.10124 ISSN=2634-730X ABSTRACT=

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) collectively represent the global population’s ambition to improve the wellbeing of Earth and its inhabitants by 2030. The ambitious goals require that a dedicated, focused, and integrated effort is taken—now. The geoscientific community is well positioned to positively directly influence many of the SDGs, notably SDGs 7 (Affordable Energy), 11 (Sustainable Cities) and 13 (Climate Action), and may also directly or indirectly contribute to all other SDGs. In this contribution, I systematically review the SDGs in the framework of the broader geosciences. Firstly, I outline the concept of the SDGs and their indicators, before linking them to specific geoscientific disciplines illustrated with case studies. Finally, I present some of the ongoing developments in the geosciences that need to be clearly tied to the global SDG ambitions.