Conclusion The debates on the future of the 2030 Agenda are
clear signs of the interest shown in the SDG framework
as a key incentive for continuing discussions between researchers and policy-makers on the directions for sustainable development paths. Given the mixed results
on the achievement of the SDGs, there is a legitimate need to pursue the fruitful discussions between researchers and policy-makers on the framework for action.
Among the potential avenues to be explored, we
have presented five that would help steer the SDGs back
on track: step up research efforts to define environmental indicators at the global level and engage in a discussions on the environmental thresholds to be set at the local
level; identify synergies and tensions between goals to promote trade-offs and work concretely on SDG interactions with a focus on specific nexuses; work on interactions by building sustainable development trajectories based on
limited number of key variables; reconcile the 2030, 2050
and longer-term time horizons by updating the indicators as and when research and diplomacy make progress, but also by thinking as of now about the goals for 2050.
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