sustainable development result from perceived trade-offs between socioeconomic development and global environmental sustainability, for example between energy use and climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions or land-use change for food production and biodiversity loss.
In these cases, addressing socioeconomic and environmental sustainability targets independently will lead to undesired and long-term costly outcomes (UNEP 2013).
Socioeconomic goals may be met in the short term but damage long-term sustainability. Alternatively, blind attention to environmental targets may distract from socioeconomic development.
Our approach is to identify targets, which focus on the interdependencies between two or more issues so that they are tackled in an integrated way, delivering the desired outcomes for both.