Cited by 334Human Rights and DevelopmentLegal, Health, Environmental and COVID-19 ChallengesCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

COVID-19 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Threat to Solidarity or an Opportunity?

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Leal Filho, Walter, Brandli, Luciana Londero, Lange Salvia, Amanda, Rayman-Bacchus, Lez, Platje, Johannes·2020·Sustainability

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COVID-19, as a pandemic, is impacting institutions around the world. Its scope and economic dimensions also mean that it poses a major threat towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article discusses how the coronavirus pandemic may influence the SDGs and could affect their implementation. The methods used entail an analysis of the literature, observations and an assessment of current world trends. The results obtained point out that, while COVID-19 has become a priority to many health systems in developing nations, they still need to attend to many other existing diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and others. Further, the study shows that strong concerns in dealing with COVID-19 are disrupting other disease prevention programs. As a result, problems such as mental health are also likely to be overlooked, since the isolation of social distancing may mask or lead to an increase in the percentage of suffers. The paper suggests that, due to its wide scope and areas of influence, COVID-19 may also jeopardize the process of the implementation of the SDGs. It sends a cautious warning about the need to continue to put an emphasis on the implementation of the SDGs, so that the progress achieved to date is not endangered.

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  • The war may jeopardize the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, notably SDG 1, SDG 2, and SDG 12.

    “the war may jeopardize the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably SDG 1 (No poverty), SDG 2 (Zero hunger), and DG 12 (Responsible consumption and production).”

    From Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War on Global Food Security: Towards More Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems? (2022) · cites this paper as [55]

    The Findings and Discussion section says COVID-19 may endanger implementation of the SDGs and identifies impacts on SDG 1 and SDG 2. The cited paper addresses the pandemic, not the war in the citing sentence, and the passages do not establish a threat to SDG 12. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  1. Taylor, S. The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease; Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2019.

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Authors
Leal Filho, W., Brandli, L. L., Lange Salvia, A., Rayman-Bacchus, L., & Platje, J.
Affiliations
  • European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Ulmenliet 20, D-21033 Hamburg, Germany
  • Universidade de Passo Fundo (BR)
  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEAR), Postgraduate Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (PPGEng), University of Passo Fundo (UPF), Passo Fundo 99052900, Brazil
  • The Business School, University of Winchester, Winchester SO22 5HT, UK
  • Faculty of Finance and Management, WSB University in Wrocław, ul. Fabryczna 29-31, 53-609 Wrocław, Poland
Corresponding author
Brandli, Luciana Londero
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-07-01
Volume
12
Issue
13
Pages
5343
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3040103802
Cited by
334
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 84 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 19
FWCI
88.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Human Rights and Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Legal, Health, Environmental and COVID-19 Challenges
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, Sustainable Development Goals, SDG implementation, international solidarity, disease prevention programs, mental health, social distancing, malaria, yellow fever

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