7.1.13 (HL)—SDGs and resource management

The Sustainable Development Goals provide a shared global-partnership framework linking social, economic and environmental action on natural-resource use and management.

For example, SDG 6 can frame water access and ecosystem protection, while SDG 12 can frame efficient resource use, waste prevention and circular production; assess interactions with other goals rather than treating labels as proof.

A water project can improve access while increasing energy demand or displacing habitats, so indicators and trade-offs across goals must be monitored.

Use an SDG to coordinate actors, targets and indicators; verify actual resource outcomes and equity.

An SDG label is not an outcome measurement.