Consumption is the bottleneck for sustainable development

From ending poverty to improving wellbeing, gender equality, cities’ resilience or climate action — while synergies among most of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) foster progress in sustainable development, there are some key conflicts or bottlenecks that could hamper achieving the SDG objectives for 2030. Responsible consumption and production seems to be such a bottleneck, as data from the past shows.