Collection 

Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Submission status
Open

The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States. To help track where we are on this journey, and to amplify success stories, in this Collection we present studies that assess progress or that showcase interventions that have made a difference. We include articles that focus on at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals, at the local, regional or global scale, and we are pleased to invite submissions of studies framed in a similar way. With a growing overview of where we stand and which measures make a difference, we can generate momentum on a sustainable pathway towards improved human lives and a healthier planet.

Filter by section 

To submit, see the participating journals
An image that echoes the SDG logo and integrates the idea of analysis of data from the various goals.

Magdalena Skipper, Editor in Chief, Nature

Juliane Mössinger, Senior Editor, Nature

Anna Armstrong, Senior Editor, Nature

Sebastian Thuault, Chief Editor, Nature Aging

May Chiao, Chief Editor, Nature Astronomy

William Burnside, Chief Editor, Nature Cities

Tegan Armarego-Marriott, Senior Editor, Nature Climate Change

Steven Lukman, Team Manager and Senior Editor, Nature Communications

Henrietta Howells, Senior Editor, Nature Communications

Kaitlin McCardle, Associate Editor, Nature Computational Science

Simon Harold, Senior Editor, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nicky Dean, Chief Editor, Nature Energy

Juliana Gil, Chief Editor, Nature Food

Tom Richardson, Senior Editor, Nature Geoscience

Charlotte Payne, Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour

Ming Yang, Associate Editor, Nature Medicine

Kyle Frischkorn, Senior Editor, Nature Microbiology

Rinaldo Raccichini, Locum Senior Editor, Nature Nanotechnology

Ashley York, Chief Editor, Nature Reviews Microbiology

Claire Greenhill, Chief Editor, Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Monica Contestabile, Chief Editor, Nature Sustainability

Karin Sjöstrand, Associate Editor, Nature Water

Christina Karlsson Rosenthal, Chief Editor, Communications Biology

Heike Langenberg, Chief Editor, Communications Earth & Environment

Rosamund Daw, Chief Editor, Communications Engineering

Andreia Cunha, Chief Editor, Communications Medicine

Marike Schiffer, Chief Editor, Communications Psychology

Alex Willis, Managing Editor, npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, npj Biodiversity

Spyros Bakas, Managing Editor, npj Clean Water, npj Climate Action

Jialiang Cai, Managing Editor, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, npj Ocean Sustainability

Tillie Cryer, Senior Managing Editor, npj Digital Medicine, npj Mental Health Research

Daniel Payne, Senior Managing Editor, npj Natural Hazards, npj Materials Sustainability

Viki Hurst, Senior Managing Editor, npj Science of Food

Ines Alves, Executive Editor, npj Sustainable Agriculture, npj Viruses

Bo Liu, Executive Editor, npj Urban Sustainability

Nico Fanget, Managing Editor, npj Vaccines

Elizabeth Mann, Deputy Editor, Scientific Reports