This global research initiative supports a successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The goal of TWI2050 is to provide fact-based knowledge to support the policy process and implementation of the SDGs. TWI2050 aims to address the full spectrum of transformational challenges related to achieving the 17 SDGs in an integrated manner, so as to minimize potential conflicts among them and reap the benefits of potential synergies of achieving them in unison.

TWI2050 was launched by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , the SDSN, and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) . For more information, please contact twi2050@iiasa.ac.at. 

The SDGs set out very clear and ambitious global goals across social, economic, and environmental areas. There are important interactions between and among these goals (for example, between energy and climate, or food security and ecosystems). What is lacking, but urgently required, is an assessment of the viability of achieving these multiple social-economic-environmental-planetary goals simultaneously, using integrative and systemic methodological approaches. This is necessary to answer questions such as:

• How do we meet the hunger, poverty, energy, growth goals while meeting the environmental goals?
• What are the synergies and trade-offs?
• What are the costs of pursuing social goals without meeting sustainability goals and the other way around?