this is seen to be necessary in order to devise integrated strategies and policies that foster synergies across different goals and explicitly address tensions and potential tradeoffs among them the editions of the un global sustainable development report published in and adopted the sdgs as an integrated network of goals as their basic framework united nations and a generic network maps of the sdgs were proposed in le blanc systematic lists of relationships among the targets under one sdg and other sdgs have been published for sdg unwater sdg vladimirova and le blanc and similar work is ongoing in other sdg areas icsu forthcoming