Challenge and strategy for the successful application of CCUS-EOR in China

The ultimate goal of sustainable development is to deal with the problems of population, resources, environment, and development, ensuring equal opportunities for development for all countries, regions, and individuals in the world, ensuring the same conditions and opportunities for development for our future generations, and achieving harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Specifically, it includes three core aspects: economic sustainable development, social sustainable development, and environmental sustainable development (Raworth, 2017). In fact, these three aspects are interrelated and inseparable as a whole. On basis of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are new targets set by the United Nations to guide global development efforts from 2015 to 2030. Compared with the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals address the universal need to achieve development and ensure that the benefits of progress are shared by all and therefore have a broader scope and longer-term objectives. Many scholars have conducted a lot of useful research on SDG. Based on the complicated relations among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, by reviewing the existing literature, Wang and Li (2021) point out that synergy and trade-off are the main concepts to analyze the relationship between goals. They analyze from the epistemological level, define the relationship types between goals accurately, and perfect the analytical framework of sustainability science, which is conducive to successfully implementing the sustainable development strategy. Starting from the evolution of sustainable development goals, design principles, and concepts to challenges and opportunities, Xian et al. (2021) analyze the implementation of sustainable development goals in China by combing the relationship between sustainable development goals and China’s existing development strategies and find out the shortcomings. At the same time, they put forward corresponding policy recommendations for China to further implement the sustainable development goals. Zhang et al. (2019) briefly review the transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals. Then, based on the comprehensive analysis of the existing literature, they summarize the research progress of the relationship among the 17 sustainable development goals and outline the shortcomings and future challenges of the current research. Finally, three implications of the current research for the implementation of China’s future sustainable development goals are analyzed. Feng et al. (2021) carry out research on how to promote the implementation of global SDGs in the post-epidemic era. By extracting information from policy documents such as the Sustainable Development Assessment Report (2019) and the Accelerated Action on Sustainable Development Goals, an index model is established, and countries are divided into nine categories according to 17 sustainable development goals, which provides support for accelerating action on global sustainable development goals. Research is conducive to achieving the 17 sustainable development goals by 2030.