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A peer-reviewed review (Discover Sustainability, 2025, 6:197, open access) arguing that light pollution, although absent from the UN 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, is directly and indirectly tied to their implementation. It maps the trade-offs — implementing the SDGs can both help and hinder efforts to curb light pollution — shows how new lighting technologies can increase the problem as well as solve it, and calls for stringent policy measures and wide public awareness favouring the careful use of artificial light.
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