  We interact with each other and our environment in rich and complex ways.
These interactions form socioecological systems in which human, economic, or
natural resources are used and replenished. In 2015, the United Nations set
seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) to attempt to change the way we
live and create by 2030 a sustainable future balancing equitable prosperity
within planetary boundaries. We have tended to tackle SDGs in isolation and now
we realise that a key hurdle to SDG implementation are conflicts arising from
SDG interactions. We estimate here for the first time the sustainome, a global
picture of those interactions, and determine the main hurdles to maximising SDG
implementation. We show that the relative contribution of SDGs to global
sustainable success differ by country income. SDG conflicts within the
sustainome mean that we must find new ways to address the impacts of climate
change, approaches to reducing inequalities and responsible consumption.
Focussing on poverty alleviation and reducing inequalities will also have
compounded positive effects on the sustainome. This network approach to
sustainability provides a way to prioritise SDG and contextualise targets.
