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Sharing economy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Karobliene and Pilinkiene (2021) claims in their research that the sharing economy encourages
economic growth, entrepreneurship, and job creation, contributes to the GDP and impacts other
economic criteria associated with sustainable development, so the sharing economy has a
relationship with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The results of their research support

previous studies stating that the sharing economy is stronger in high-income countries and
contributes more to their SDGs and that the sharing economy is significant in economically and
digitally developed small countries ,for example, Estonia, Malta, and Luxembourg.
If we focus on the principles of the shared economy, we can state that they are in line with the

SDGs of the UN Development Program for the next 15 years (2015-2030), namely SDGs 12
(ensure sustainable consumption and production) and SDGs 17 (revitalize the global partnership
for sustainable development and strengthen the means for its implementation). Cotrim (2020)
cites, for example, Uber's services aimed at mitigating the overproduction of cars, or the Airbnb
platform, which offers room and apartment sharing and has contributed to the rationalization of
the construction sector of new residential buildings, as examples of good practice supporting 12
SDGs. Mi and Coffman (2019) also report positive environmental impacts of the sharing economy

by reducing pollutants, emissions and hydrocarbons. As an example of good practice, he cites
bicycle sharing, specifically in Shanghai, where carbon dioxide emissions were reduced by 25
000 tons and nitrogen oxide by 64 tons.

Sharing economy platforms also have the potential to create a means to implement more
sustainable practices and thus contribute to the revival of a true global partnership for sustainable
development (SDG 17). An example of good practice is also the Handbook for the development,
monitoring and evaluation of the mobility plan, created by the Nadace Partnerství, which provides
inspiring mobility solutions for employees of public institutions responsible for mobility and
transport issues, mobility experts, managers, but also a wide public

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