scholarly journals New Trends in Scientific and Technological revolution (STR) and Transformation of Science and Education Systems in the Paradigm of Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 06006
Author(s):  
Olena Yakovleva ◽  
Vadym Slyusar ◽  
Olga Kushnir ◽  
Antonina Sabovchyk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
National Education ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
Human Thinking

Education and science play a key role in the vision and development of a fair, peaceful and sustainable society (global, continental, regional and national). Education is one of the crucial preconditions for the implementation of the UN global strategy “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (“Agenda 2030”). Agenda 2030 sets practical challenges for governments to transform the education system (Education for Sustainable Development). Developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and intelligent systems are developing rapidly right now, purely now bring benefits (and, at the same time – probable danger and harm), directly now – significantly determine our existence – and will soon determine even more. When universities argue that 4IR should be given strong and close attention, it means that they can no longer rely only on traditional forms of human thinking and imagination, but also need thinking that depends on algorithmic computations of machines or forms of technology. In this sense, 4IR has changed not only what we do and how we do it, but also who we have become. The mission of the universities of the XXI century is to form a developed personality, a person of high cultural level, who can act in a situation characterized by significant environmental risks. Educational institutions must be transformed and improved as institutions that must create and strengthen a safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environment for all members of society. Which, in the end, will help to achieve success in cooperation at all levels – both in education and science, and in society in general.

Are SDG s Counting What Counts?

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-387
Author(s):  
Gloria Novovic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Indicators ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Policy Target

Abstract The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) encompasses social, economic, and environmental commitments within a single global framework. However, experts have been warning that the ambitious nature of Agenda 2030’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG s) might be lost in indicator-driven implementation. This article examines the assumption that SDG indicators result in policy shrinking (offering a less ambitious framing) by exploring how the framing of Agenda 2030’s gender commitments shifts from SDG s to their indicators. Employing critical frame analysis, this article shows that SDG global indicators result in policy shrinking of gender-specific targets in terms of their 1) human rights framing 2) overall scope, and 3) inclusivity of target groups. This policy shrinking does not necessarily undermine Agenda 2030, but it does call for greater attention, especially by actors promoting gender equality, to national interpretations of specific SDG targets and the inclusivity of otherwise marginalized policy target groups.

scholarly journals Institutionalization of higher education and science in the strategy of sustainable social development: global and European levels

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-61
Author(s):  
Viktor Zinchenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
2030 Agenda

The current education system is still «teaching» society the tasks and goals of sustainable development on a small and insufficient scale. However, the official program document (Resolution) of the UN General Assembly formulates an appropriate global strategy «Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development». Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the key areas for implementing this global integrated multi-level strategy for social, governmental and institutional sustainable development. Education is one of the crucial prerequisites for the implementation of the UN global strategy «Agenda 2030». Therefore, education has a key role to play in seeing a just, peaceful and sustainable society (both global, continental, regional and national). International and European integrated strategy for sustainable social development «Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development» – at the global level of education and science offers a mechanism for achieving and providing inclusive, equitable and quality education and training, promoting all opportunities for education and lifelong learning. The strategy envisages providing and allowing everyone to receive and complete free, fair and quality primary, secondary and higher education, which will lead to appropriate and effective results of sustainable social development of both individual states and the global system. It is also necessary to create preconditions for ensuring access of all, regardless of social, sexual, racial, ethnic origin to quality education at all levels, and to create appropriate conditions for this by 2030, which will allow them to successfully move to the next educational levels and carry out lifelong learning. To do this, all levels, models and systems of education (through the model of «education for sustainable development») must be transformed - to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for sustainable development: sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, through global civic education and the recognition of cultural diversity and the contribution of culture to sustainable development.  Thus, Agenda 2030 sets practical challenges for governments to ensure, through the transformation of the education system («education for sustainable development»), the maximum conditions for all people to participate (through the acquisition of quality knowledge and skills through education) in society, state and economic and political development.

The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: to what extent are human rights and sustainable development mutually compatible in the field of migration?

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Elspeth Guild
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Global Compact ◽  
Un Global Compact ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Un General Assembly

AbstractIn this contribution, I examine the links between the human rights basis of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and its embeddedness in the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. While the GCM grew out of a development framework, it was rapidly incorporated into the UN human rights system. Even during the negotiation of the GCM, human rights took priority over development. The resistance that was manifested against the GCM on its endorsement by the UN General Assembly was directed not against its development links, but rather concerns about its human rights impact. This paper examines the placing of migration in this dual framework and the ways in which outcomes compatible with both are achievable.

scholarly journals Brazilian Hydropolitics under the United Nations 2030 Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabela Battistello Espindola ◽  
Maria Luisa Telarolli de Almeida Leite ◽  
Luis Paulo Batista da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

The global framework set forth by the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) include water resources in their scope, which emphasizes how water assets and society well-being are closely intertwined and how crucial they are to achieving sustainable development. This paper explores the role of hydropolitics in that Post-2015 Development Agenda and uses Brazilian hydropolitics set to reach SDG6 as a case study.

scholarly journals China’s Belt and Road Initiative 2.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Jiahan Cao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Development Goals

As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) quickly evolves into an updated version for realizing high-quality development, its long-term success will increasingly depend on how well it can earn international legitimacy and credibility. Since sustainability is a critical source of credibility for the BRI, it is necessary to move the BRI forward by amplifying its role as a development agenda and tapping its potential to support global sustainable development and facilitate implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) through delivering more public goods to other developing countries. The BRI projects designed to strengthen infrastructure inter-connectivity can greatly fit the developmental needs of countries along the routes and expedite their achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs), both explicitly and implicitly. Besides, the growing alignment between the BRI and the 2030 Agenda will generate more strengths and opportunities for China to be recognized as an indispensable player in international development cooperation, enhance the capacity of the BRI to manage environmental, social and governance risks in host countries, promote social cohesion and inclusiveness along the routes, and ultimately transcend short-term economic and political interests for China to win the hearts and minds of other stakeholders involved in the BRI.

scholarly journals Reconciling human rights and the environment: a proposal to integrate the right to food with sustainable development in the 2030 development agenda

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Ana García Juanatey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This article examines the utility of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) in tackling environmental challenges that face achievement of the right to food in coming decades. So far, such approach has been quite useful in the consideration of equity, discrimination and accountability issues. Nevertheless, the HRBA’s utility to tackle the effects of environmental degradation, natural resources depletion and climate change on food security is not that clear, as human rights law and practice has evolved in parallel with environmental concerns until recently. Therefore, this article poses the following question: is the human rights-based approach to food security sufficient to address the environmental problems and constraints that infringe directly on the right to food implementation? And, how can we integrate the needs of future generations in current human rights-based policies and deal with the tradeoffs between present and future needs? This article examines how last years’ international legal literature has portrayed the linkages between the environment and human rights, principally in relation to the right to food. Moreover, it also intends to explore possible avenues of convergence, pinpointing opportunities to connect the right to food and sustainable development in the context of the 2030 Agenda. In more concrete terms, it suggests that a greater integration between the right to food and a set of principles of sustainable development law may open new avenues for research and advocacy on the right to food.Keywords: Human Rights, Environment, Right to Food, Human Rights- Based Approach, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Law

scholarly journals Desarrollo (evolución internacional) = Development (international evolution)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Jorge Resina de la Fuente
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Human Development ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Legal Construction ◽  
Siglo Xx

Resumen: Este artículo analiza la construcción histórica y legal del concepto de desarrollo en el ámbito internacional, desde su institucionalización a mediados del siglo XX hasta la aprobación en 2015 de la Agenda 2030 de Desarrollo Sostenible por parte de las Naciones Unidas. Para ello, se plantea un estudio sobre cómo evoluciona el término a través de un recorrido por los distintos contextos en los que aparece y los debates que se generan en torno a cuestiones como crecimiento, sustentabilidad o capacidades humanas.Palabras clave: Desarrollo, Sostenibilidad, Desarrollo Humano, Cooperación Internacional, Agenda 2030.Abstract: This article analyzes the historical and legal construction of the concept of development in the international arena, since its institutionalization in the middle of the twentieth century to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations in 2015. To do this, we study how the term evolves through the different contexts in which it appears, and what debates are generated, with issues such as growth, sustainability or human capabilities.Keywords: Development, Sustainability, Human Development, International Cooperation, 2030 Agenda.

scholarly journals Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tancrède Voituriez ◽  
Kanako Morita ◽  
Thierry Giordano ◽  
Noura Bakkour ◽  
Noriko Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda

Blended finance and public private partnerships are landmark mechanisms for sustainable development financing. They are flagged by development finance institutions as promising means to bridge the post-2015 development investment gap. However, the effectiveness of their potential contribution to financing the post-2015 development agenda remains far from certain. Not only do their definitions differ from one institution to another, but also their performance in leveraging funding and channeling it to the most needful goals and countries has not been properly assessed, mostly due to the lack of empirical evidence. In this chapter, we aim to explain why these two financing vehicles fall short of delivering on promises. We provide insight on some possible means to overcome their current limitations.

Libraries as Vehicle to Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs): Nigerian’s current status and outlook

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 16-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Igbinovia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Stimulate Action ◽  
Content Type ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Sustainable Developmental Goals

Purpose This paper aims to examine the progress made by Nigerian libraries towards the actualization of sustainable developmental goals (SDGs) and to review possible opportunities for better actualisation. The resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 25, 2015, resulted in a 2030 agenda for sustainable development with 17 goals and 169 targets, a transition from the millennium developmental goals, which should stimulate action over the next 15 years. Design/methodology/approach In view of this agenda, sessions at the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Conference were held in 2015 in Cape Town to focus on the post-2015 development agenda available at http://www.ifla.org/node/9727. Session 103 of the 2015 IFLA Conference was on the contribution and mission of libraries and information services or sustainable development. Findings The Registrar of the Librarian’s Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) during the 6th Induction Ceremony for librarians held on September 13, 2015, stated that the profession will focus on making sustainable developmental goals (SDGs) a reality. In line with this, libraries and librarians in Nigeria have been doing a great deal, especially in the area of creating awareness about the goals by all stakeholders. Originality/value The aim of this paper is to examine the current status of Nigerian libraries toward meeting the SDGs as an example for developing countries and to propose recommendations for meeting these goals.

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