The UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Governance of Global Public Goods

Global Public Goods ◽

Indicator Framework ◽

Development Goals ◽

Normative Dimension ◽

Global Indicator ◽

Democratic Procedure ◽

This chapter analyses the relationship between global public goods (GPGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It argues that the Global 2030 Agenda of the United Nations constitutes an example of how the concept of GPGs has been given a normative dimension in international law, as well as of the difficulties that may be encountered in the process of operationalization of GPGs. The normative framework for the implementation of the SDGs relies on the use of indicators to evaluate state performance in achieving the SDGs. The choice of such indicators is crucial for appropriate decision making. However, both the usefulness and the legitimacy of indicators have been put into question. The chapter contends that the indicators are in fact normative – and intrinsically politically-driven – instruments. For this reason, the development of a global indicator framework should be expected to follow a democratic procedure involving all the relevant stakeholders.

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

TASK AND PROGRESS OF IAEG-SDGS: WGGI IN MONITORING SDGS THROUGH A ‘GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION’ LENS

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-385-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol XLII-3 ◽

pp. 385-390 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

W. Geng ◽

J. Chen ◽

H. P. Zhang ◽

K. Xu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Working Group ◽

Geographic Location ◽

Geospatial Information ◽

Existing Problems ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

Indicator Framework ◽

Development Goals ◽

Global Indicator

In September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming to transform the world over the next 15 years (ESDN, 2016). To meet the ambitions and demands of the 2030 Agenda, it is necessary for the global indicator framework to adequately and systematically address the issue of alternative data sources and methodologies, including geospatial information and Earth observations in the context of geographic location (UN-GGIM, 2016). For this purpose, the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicator (IAEG-SDGs) created the Working Group on Geospatial Information (IAEG-SDGs: WGGI) to give full play to the role of geospatial data in SDGs measurement and monitoring. The Working Group reviewed global indicators through a ‘geographic location’ lens to pick out those which geospatial information can significantly support the production, and analyzed the methodological and measurements issues. This paper has discussed the progress in monitoring SDGs ever since the establishment of IAEG-SDGs: WGGI, as well as the existing problems, appropriate solutions and plans for the next stage of work.

Using the SDGs for global citizenship education: Definitions, challenges, and opportunities

10.31235/osf.io/xp52e ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie Leite

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Citizenship ◽

Inquiry Based Learning ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Indicator Framework ◽

Development Goals ◽

Definition Of ◽

Global Indicator ◽

Central Purpose

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) employ a global indicator framework to detail each Goal and monitor its implementation. This article focuses on three targets from the indicator framework, which call for mainstreaming education for global citizenship, sustainable development, and climate change into national curricula. By investigating the practicalities of meeting these targets from an educator's perspective, this article proceeds with: arguing for a need to shift the central purpose of education; examining what is meant by education ‘for’ the three key areas included in the global indicator framework; exploring curricular opportunities offered by the SDGs; and presenting inquiry-based learning as a pedagogical approach for critically interrogating the SDGs with learners. If the SDGs are used to drive a pragmatic definition of global citizenship, then trends in education such as inquiry- and problem-based learning come to life with a clear and urgent purpose.

Global Health and International Development

The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456818.013.14 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 216-235

Author(s):

Andrew Harmer ◽

Jonathan Kennedy

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Economic System ◽

International Development ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Relationship ◽

Global Population

This chapter explores the relationship between international development and global health. Contrary to the view that development implies ‘good change’, this chapter argues that the discourse of development masks the destructive and exploitative practices of wealthy countries at the expense of poorer ones. These practices, and the unregulated capitalist economic system that they are part of, have created massive inequalities between and within countries, and potentially catastrophic climate change. Both of these outcomes are detrimental to global health and the millennium development goals and sustainable development goals do not challenge these dynamics. While the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge that inequality and climate change are serious threats to the future of humanity, they fail to address the economic system that created them. Notwithstanding, it is possible that the enormity and proximity of the threat posed by inequality and global warming will energise a counter movement to create what Kate Raworth terms ‘an ecologically safe and socially just space’ for the global population while there is still time.

Targeting adaptation to safeguard sustainable development against climate-change impacts

10.21203/rs.3.rs-235355/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lena Fuldauer ◽

Scott Thacker ◽

Robyn Haggis ◽

Francesco Fuso Nerini ◽

Robert Nicholls ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Global Priority ◽

Climate Action ◽

Development Goals ◽

Systems Framework ◽

Abstract The international community has committed to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and to enhance climate action under the Paris Agreement. Yet achievement of the SDGs is already threatened by climate-change impacts. Here we show that further adaptation this decade is urgently required to safeguard 68% of SDG targets against acute and chronic threats from climate change. We analyse how the relationship between SDG targets and climate-change impacts is mediated by ecosystems and socio-economic sectors, which provides a framework for targeting adaptation. Adaptation of wetlands, rivers, cropland, construction, water, electricity and housing in the most vulnerable countries should be a global priority to safeguard sustainable development by 2030. We have applied our systems framework at the national scale in Saint Lucia and Ghana, which is helping to align National Adaptation Plans with the SDGs, thus ensuring that adaptation is contributing to, rather than detracting from, sustainable development.

Creative Accounting – Definition, Types, Purposes and Impact on United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Economic Alternatives ◽

10.37075/ea.2020.2.09 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 328-341

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

United Nations ◽

Earnings Management ◽

General Term ◽

Income Smoothing ◽

Creative Accounting ◽

Development Goals ◽

Intersection Points ◽

This article aims to define what is the essence of the so called "creative accounting", its purposes, types of creative accounting techniques and methods and how it relates to and impacts the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Various definitions and characteristics are given to this phenomenon – different authors use variety of terms such as earnings management, income smoothing, creative accounting practices, aggressive accounting, cook the books, accounts manipulation, or window dressing. Irrespectively how it is called, it relates to one and the same thing – presentation of companies’ financial position, cash accounts, equity and earnings in a way that pursues specific personal objective. In most cases, this deliberate presentation is not fraudulent and does not violates the law or the relevant accounting standards, but breaks down the confidence in accounting profession and contradicts to the ethical principles of professional accountants. Specific attention is given to the relationship between accounting and sustainability and particularly, how creative accounting practices impact the achievement of United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Literature analysis and deliberations are presented on how creative accounting prevents the fair allocation of resources in economy and the damage it causes to society. This study does not pretend to explore in detail either the creative accounting, or the SDGs, but its essential objective is to create a basic overview on both phenomena and find intersection points between them. A lot of studies explore the relationship between accounting as a general term and UN’ Sustainable Development Goals, but very few are focused specifically on the link between creative accounting and it’s influence on the achievement of those goals.

A global indicator of wastewater treatment to inform the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Environmental Science & Policy ◽

10.1016/j.envsci.2015.01.005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 48 ◽

pp. 172-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Omar A. Malik ◽

Angel Hsu ◽

Laura A. Johnson ◽

Alex de Sherbinin

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Wastewater Treatment ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Goals ◽

Global Indicator

Sustainable Development Goal 16 at a Cross-Roads

Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online ◽

10.1163/18757413_022001008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 171-186

Author(s):

Frauke Lachenmann

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Negotiation Process ◽

Sustainable Development Goal ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Indicator Framework ◽

Development Goals

The negotiation process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) process was extremely ambitious. It sought to remedy all the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) by ensuring transparency, ownership of the countries of the Global South, strong involvement of civil society groups and stakeholders, and creating a truly transformative set of sustainable development goals. Yet, it did not manage to avoid all the mistakes that were characteristic of the formulation of the MDGS. In addition, it struggled with its very own problems. The article traces the developments and debates that led to the formulation of Goal 16 on the rule of law. It shows that the success of this ambitious goal largely depends on the refinement of the indicator framework and the review mechanism.

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior ◽

The Consumer Role for Sustainable Development

10.4018/978-1-7998-3115-0.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 325-341

Author(s):

Seda Yildirim

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Set Up ◽

The term sustainable consumption is not only a behavior type in marketing and a just consumption behavior, it is more than this. Sustainable or responsible consumption behavior can change the world. Sustainable consumption concept has been investigated widely in the literature and factors that effecting sustainable consumption or being a green consumer has been investigated recently, too. But the relationship between sustainable development and consumer behavior isn't investigated sufficiently. After 2030 Sustainable Development Goals set up, responsibilities and roles have been an important issue to achieve sustainable development in the long term. In this point, this study aims to investigate the consumer role for sustainable development goals through sustainable consumption patterns and trends.

The Consumer Role for Sustainable Development

10.4018/978-1-6684-3885-5.ch047 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 872-888

Author(s):

Seda Yildirim

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Set Up ◽

WPS and Sustainable Development Goals

The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190638276.013.53 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 703-714

Author(s):

Radhika Balakrishnan ◽

Krishanti Dharmaraj

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Policy ◽

Human Rights ◽

Economic System ◽

Sustainable Peace ◽

Peace And Security ◽

Development Goals ◽

Violent Conflicts ◽

This chapter suggests that achieving sustainable development requires a change in the current economic system. Moreover, it advances the idea that an economic system based on the fulfillment of human rights and a peace and security agenda must consider what polices are needed to achieve sustainable peace, beyond the absence of war and violence. The chapter observes that in order to examine the issues surrounding women, peace, and security it is critical to unpack the relationship between existing economic policy and violent conflicts, and to consider how women are disproportionately affected at this intersection. If the fulfillment of human rights was at the center of economic policymaking, the chapter argues, the way in which the state gets and distributes resources would be very different.