scholarly journals MAKING WISHFUL THINKING A REALITY - FROM SDGS TO COP21

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOÃO GUERRA ◽  
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LUÍSA SCHMIDT ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Effective Change ◽  
Alternative Action ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
Global Agenda

Abstract The drive to economic growth has persisted in contemporary societies, despite its effects on the very foundations of the global economy, whereas the discourse of sustainability has not surpassed the level of "wishful thinking". The evolution of the global ecological footprint, which underlines climate change impact, points to a narrow path in the reconciliation of social and environmental imperatives for present and future generations and to a redoubled need for social and environmental equity. Within an approach that postulates a stronger connection between discourse and practice, both Sustainable Development Goals and COP21 Paris Agreement strengthen the strategy of universal involvement and commitment, recognizing the meagre nature of results obtained so far, and demanding alternative action for effective change regarding a new and strategic global agenda. This article reflects on this universal desideratum which requires redoubled attention to the decline - and also recovery - of environmental and social conditions.

Aligning our work to the world we all want – why conscious sustainability makes good business sense?

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Clive Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The One ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Significant Opportunity

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to raise the awareness of business leaders to the opportunity presented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a brief account of the author’s experience of running workshops which engaged thousands of people from age 7 to well over 70 across three continents. It also points the reader in the direction of several case studies, suggesting that alignment to the global agenda makes business sense. Findings The first finding is that most people want the same world to be passed to future generations. Second, this world is consistent with the one described by the SDGs. Third, businesses are discovering that alignment to this vision makes good business sense. Practical implications There is significant opportunity for business leaders to consider the world we live in and align their strategies to the global agenda. Social implications Failure to deliver the SDGs will cause significant disruption to or even collapse of society as we know it. Getting business involved is good for the future of humanity and the world we inhabit. Originality/value There are many papers on the SDGs but, to the best of the author’s knowledge, none make the link between the SDGs and the world most people want for future generations. This factor alone should be enough to inspire business leaders to take note.

scholarly journals Taiwan’s ecological footprint and overshoot day

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yung-Jaan Lee ◽  
Lei Chai ◽  
Po-Shu Wu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Population

AbstractThis study examines Taiwan’s ecological footprint (EF) and its Overshoot Day from 2000 to 2018. The latest EF calculation method is used to determine the conversion rates and equivalent factors of bioproductive lands in each year to establish a database of Taiwan’s EF in that period. The results reveal that Taiwan’s EF was 7.69 gha/person in 2000, dropping steadily to 6.46 gha/person in 2018. Taiwan’s carbon footprint accounted for about 61% of Taiwan’s total EF, slightly higher than the world average (60%). The carbon footprint as a proportion of the total EF has been increasing annually. This study adopts social communication tools, such as the overshoot day and the earth clock, to promote sustainable development goals and climate change policy initiatives. Global Footprint Network (GFN) updates the overshoot day of each country in its database yearly, based on each country’s EF and biocapacity. Since Taiwan is not included in GFN, this study adopts the same method and finds out that Taiwan's Overshoot Day in 2018 was March 14th, meaning that on March 14th, 2018, Taiwan exhausted all of the biological resources that its bioproductive lands can regenerate in the year. If the global population lived like Taiwanese, four Earths would be required to provide the resources used. This result not only reflects the consumption of natural resources in Taiwan, but also indicates that Taiwan should focus on sustainable development and reduce that consumption.

scholarly journals Green Tourism in the Context of Sustainable Development and the Challenges Posed by the Global Economic Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (45) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
T. O. Zinchuk ◽  
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T. V. Usiuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Face ◽  
Green Tourism ◽  
Development Goals

The articles aims to substantiate the socio-economic, environmental, historical and cultural role played by green tourism and its contribution to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals based on current innovative trends and capabilities of tourism in the face of challenges posed by the ongoing crisis in global economy caused by the latest pandemic. The objectives of the research were to detail the theoretical, methodological and applied approaches to the development of green tourism, which is a market sector providing travel services. The definition of green tourism has been made more profound through connecting it with the Sustainable Development Goals, which is rather logical. The motivating factors for the development of green tourism have been analyzed taking into account the model of multifunctionality in agriculture and its importance in rural development policy. The nature of changes in the green tourism sector has been identified with respect to the peculiarities of the current global situation, when a pandemic is restraining the world tourism intensity, on the one hand, and is stimulating local tourism, on the other. It is worth adding that local tourism is mostly green and focused on the conservation of the environmental and natural resources, as well as sustainment of mostly rural areas. The research carried out shows that green tourism can become a driving force for economic growth in rural areas, a motivator for employment, a factor in preserving rural culture and traditions in a particular area. At the same time, the results of the research prove the existence of a link between green tourism and national economic, environmental, socio-cultural, intellectual, energy security due to the most typical development priorities of such tourism. On analyzing the experience of the countries that suffered the pandemic most, we have found some prospects for green tourism development. It is a new system of partnership between the state, business and civil society which can become an additional incentive to preserve the potential of green tourism. Thus, strategic guidelines for green tourism development based on institutional priorities, with the current economic crisis challenges in mind, have been designed.

scholarly journals All-Inclusive Sustainability? The Sustainable Development Goals at the Antwerp Port Authority: Compact Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Lars Moratis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Port Authority ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Sustainability Strategy ◽  
Compact Case ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Initial Choice

Launched in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an authorative global agenda to achieve sustainability. Many organizations have been adopting the SDG and linking it to their sustainability strategies. When the Antwerp Port Authority (APA) adopted the SDGs, it initially focused on five out of these 17 goals. After consulting its stakeholders, APA concluded that its initial choice should be replaced by a choice for focusing on the entire set of SDGs. Since 2017, the SDGs constitute the overarching framework for APA’s sustainability strategy. This brief case aims to enable students to explore and reflect on business organizational approaches towards the SDGs.

scholarly journals Achieving Nepal’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) by effective compliance of corporate governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-72
Author(s):  
Anish B.K. ◽  
Anish Mahato ◽  
Sajat Thapa ◽  
Ashish Rai ◽  
Niranjan Devkota
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Effective Compliance ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Desk Review

Background: it has been almost two that sustainable development has been a global agenda in a form or other. Nepal’s efforts to successful execu­tion of millennium development goals (MDGs) also opened new paradigms for the enactment of sustainable development goals (SDGs) planned for 2016-2030. The MDGs based on millennium declaration in the year 2000 by the United Nations (UN) has set foundation for the SDGs 2016-2030. Objectives: The primary purpose of this discourse was to establish the relationship between effective compliance of corporate governance and Nepal’s potential for the attainment of SDGs 2016-2030. Methods: Fully based on desk review performed in a qualitative setting of inquiry. Results: There is positive relationship between effective compliance of corporate governance (CG) and potential for the attainment of SDGs 2016-2030 in changing context of Nepal. Further, this paper highlights the gen­eral national scenarios, issues, challenges and ways forward in governing sustainable corporate development in Nepal to contribute the nation in its mission to attainment of sustainable development goals 2016-2030. Conclusions: Effective compliance of corporate governance serves as an instrumental pre-requisite for enhancing national potential to achieve Ne­pal’s national shared goals on SDG. Implications: Nepal needs immediate goals diffusion with appropriate re­sources allocation for each participant of sustainable development.

scholarly journals The post-2015 Global Agenda – a role for local government

2014 ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Lucy Slack
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Community ◽  
New Targets ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Agenda

As the period of implementation for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) draws to a close, the global community is actively debating what should replace them. Local government is working hard to ensure that the post-2015 global development agenda reflects the important role of local government in implementing the new targets. It is a unique opportunity for local government to make its voice heard, to promote the importance of localisation of the new targets, and to position local government as a key partner in the implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

scholarly journals Shrink and share: humanity's present and future Ecological Footprint

2007 ◽  
Vol 363 (1491) ◽  
pp. 467-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Kitzes ◽  
Mathis Wackernagel ◽  
Jonathan Loh ◽  
Audrey Peller ◽  
Steven Goldfinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Minimum Condition ◽  
Ecosystem Goods And Services ◽  
Agricultural Ecosystems ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Total Capacity

Sustainability is the possibility of all people living rewarding lives within the means of nature. Despite ample recognition of the importance of achieving sustainable development, exemplified by the Rio Declaration of 1992 and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the global economy fails to meet the most fundamental minimum condition for sustainability—that human demand for ecosystem goods and services remains within the biosphere's total capacity. In 2002, humanity operated in a state of overshoot, demanding over 20% more biological capacity than the Earth's ecosystems could regenerate in that year. Using the Ecological Footprint as an accounting tool, we propose and discuss three possible global scenarios for the future of human demand and ecosystem supply. Bringing humanity out of overshoot and onto a potentially sustainable path will require managing the consumption of food, fibre and energy, and maintaining or increasing the productivity of natural and agricultural ecosystems.

scholarly journals Digitalization of the Economy in the Context of the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: An Overview of Key Expert Reports in 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
Alexander Maltsev ◽  
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Vera Maltseva ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Regulatory Capacity ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Intergovernmental Policy

This review examines the key 2019 expert reports on the digitalization of the global economy in the context of the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Noting the beneficial overall impact of digitalization on the implementation of the key SDGs in relation to reduced poverty and misery, and increased social equality and ecological balance, the authors of the reports focus on the challenges that digitalization poses. Among the most important are: the threat of increasing social inequality as a result of the new international division of labour, the hyper-concentration of the digital market, the growing digital inequality, the threat to information security, and the weakening of the regulatory capacity of the state. The authors of the reports note that digitalization is a controversial process that can both help to achieve the SDGs and unwittingly hinder their implementation. In order for digitalization to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs, targeted and coordinated intergovernmental policy involving national and business stakeholders is important.

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