scholarly journals Blockchain of Carbon Trading for UN Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4021
Author(s):  
Seong-Kyu Kim ◽  
Jun-Ho Huh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Carbon Credits ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Emission Rights

Carbon credits should reduce the environmental pollution and carbon emission of the Earth in the future. The market for carbon credits will become a critical issue from 2021, and carbon credits will be applied to systems where individuals can trade. In order for these carbon credits to be traded between individuals, however, a corresponding exchange of carbon credits is needed. Policies, strategies, and technologies are also necessary to measure the trading of carbon credits. This paper aims at making transactions more reliable by applying blockchain technology to measure carbon emission rights. It uses blockchain to verify carbon emissions rights among the UN-SDGs’ (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’) 17 tasks. In addition, it introduces the necessary dApp. In fact, we can protect against carbon emissions anomalies by using big data and artificial intelligence in mobile cloud environments. Thus, this paper proposes a blockchain-based carbon emission rights verification system to learn proven data further by using the governance system analysis and blockchain mainnet engine to solve these problems.

A Review of Alternative Economic Approaches to Achieve Sustainable Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 288-307
Author(s):  
Seda Yildirim ◽  
Isil Demirtas ◽  
Durmus Cagri Yildirim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Development Goals

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the progress in 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and policymakers have been challenged with the implications of conventional economic system in the market. At this point, it can be said that the adoption of the best alternative economic and business model for the marketplace is the new phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, alternative economic and business models can reduce the carbon emission, environmental pollution, and global warming, but there is a still dark point in solving social issues globally. This study aims to give a brief framework for alternative economic and business models in the context of sustainability. This study presents the links between 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, digital economy, and de-growth. In other words, this chapter focuses on digital economy (digitalization) and degrowth model (degrowing). Accordingly, it is thought to give an up-to-date work for achieving sustainable development after the COVID-19 pandemic in the long term.

The Sustainable Development Goals and Multilateral Agreements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arild Underdal ◽  
Rakhyun E. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores goal setting, as exemplified by the Sustainable Development Goals, as a governance strategy for reforming or rearranging existing international agreements and organizations so as to enhance their overall performance in promoting sustainable development. It discusses the political and entrepreneurial challenges peculiar to bringing existing international institutions into line, and identifies the conditions under which goal setting could be an effective tool for orchestration. The chapter concludes that, because of their ecumenical diversity and soft priorities, the Sustainable Development Goals are not likely to serve as effective instruments for fostering convergence. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides neither an overarching norm that can serve as a platform for more specific goals nor an integrating vision of what long-term sustainable development in the Anthropocene means. In the absence of such an overarching principle and vision, the impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on global governance will likely materialize primarily as spurring some further clustering of existing regimes and organizations within crowded policy domains. The Sustainable Development Goals cannot be expected to generate major architectural reforms that will significantly reduce the fragmentation of the global governance system at large.

scholarly journals The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

SOIL ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia D. Keesstra ◽  
Johan Bouma ◽  
Jakob Wallinga ◽  
Pablo Tittonell ◽  
Pete Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Policy Arena

Abstract. In this forum paper we discuss how soil scientists can help to reach the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the most effective manner. Soil science, as a land-related discipline, has important links to several of the SDGs, which are demonstrated through the functions of soils and the ecosystem services that are linked to those functions (see graphical abstract in the Supplement). We explore and discuss how soil scientists can rise to the challenge both internally, in terms of our procedures and practices, and externally, in terms of our relations with colleague scientists in other disciplines, diverse groups of stakeholders and the policy arena. To meet these goals we recommend the following steps to be taken by the soil science community as a whole: (i) embrace the UN SDGs, as they provide a platform that allows soil science to demonstrate its relevance for realizing a sustainable society by 2030; (ii) show the specific value of soil science: research should explicitly show how using modern soil information can improve the results of inter- and transdisciplinary studies on SDGs related to food security, water scarcity, climate change, biodiversity loss and health threats; (iii) take leadership in overarching system analysis of ecosystems, as soils and soil scientists have an integrated nature and this places soil scientists in a unique position; (iii) raise awareness of soil organic matter as a key attribute of soils to illustrate its importance for soil functions and ecosystem services; (iv) improve the transfer of knowledge through knowledge brokers with a soil background; (v) start at the basis: educational programmes are needed at all levels, starting in primary schools, and emphasizing practical, down-to-earth examples; (vi) facilitate communication with the policy arena by framing research in terms that resonate with politicians in terms of the policy cycle or by considering drivers, pressures and responses affecting impacts of land use change; and finally (vii) all this is only possible if researchers, with soil scientists in the front lines, look over the hedge towards other disciplines, to the world at large and to the policy arena, reaching over to listen first, as a basis for genuine collaboration.

scholarly journals Sustainable Feedbacks of Colombian Paramos Involving Livestock, Agricultural Activities, and Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030

Systems ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Raúl Andrés Molina Benavides ◽  
Rómulo Campos Gaona ◽  
Hugo Sánchez Guerrero ◽  
Leonidas Giraldo Patiño ◽  
Alberto Stanislao Atzori
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Human Presence ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Soil Sustainability ◽  
Development Goals

Colombian mountain Páramos are considered natural areas with a very important role for human life. Páramos provide, both in mountain and lowland areas, a multitude of ecosystem services which start from vegetation to soil sustainability. The sustainability of Páramos is however impaired by several anthropogenic activities, including agricultural and livestock practices. A system thinking approach was applied in this work to improve the systemic understanding of factors affecting sustainability and resilience of Páramos agro-ecosystems. Interdisciplinary literature evidences were summarized and conceptually analyzed in order to develop causal loop diagrams of Páramo system structures allowing describing the main feedback loops involving (involved in/connecting) the Páramo ecosystem and driving its sustainability. From the causal diagram analysis few insights to maintain the human presence in Páramos arose. The system analysis highlights that human presence in Páramos should be stimulated, avoiding agriculture and livestock activities as the main income source. Particularly, social interactions, education on the Páramos environmental and relevance of agricultural practices to foster ecosystem services and multiple rentable economic activities should be enhanced. The study also includes the role of the government in providing the Páramo inhabitants with payments for ecosystem services and environmental education aimed to boost sustainability. Sustainable Páramo management will apply specific leverages on the system to reach Sustainable Development Goals 6 (water), 8 (economic growth, employment and work), 13 (climate change), and 15 (sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems) of the Agenda 2030.

scholarly journals Combining Participatory Processes and Sustainable Development Goals to Revitalize a Rural Area in Cantabria (Spain)

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 412
Author(s):  
Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender

Due to industrial civilization, the decline of the countryside has become a global phenomenon. Spain is a good example that reflects this issue in the rural areas of the European Union because more than half of all municipalities in the country are at risk of extinction. This manuscript aims at combining social engagement and the application of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to propose a sustainable rural revitalization plan. Several multi-sectoral working groups participated in three consultation rounds to prescribe 52 customized actions directed to Pesquera-San Miguel de Aguayo area. Social (17) and environmental (16) dimensions collected the highest number of initiatives, whilst the institutional dimension was only addressed by eight proposals. Furthermore, 40 out of the 169 SDG targets of the 2030 Agenda were put forward in the rural strategy, which also contemplated most priorities adopted by the Rural Development Programme for Cantabria. A cooperative association was identified as the most preferred governance system in order to build a community spirit and promote social empowerment, inclusiveness, and gender equality. Municipal and regional authorities were not invited to join the participatory process in order to not constrain the involvement of the selected stakeholders.

scholarly journals Carbon credits for cookstoves: Trade-offs in climate and health benefits

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (05) ◽  
pp. 600-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia E. Freeman ◽  
Hisham Zerriffi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Carbon Credits ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Financing Mechanism ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Climate And Health

Cookstove projects have long been considered “win–win” development projects based on the multitude of benefits they can create. Carbon credits provide a new financing mechanism to fund such cookstove projects, but have been criticized as not always successfully meeting sustainable development goals. By drawing on previous literature this article critically looks at trade-offs between the maximization of climate and health benefits of cookstove projects in the context of carbon credits. It finds that carbon credits inherently account for climate benefits, but not for health. Therefore, clear objectives of cookstove interventions need to be defined prior to project implementation to insure the maximization of benefits in projects’ priority areas.

Learning to Innovate

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Casey Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Aichi Biodiversity Targets ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Biodiversity Governance

What is the likelihood of science and technology progress for biodiversity from the sustainable development goals? This chapter argues that it is higher than it may seem as a result of scientific developments ready for wide application and a structure of biodiversity governance able to spread innovation. The chapter initially argues that there are three potential fields for innovation under the specific targets of the sustainable development goals: integration of biodiversity with other spheres, ecosystem-based management, and remote sensing. Next, it argues that innovation is likely because the biodiversity governance system has developed localized centers for developing innovation with a system for transferring those findings across scales. It focuses specifically on the importance of the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity, the expert systems developed at the international level, and the ability of international organizations to implement innovative approaches to biodiversity governance. The conclusion is that there is a high potential for innovation, but that taking action after the Aichi biodiversity targets end in 2020 will be key.

Dairy subcomplex in the implementation of sustainable development goals

Ekonomika APK ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 322 (8) ◽  
pp. 40-57
Author(s):  
Olga Kozak ◽  
Myroslav Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Development Goals

The purpose of the article is to reveal the possibilities of the dairy subcomplex in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Research methods. Based on the dialectical method of cognition, general scientific research methods were used, namely: abstract-logical (for generalization and formulation of conclusions); monographic and system analysis (when studying the peculiarities of the development of the dairy subcomplex based on sustainability); comparative analysis (to compare global and national trends in achieving Sustainable Development Goals); graphic (for visual display of analysis results); as well as a systematic approach, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction and others in the field of economic research. Research results. The modern world interpretation of the development of the dairy subcomplex with the use of the foundations of sustainable development is disclosed. Acting as a powerful tool for reducing poverty, overcoming hunger and ensuring human health, directing efforts to mitigate the negative impact on the environment, the dairy subcomplex provides consumers with dairy products in an economically beneficial, environmentally friendly and socially responsible for present and future generations. The role of the dairy subcomplex in the implementation of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals has been determined. Scientific novelty. Comparison of Sustainable Development Goals with the capabilities of the dairy subcomplex to guarantee food security, sustainable growth, and social development with the efficient use of natural resources has been further developed. Practical significance. The study results for implementation of sustainable development goals can be used by interested participants in the dairy subcomplex of Ukraine when developing strategic plans for their work both for the near and for a different perspective. Figs.: 1. Refs.: 57.

scholarly journals Innovative projects for sustainable development of cities (case of Saint-Petersburg)

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 02007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Evseeva ◽  
Olga Kalchenko ◽  
Oksana Evseeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

It is paid a great attention to the problem of sustainable development in modern society. The development of the economy is impossible without the usage of innovative projects in all areas of life. The process of urbanization poses new challenges, so the implementation of innovative projects aimed at sustainable development of cities takes on special significance. The objectives of the current study are definition of the consistency of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and ways to achieve the goals by 2030 for Saint-Petersburg; investigation into the experience of implementation of innovative projects for sustainable development in St. Petersburg; identification the consistency of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and innovative projects in St. Petersburg. Research methods used in the research are deduction and induction, system analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization, statistical analysis. The main results include investigation into the experience of St. Petersburg in innovative projects for sustainable development. They showed that the UN’s SDGs are reflected in the strategy of economic and social development of St. Petersburg until 2030, but partly; a number of pilot innovative projects in the city aimed at sustainable urban development (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals): Ensure access to water and sanitation for all; Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable; Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. The paper contributes toward the knowledge of sustainable development at the city’s level by analysing the experience of innovative projects in St. Petersburg.

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