scholarly journals Powering the Sustainable Development Goals for Green Growth in Nigeria

2022 ◽  
pp. 650-665
Author(s):  
Kehinde Adekunle Adetiloye ◽  
Abiola Ayopo Babajide ◽  
Joseph Niyan Taiwo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Pattern Theory ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Policies

This chapter is on the use of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the achievement of green economy in Nigeria with the specific aim of assessing the performance of key issues in the SDGs. Five goals SDGs 6, 7, 11, 12, and 15 for water and sanitation, safe human settlements, renewable energy, sustainable consumption and production, and ecosystem, respectively, are selected for assessment for the green initiatives and the economy. Budgets on economic and social services follows the pattern theory: that government allocates and reallocates at will without cognizance of the population's interests. The assessment holds the fact that only two of these goals are being met somehow—renewable energy and clean water—and not necessarily because of the need to achieve the goals but as part of private sector and dynamic market initiatives, clearly indicating failures for the others. For the most part, Nigeria failed in the areas of ecosystem, good human settlement, and responsible consumption. The chapter suggests the encouragement of entrepreneurial initiatives, the initiation of new policies on green economy, and the enforcement of regulations already in place to power the economy.

scholarly journals Powering the Sustainable Development Goals for Green Growth in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
Kehinde Adekunle Adetiloye ◽  
Abiola Ayopo Babajide ◽  
Joseph Niyan Taiwo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Pattern Theory ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Policies

This chapter is on the use of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the achievement of green economy in Nigeria with the specific aim of assessing the performance of key issues in the SDGs. Five goals SDGs 6, 7, 11, 12, and 15 for water and sanitation, safe human settlements, renewable energy, sustainable consumption and production, and ecosystem, respectively, are selected for assessment for the green initiatives and the economy. Budgets on economic and social services follows the pattern theory: that government allocates and reallocates at will without cognizance of the population's interests. The assessment holds the fact that only two of these goals are being met somehow—renewable energy and clean water—and not necessarily because of the need to achieve the goals but as part of private sector and dynamic market initiatives, clearly indicating failures for the others. For the most part, Nigeria failed in the areas of ecosystem, good human settlement, and responsible consumption. The chapter suggests the encouragement of entrepreneurial initiatives, the initiation of new policies on green economy, and the enforcement of regulations already in place to power the economy.

Marketing Scholarship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Thoughts on Moving Forward

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492110526
Author(s):  
Al Rosenbloom
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Original Boundary ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals

This article is a commentary on how marketing scholarship can be more relevant as it tackles the human development challenges presented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The commentary argues that as businesses are transforming themselves into purpose-driven organizations, marketing needs to be a part of that transformation. SDG 1 No Poverty and SDG 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production are discussed within the article. The commentary also tackles the institutional barriers that work against path-breaking SDG marketing scholarship: normative promotion and publication expectations along with the practitioner-academic research divide. Without realigning the incentives that reward original, boundary-spanning SDG marketing scholarship, the marketing discipline will be stuck in a cycle of rewarding one behavior while hoping for another.

scholarly journals Assessing the land resource–food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. e1501499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Obersteiner ◽  
Brian Walsh ◽  
Stefan Frank ◽  
Petr Havlík ◽  
Matthew Cantele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for a comprehensive new approach to development rooted in planetary boundaries, equity, and inclusivity. The wide scope of the SDGs will necessitate unprecedented integration of siloed policy portfolios to work at international, regional, and national levels toward multiple goals and mitigate the conflicts that arise from competing resource demands. In this analysis, we adopt a comprehensive modeling approach to understand how coherent policy combinations can manage trade-offs among environmental conservation initiatives and food prices. Our scenario results indicate that SDG strategies constructed around Sustainable Consumption and Production policies can minimize problem-shifting, which has long placed global development and conservation agendas at odds. We conclude that Sustainable Consumption and Production policies (goal 12) are most effective at minimizing trade-offs and argue for their centrality to the formulation of coherent SDG strategies. We also find that alternative socioeconomic futures—mainly, population and economic growth pathways—generate smaller impacts on the eventual achievement of land resource–related SDGs than do resource-use and management policies. We expect that this and future systems analyses will allow policy-makers to negotiate trade-offs and exploit synergies as they assemble sustainable development strategies equal in scope to the ambition of the SDGs.

scholarly journals Correction: Metrics for the sustainable development goals: renewable energy and transportation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan J. Buonocore ◽  
Ernani Choma ◽  
Aleyda H. Villavicencio ◽  
John D. Spengler ◽  
Dinah A. Koehler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

scholarly journals Attaining the sustainable development goals in Africa: The new CSR for multinational corporations

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Nojeem Amodu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
State Actor ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Social

The fact that Africa is one of the worst performing regions in global audits about long-term development trends is longer news. The continent has repeatedly missed targets set by the United Nations and there are concerns it might just be left behind in the attainment of the latest 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development set by world leaders in 2015. With a view to complementing states’ responsibilities towards the provision of public goods and social services useful to actualize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, this article interrogates the nature of multinational corporations (MNCs) and juxtaposing the non-state actor responsibilities within wider societal contexts with state duties in advancing the SDGs. The article not only sets the tone for a “new corporate social responsibility” in terms of improved pursuit of sustainability within business communities in corporate Africa, it also recommends workable measures, integrating progressive roles for both the state and MNCs towards the realization of the SDGs on the continent. Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; MNCs; SDGs in Africa; New CSR Roles; Regional Integration.

scholarly journals Impact of Entrepreneurship Activity Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
Ivona Huđek ◽  
◽  
Barbara Bradač Hojnik
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Sustainable development considers the development that achieves the present economic goals, without obstructing the future development in a sense of satisfying the needs of society and endangering the environment. Recently, the entrepreneurship phenomenon has been widely recognized as an important path towards sustainable development, positively contributing to the development of society. Thus, in the paper, the empirical evidence on linkages between entrepreneurial activity indicators and social development goals is provided. To examine the linkages, the data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and Sustainable Development Goals Index were used. The empirical results suggest that entrepreneurship represents an important factor for fostering sustainability, particularly in opportunity-driven and innovative entrepreneurial activities. The results show, that both of them have a positive impact on sustainable development, while the necessity-driven entrepreneurial activity negatively affects sustainable development. This could be explained by the fact that necessity entrepreneurs are not likely to become the entrepreneurs to implement a promising business opportunity, but rather to earn an income. To achieve the sustainable development goals as well as entrepreneurship should become the national priority by introducing new policies and measures, that is, making the conditions, through which entrepreneurship could achieve positive contributions to the development of the society.

scholarly journals The Effect of Product Diversification on Corporate Social Performance in the Non-Renewable Energy Industry: Exploring the moderating effects of host country development and the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-95
Author(s):  
Renske Jongsma ◽  
Bart Jan (Bartjan) Pennink
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

Aim: Building upon stakeholder and institutional theory, this paper investigates the relationship between product diversification and corporate social performance (CSP), thereby attempting to make essential contributions to the current literature. Based on an extensive literature review, it was expected that related, unrelated and total product diversification are positively related to CSP. Moreover, it was hypothesized that the exposure to weak institutional host country environments negatively affects the relationship between diversification and CSP, and that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a positive effect on the relationship. Design / Research methods: The sample selected for this research is the non-renewable energy industry, since the industry shows great divergence in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. In addition, the industry is highly susceptible to regulatory changes, while the Sustainable Development Goals have an enormous focus on the reliability and sustainability of energy, making it a highly relevant industry to study. This study analyzed 40 a 40 non-renewable energy firms over a time frame of seven years, by using OLS regression. Conclusions / findings: The results reveal that unrelated diversification is positively related to CSP, while the other forms of diversification show insignificant results. Contrary to expectations, the Sustainable Development Goals negatively affect the relationship between product diversification and CSP, while the moderating effect of exposure to weak institutional environments is insignificant. Originality / value of the article: Research on the relationship between product diversification on corporate financial performance is well-established, but the way in which product diversification influences a firm’s behavior towards stakeholder demands and social concerns remains largely unexplored. Accordingly, the results of this study challenge existing theories while adding more context to the existing relationship, and in turn provide promising avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Potential Impact of Renewable Energy on the Sustainable Development of Russian Arctic Territories

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3691
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Brazovskaia ◽  
Svetlana Gutman ◽  
Andrey Zaytsev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

In recent decades, there has been a positive trend in world politics in the field of promoting territories’ sustainable development. At the same time, one of the most relevant areas is to promote the transition to renewable energy sources (RES), which correspond to one of the UN’s goals—Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) “Ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy sources for all”. This article is devoted to the study of the renewable energy sources’ impact on the sustainable development of the Russian Arctic zone. The authors chose the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as an indicator reflecting the impact of RES on sustainable development, since this factor is one of the main factors for assessing trends in the activities of countries aimed at achieving progress on most of the Sustainable Development Goals of territories. The hypothesis of the relationship between the use of renewable energy sources and the achievement of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, one of the indicators of which is the level of CO2 emissions, was tested and confirmed. An econometric analysis of panel data for 15 countries that are actively implementing the concept of sustainable development, including decarbonizing policies, was carried out ,where the resulting indicator for achieving progress on the SDG was the amount of CO2 emissions. The factors influencing the resulting variable were indicators selected based on a review of existing models, as well as indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals’ achievement. Using an econometric analysis of interdependence, the indicators of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals that are more likely to have an impact on the level of CO2 emissions were identified. These are electricity consumption, the share of renewable energy sources in the energy balance, the average per capita income of the population, and carbon intensity. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that renewable energy sources are a factor contributing to the achievement of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. The results obtained are also applicable to the Arctic region, since all countries that have territories in the Arctic zone adhere to the policy of decarbonization and try to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

scholarly journals GREEN ECONOMY OF WASTE BANK IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF MAQASHID SHARIA IN SURABAYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hamdan Ali Masduqie ◽  
Syarifudin Syarifudin ◽  
Ana Toni Roby Candra Yudha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Waste Bank

ABSTRAKLingkungan hidup merupakan tempat tinggal semua makhluk hidup yang harus dijaga dan dilestarikan. Kurangnya kepedulian masyarakat dalam melestarikan alam dapat menyebabkan pencemaran lingkungan dan banyaknya sampah berserakan. Hadirnya bank sampah menjadi salah satu upaya guna mewujudkan lingkungan yang bersih, asri dan sehat. Dalam sistem operasionalnya, bank sampah menerapkan nilai-nilai pada maqashid syariah yang kemudian diwujudkan melalui green economy pada bank sampah. Tujuan dari studi ini adalah untuk menganalisa nilai maqashid syariah sekaligus green economy yang terkandung pada Bank Sampah Induk Surabaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan strategi studi kasus guna memberikan gambaran detail terkait sistem operasional pada Bank Sampah Induk Surabaya. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya penerapan nilai maqashid syariah pada sistem operasional Bank Sampah Induk Surabaya melalui ketetapan, pengadaan kegiatan, dan peraturan yang ditetapkan serta mewujudkan 10 prinsip pada konsep green economy yang sekaligus mendukung tiga program pada Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bersesuaian dengan ulasan sebelumnya mulai dari tujuan, metode penelitian dan hasil maka saran yang relevan dengan studi adalah perlu perhatian khusus bagi pengelolaan Bank Sampah Induk Surabaya agar penerapan nilai maqashid syariahnya lebih dioptimalkan sehingga mampu memberikan manfaat lebih banyak bagi masyarakat selain aspek ekonomi.Kata Kunci: Bank Sampah, Maqashid Syariah, Green Economy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ABSTRACTThe living environment is a home for all living things that should be protected and preserved. Lack of environmental awareness can cause environmental pollution and waste problems. The presence of waste banks becomes an attempt to create a clean, beautiful, and healthy environment. In its operational system, waste banks apply the values of maqashid sharia that is called green economy. The purpose of this study was to analyze the values of maqashid sharia and green economy which were applied by the Central Waste Bank of Surabaya. This study used a descriptive qualitative method with a case study strategy to provide a detailed description of the operating system at the Central Waste Bank of Surabaya. The results showed that the application of maqashid sharia values in the Central Waste Bank of Surabaya was applied through stipulations, procurement activities, and established regulations as well as realizing 10 principles in the green economy program concepts which also supported three programs in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the findings of this study, the relevant suggestion is that the management of the Central Waste Bank of Surabaya requires special attention so that the application of maqashid sharia values can be optimal. The optimization of maqashid sharia values will benefit the community, not limited to the economic aspect.Keywords: Waste Bank, Maqashid Sharia, Green Economy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

scholarly journals Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6920
Author(s):  
Alan Colin Brent
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

The significant role of renewable energy in our quest for a just transition to reach the Sustainable Development Goals is unquestionable [...]

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