scholarly journals Horizons and Conscience

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-143
Author(s):  
Christopher Platt
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
International Community ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
European Student ◽  
Thematic Area

What world does a European student imagine as they look beyond the Academy towards their future professional life? What horizons can they see which we cannot? Does that picture engage their moral compass, tracking the pressing contemporary issues from Planetary Environmental Crisis to the fragility of the Global South? How do they, as members of an increasingly international community, navigate that moral complexity? When their own future is unclear, how can they design the human future? ‘Horizons’ could be the sixth thematic area in this conference. ‘Horizons’ is closely linked to ‘Conscience’; the former involving looking outwards and the latter involving looking inwards.

Climate Adaptation Finance and Justice. A Criteria-Based Assessment of Policy Instruments

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Baatz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Community ◽  
Carbon Taxes ◽  
Border Tax Adjustments ◽  
Domestic Trading

Abstract Although the international community repetitively pledged considerable amounts of adaptation finance to the global South, only little has been provided so far. Different instruments have been proposed to generate more funding and this paper aims at identifying those that are most suitable to raise adaptation finance in a just way. The instrument assessment is based on the following main criteria: fairness, effectiveness and feasibility. The criteria are applied to four instruments: contributions from domestic budgets, international carbon taxes collected at the national level, border tax adjustments as well as selling emissions allowances in domestic trading schemes. Domestic emission trading schemes and border tax adjustments achieve the best-or rather, the least bad-results. Two further findings are that (feasible) instruments are unable make agents pay for past excessive emissions and that all instruments generate rather small amounts of funding. As a consequence of the latter, adaptation finance will continue to be highly insufficient in all likelihood.

scholarly journals Modelos de desarrollo y cambio climático

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Azcárate Luxán ◽  
Alfredo Mingorance Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
International Community ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Corrective Measures ◽  
Global Aspect ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Countries

En la comunidad internacional existe unanimidad sobre la crisis ambiental planetaria. El grado de apreciación de la misma está ligado al nivel de desarrollo, y la conciencia de participación en ella es mayor en los países ricos. Sin embargo, la gobabilidad de esta crisis implica tanto al mundo desarrollado como al menos desarrollado. El cambio climático es un claro ejemplo de la magnitud de los problemas medioambientales. Ahora bien, la aplicación de políticas preventivas y medidas correctoras evidencian la dificultad para conjugar intereses muy diversos.There is unanimity in the International community on the subject of the earth's environmental crisis. The degree of appreciation of this problem is linked to the level of development and the participative conscience in it is greater in the rich countries. However, the global aspect of this crisis implies both the developed worid and the less developed worid. Climate change is a clear example of the size of environmental problems. But the application of preventive policies and corrective measures show the difficulties to combine very different interests.

scholarly journals Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Wouter Lips
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Community ◽  
External Assistance ◽  
Sustainable Investment ◽  
International Tax ◽  
Tax Capacity

AbstractThis book has been a collaboration between 20 authors who are all working on issues that link taxation with development and emancipation in the Global South in all sorts of different capacities. Together, we have offered ten chapters that explore four relevant themes: global tax governance and developing countries, external assistance for tax capacity building, tax incentives and attracting sustainable investment, and harmful and helpful tax practices for sustainable development. The book paints a picture of the difficulties countries in the Global South face when they participate in international tax relations, whether bilateral or multilateral, but each chapter also highlights opportunities for how the international community can do better in this regard.

scholarly journals Translating the sustainable development goals in national development planning: the case of Mozambique’s energy for all programme

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eléusio Viegas Filipe ◽  
Kei Otsuki ◽  
Jochen Monstadt
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Development ◽  
Global South ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
International Community ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractThe international community has emphasised the importance of governments adapting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to national policy priorities. Whilst sustainability assessment frameworks and indicators are meant to facilitate adaptation, their assumption of high institutional capacity based on Global North contexts is a shorthand for Global South contexts. In particular, limited institutional capacity means that electricity utilities in the Global South struggle with meeting national and international demands to universalise access to basic services for the entire population as well as in ensuring financial sustainability. Based on a case study of the Mozambique government’s National Energy for All Programme, this paper analyses the ways the public electricity company Electricity of Mozambique (known as EDM) has been translating SDG 7.1 on ‘ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services’ into its national political context given the conditionalities of international donors and investors. One outcome of this translation, a compartmentalisation of EDM’s organisational structure, is counterproductive to the integrative and autonomous approach of the SDGs for sustainable development at the national level. To reduce organisational fragmentation and dependency of national project implementers such as EDM on donor interventions, the international community needs to tailor and better align SDG-oriented interventions with the conditions of Southern institutional frameworks and their political contexts.

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