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"We do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream":An ecofeminist critique of Sustainable Development Goal 5'
No full text‘We Do Not Want to be Mainstreamed into a Polluted Stream’: An Ecofeminist Critique of SDG 5
No full textThis chapter evaluates SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls from an ecofeminist perspective. It outlines the risks and possibilities associated with linking developmental and environmental goals with the pursuit of gender equality through a focus on women. Our interrogation of SDG 5, and Agenda 2030 more broadly, is organised around two broad clusters of criticisms concerned with their reductionist view of gender and the production-reproduction dualism that underpins their green economic vision. In response to these criticisms, we suggest that the road to achieving SD must be paved, not with liberal concepts of equality and empowerment, but with ambitious political goals and concrete policies for a fundamental transformation in relations and responsibilities of socio-ecological reproduction in order to redress the structural dimensions of gendered and racialised injustice
Governing the Climate Crisis: Three Challenges for SDG 13
No full textClimate scientists have warned that, without immediate and sharp cuts to the dependence on fossil fuels, the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C goal is likely to be overshot within this decade. Demands for a rapid exit from fossil fuels, particularly coal, are intensifying. A growing number of countries and regions have set net zero climate targets for mid-century and more and more countries are issuing plans to speed up the transition of their energy systems. At the same time, various actors have worked to slow climate action, and fossil fuel interests persistently delay or obstruct decarbonization efforts. This chapter summarizes the long history of international climate negotiations, presents the current status of climate programs in selected countries and sheds light on the role of recent (anti-)climate movements. It argues that the implementation of SDG 13 (‘urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts’) faces three key challenges: (1) the tension between increasing urgency and a voluntary post-Paris climate governance regime; (2) the need to balance development priorities with climate change concerns; and (3) the sociopolitical struggles attached to climate action
"We do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream":An ecofeminist critique of Sustainable Development Goal 5'
No full textFrom economic growth to socio-ecological transformation : Rethinking visions of economy and work under SDG 8
No full textThis chapter critically analyses SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth) and its targets from the perspective of degrowth, and suggests how the economy and work could be reoriented towards socio-ecological transformation. First, it problematizes the goal of perpetual economic growth, which is not compatible with ecological sustainability because of the impossibility of decoupling GDP growth from material and energy throughput at the global level. It also pays attention to injustices entangled with the pursuit of growth. Second, it discusses the understanding of work in SDG 8, arguing that the growth-centrism of societies makes work unsustainable and unjust, while the current targets address the symptoms rather than underlying causes of the problems with work. Third, instead of economic growth, the chapter argues that socio-ecological transformation is a more fitting orientation for societies. In line with this goal, it formulates a vision of regenerative economy focused on well-being, sufficiency and equity, and a vision of work that emphasizes work in regenerative activities, its democratization and working less. In conclusion, it suggests that the overall framework of Agenda 2030 needs to focus on well-being rather than the growth-focused and Western notion of development, and articulates an alternative to SDG 8
"We do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream":An ecofeminist critique of Sustainable Development Goal 5'
No full text‘We Do Not Want to be Mainstreamed into a Polluted Stream’: An Ecofeminist Critique of SDG 5
No full textThis chapter evaluates SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls from an ecofeminist perspective. It outlines the risks and possibilities associated with linking developmental and environmental goals with the pursuit of gender equality through a focus on women. Our interrogation of SDG 5, and Agenda 2030 more broadly, is organised around two broad clusters of criticisms concerned with their reductionist view of gender and the production-reproduction dualism that underpins their green economic vision. In response to these criticisms, we suggest that the road to achieving SD must be paved, not with liberal concepts of equality and empowerment, but with ambitious political goals and concrete policies for a fundamental transformation in relations and responsibilities of socio-ecological reproduction in order to redress the structural dimensions of gendered and racialised injustice
Perceptions, Actors, Innovations
Get PDFWith Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book has a unique focus on the political tensions between environmental and socio-economic objectives and advocates for a cooperative shift towards environmentally sound sustainability
Partnerships for SDGs: Facilitating a Biodiversity– Climate Nexus?
Get PDFIn the past three decades, the UN has led the governance of sustainable development via three different global agendas that have taken different perspectives towards sustainable development and brought about some structural changes. The 2030 Agenda is the most recent one, and two key characteristics distinguish it from its predecessors: (1) it is the first agenda explicitly recognizing the interconnected nature of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals; and (2) multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) play a more central role in the implementation of the goals than ever before. SDG 17 actually calls for partnerships as the main vehicle of delivering sustainable development globally. With these two characteristics, the 2030 Agenda implicitly assumes that MSPs are an effective vehicle for bridging the goals. Whether MSPs can indeed act as nexus facilitators, and how they can achieve it, have received little scholarly attention. Thousands of partnerships have been registered on UNDESA’s Partnership Platform, many of which cut across SDGs and promise to deliver synergies between different issue areas. Empirically focusing on entries in this platform that declare they are working on SDGs 13 (Climate action) and 15 (Life on land), this chapter explores whether MSPs live up to the expectation that they act as nexus facilitators
The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance
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With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development.
The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs between the ‘green’ and other goals, such as gender equality and economic growth. It also considers related goals on cities and partnerships as crucial for implementing environmentally sound sustainability. Identifying governance failures and responsibilities, it advocates for a shift towards cooperative economics and politics for the common good
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