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Transition from MDGs to SDGs: a guiding star to the better future for all 0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 30/12/2015
The global ecological and environmental challenges we are facing can be solved by shifting our ways of thinking from anthropocentric to ecocentric, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be a guiding star on this path.
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UN Sustainable Development Goals; does Africa have what it takes?0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 29/12/2015
Good governance in African countries is key to achieving the sustainable development goals. Observance of basic tenets of rule of law is the foundation upon which development thrives. I see the success of the sustainable development goals premised on the ability of individual countries to establish and respect the rule of law.
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Fragmented, incoherent & chaotic – Global goals need better orchestration 0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 29/12/2015
A new universal agenda including 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets was established in New York this September. It is a complex agenda with interlinked issues, which requires an “orchestrator of orchestrators” to ensure an effective and fair implementation process.
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SDGs and Urban Biodiversity: Protecting rats and pigeons?0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 26/12/2015
The freshly released Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) please ecologists: Unlike the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs have ‘environment’ firmly enshrined in almost half of the 17 Goals. And yet Goal 15 on biodiversity loss makes us grin to a certain extent, as it seems to assume that nature can only be found on the countryside.
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U-Multirank – shaking up the traditional World University Rankings?0
- Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 24/12/2015
Caught between two stools? As University’s application deadlines are approaching, some young people might significantly relate to the idiom. Let’s face it, choosing an academic orientation can be a real dilemma. This is exactly why we have today an important number of global university rankings around the World. It was only a matter of time before the European Union also steps in. Launched in May 2014 between critics and excitement, U-Multirank was nonetheless very expected.
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Kosovo: Moving forward with the integration of Serbs?1
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 23/12/2015
Whether with more or less autonomy, the association seems like the best option for all stakeholders providing a clearer delimitation and consolidation of Kosovo, consequently its potential broader recognition in an international sphere and normalization of relations with Belgrade and with the EU.
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