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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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The future we want?0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 21/12/2015
Resolution A/RES/66/288 of the United Nations, better known as The Future We Want, is an ambitious document published in 2012 to end the World’s major problems through the sustainable development goals. With the post-2015 development agenda soon to take off, and the climate summit in Paris in foresight, The Future We Want is back in the limelight – if ever gone to begin with. The future will be sustainable. Because that is what we want. Is its essential underpinning, globalization, also the future we want? Jaap Rozema guesses not.
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Politheor’s Special Report on the UN SDGs 9
- Environment and Energy, Special Report
- 15/12/2015
Not least because sustainability has become a catch-all phrase, much ink has been spilled about the UN SDGs.
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