Reviving or interring global governance on sustainability? Sachs, the UN and the SDGs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2979360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Martine (0000-0001-5876-2540, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 631-638 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-3098 • E-ISSN: 1980-5519 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-30982015000000039 |
| OpenAlex | W2180454955 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0102-30982015000300631 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The science is out and undisputable: Humankind is heading rapidly towards ecological disaster on several fronts, the most visible of which is climate change (STEFFEN, 2015; McNUTT, 2015; BARNOSKY, 2012). Radical measures are urgently needed to alter this trajectory yet they are not forthcoming. Getting a majority of governments to act effectively on these issues has repeatedly proved impossible. The latest multilateral initiative to deal with impending environmental catastrophes is the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit, an event that culminates a negotiating process spanning more than two years. The agenda? The approval of 17 “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) that will succeed the 15-year tenure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the forefront of UN operations. Both of these UN enterprises owe much of their intellectual inspiration to the work of Jeffrey Sachs. Ban Ki Moon identifies Sachs as his special advisor in the Foreword to The Age of Sustainable Development and many of the book’s ideas are easily recognized in the SDG’s formulations. In brief, it is an important and influential book that needs to be reviewed and discussed in some detail.The acclaims received by Sachs for The Age of Sustainable Development are numerous and compelling. Inter alia, Lord Stern states that the book “explains clearly where we can go and how to get there”; Rajenda Pachauri finds that the book “is clear on what we need to make sustainable development a reality”; Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson sees this book as “the most important in circulation”. The nature and amount of praise for Sachs’
Corporate governance · Earth Summit · Economics · Environmental ethics · General assembly · Geography · Management · Millennium Development Goals · Negotiation · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Stern · Summit · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |