This comprehensive book considers the interrelationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global governance. Expert contributors analyse how political uncertainty, governance practices and institutions impact the implementation of the SDGs.
The Companion evaluates the evolution of sustainable development governance since 2015. International scholars examine governance and actors at the global, regional, national and local levels through case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Drawing on both academic research and practical experience in negotiating and implementing the SDGs, they assess the impacts, challenges and successes of sustainable global governance and lessons for the continuing sustainable development agenda.
This Companion is a valuable resource for students and scholars of sustainable development, politics and public policy, and global environmental politics. Its practical insights are also beneficial for practitioners and UN officials responsible for monitoring the implementation of the SDGs.
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With UN multilateralism under pressure and the original SDGs soon reaching their due date rather than their targets, imminent discussions of a post-2030 agenda warrant a sober reassessment of global governance with and, indeed, through goals. This comprehensive volume provides an ideal vantage point for precisely that exercise! -- Steffen Bauer, IDOS German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Germany The SDG book for the 2030 turning point. Edited by Pamela Chasek with a stellar cast of contributors, it offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the SDGs and a timely springboard for post-2030 debate on global governance across academia and policy. -- Rakhyun E. Kim, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Pam Chaseks book is an excellent basis for a well-informed decision-making process on the pertinent question of how to deal with the SDGs post-2030. As several of its contributors explain: Resist the temptation to renegotiate the SDGs. Priority should be given to smart improvements of implementation processes. In the words of Paula Caballero, the focus now needs to be on the how, not the what. -- Stephan Contius, Special Advisor at Foundations 20, Germany
Contents
1 Introduction to Global Governance and the Sustainable Development
Goals 1
Pamela Chasek
PART I GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SDGS
2 The Sustainable Development Goals: past, present, and future
Perspective 11
Paula Caballero
3 The meaning, evolution, and limits of the SDGs coherence agenda 15
Steven Bernstein and Chen Zhong
4 An HLPF 2.0 for a decisive push towards SDG implementation? Peer
learning, partnerships and political leadership 33
Marianne Beisheim and Felicitas Fritzsche
5 How inclusive are international discussions on the Sustainable
Development Goals? Lessons learned from youth 47
Amandine Orsini and Yi hyun Kang
6 Global sustainability governance platforms in transition: from the COVID-
19 crisis to enduring change1 62
Elise Remling and Ayem Mert
PART II SDG GOVERNANCE ACROSS THE UN SYSTEM
7 The UN system and SDGs: breakthroughs and challenges
Perspective 79
Hossein Fadaei
8 Evolving role of the United Nations Environment Programme in advancing
global environmental governance and the Sustainable Development Goals 82
Maria Ivanova and Olga Skaredina
9 The SDGs and global health governance: impacts, shifts, gaps, and risks
102
Liz Willetts
10 Financing for sustainable development in the age of pandemic:
multilateral
development banks COVID-19 responses and their Impacts on the
Sustainable Development Goals 118
Sven P.C. Borghart, Marjanneke J. Vijge and Yixian Sun
11 Digital and hybrid multilateralism to the rescue during the COVID-19
pandemic 131
Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez
PART III SDG GOVERNANCE AT THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS
12 SDG actions by the Government of Japan
Perspective 147
Norichika Kanie
13 Mobilizing whole-of-society to advance SDG governance: what are we
learning from multistakeholder national reviews? 152
Wangu Mwangi and Nicolas Sautejeau
14 Accelerating progress on the SDGs: implications from Voluntary National
Reviews 165
Mark Elder
15 Process matters in sustainability governance: a regional experience of
the
2030 Agenda deliberations 181
S. Beth Fascitelli
16 Governing for biodiversity in constrained atates: an analysis of Brazil
and
Mexico 197
Anthony Calacino
PART IV SDG GOVERNANCE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
17 Challenges to local implementation of the SDGs: a case study in the Bronx
Perspective 216
Dart Westphal
18 Sustainable development governance in sub-national governments: the case
of Wales and the Well-being of Future Generations Act 221
Laura De Vito
19 Sub-national government hostility, fund capture and power play as
apposing forces in local-level SDG attainment: reflections on two case
studies in southern Africa 234
Suzi Malan
20 Governance of the 2030 Agenda: glocality and the territorialization of
the
SDGs in the Brazilian Amazon 250
Thiago Gehre Galvão, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Yara R.M.
Martinelli and Rodrigo Ramiro
21 From shallow to deep: evaluating the integration of sustainable
development curriculum at higher education institutions 265
Shannon Gibson and Christina Chkarboul
PART V BEYOND 2030: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
THROUGH GOALS
22 Global goal setting: the SDGs and beyond
Perspective 279
David Donoghue
23 Litigating the Sustainable Development Goals 283
Daniel Bertram
24 Sustainable Development Goals and civil society: lessons for future
negotiations and decision-making 295
Roni Kay M. ODell
25 Promises and pitfalls of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals:
a research agenda 309
Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun
26 Conclusion: lessons learned on governance and the Sustainable
Development Goals 321
Pamela Chasek
Edited by Pamela Chasek, Professor of Political Science, Manhattan University, USA
