From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in purpose, concept, and politics of global goal setting for development

Fukuda‐Parr, Sakiko

doi:10.1080/13552074.2016.1145895

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“…The SDGs signal a shift in institutional focus from the MDGs (Fukuda-Parr, 2016) which communicated a simplified concept of development as meeting basic needs, without mentioning the need to reform institutions. Several authors warned that the ''negotiations around the post-2015 development agenda should go beyond just re-writing goals and targets that adhere to ''sustaining'' the same old economic and social models'' (Moore, 2015: 801).…”

Section: The Sdgs As a Goal-based Institutionmentioning

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Multinational enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: An institutional approach to corporate engagement

2018

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be achieved without the contributions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, extant international business research hardly covers the private sector's role in achieving international policy goals. This article conceptualises the SDGs as a goal-based institution. Building on institutional theory, it develops propositions that help explain MNEs' engagement with SDGs. Exploratory survey results from 81 European and North American Financial Times Global 500 companies indicate that MNEs engage more with SDG targets that are actionable within their (value chain) operations than those outside of it, and more with SDG targets that ''avoid harm'' than those that ''do good''. Differences in SDG engagement based on MNEs' home-and host-countries and their industrial sectors are also explored. We draw policy conclusions for a more pro-active involvement of MNEs in sustainable development, and we define avenues for future international business research. In particular, cross-sector partnerships deserve further attention.

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Section: The Sdgs As a Goal-based Institutionmentioning

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Multinational enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: An institutional approach to corporate engagement

2018

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“…Thus far, publications in this field have focused on the post-2015 consultations, intergovernmental negotiations and the substantive increase in scope from the MDGs to the SDGs (e.g. Chasek et al, 2016;Fejerskov, 2016;Fukuda-Parr, 2016;Vandemoortele, 2014). A nascent literature usefully identifies challenges involved in realising the new goals and future accountability matters (Berensmann et al, 2015;Donald and Way, 2016;Fukuda-Parr and McNeill, 2015;Ocampo and Gómez-Arteaga, 2016;Pogge and Sengupta, 2015).…”

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Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Bexell

Jönsson

2016

Forum for Development Studies

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This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015. Our conceptual framework serves to make the study of SDG responsibility more systematic by distinguishing three main senses of responsibility: cause, obligation, and accountability. The framework structures our analysis of two SDG summit documents, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The article shows, first, that the causal sense of responsibility is hidden between the lines in paragraphs on poverty, debt and environmental issues. As a consequence, root causes of problems might not be appropriately addressed. Second, SDG summit documents deal predominantly with responsibility in the sense of obligation. We raise concerns with repeated consideration for national circumstances and with vague obligations for non-governmental actors. Third, with regard to accountability, we stress that quantitative indicators have unintended steering effects both before and beyond the review phase. The focus on indicators risks shadowing broader obligations, such as international human rights. In all its three senses, responsibility in key SDG documents remains statecentric with great room for state sovereignty, self-regulation and respect for national circumstances. Our framework is useful also in showing that the three senses of responsibility build on each other and that engagement with responsibility provides fruitful ground for further research.

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“…Note: The vertical axis displays the scores as assessed by decision-makers, and the horizontal axis displays the assessment indicators randomly organized by criterion. Table 3, the relative weights of environmental value, economic value, and social value perceived by the public sector, non-profit organizations, and the private sector were (28,43,29), (41,20,39), and (15,54,31), respectively. The results showed that although the public and private sectors viewed local sustainable development differently, they both assigned the greatest importance to economic value.…”

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Environmental Consciousness in Local Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Anti-Idling Policy in Taiwan

Chang

2019

Sustainability

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To address the increasing impact of global warming, Taiwan has devised a variety of activities to promote energy savings and carbon reduction. Although the city of Tainan was the first in Asia to enforce an anti-idling policy, the intersection between public value creation and local sustainable development has not yet been analyzed. Hence, this article explores the anti-idling policy in Tainan through the lens of social judgment theory (SJT). It also considers criteria related to the core values of environmental, economic, and social sustainability to understand the public values held by stakeholders in Tainan. The results of this article illustrate and dismantle the differences between several groups’ understanding of public value as it relates to local sustainable development, and suggest the establishment of intersectoral collaboration and community participation regarding value perception. Although the case is specific to Taiwan, its characteristics are typical of local sustainable development globally, especially in Asia.

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From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in purpose, concept, and politics of global goal setting for development

Cited by 348 publications

References 6 publications

Multinational enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: An institutional approach to corporate engagement

Multinational enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: An institutional approach to corporate engagement

Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Environmental Consciousness in Local Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Anti-Idling Policy in Taiwan

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