Rethinking Arctic sustainable development agenda through indigenizing UN sustainable development goals

Progress toward Sustainable Development Goals and interlinkages between them in Arctic countries

“…The damages associated with unsustainability in the Arctic will exceed by several times those experienced in other regions of the world. Furthermore, the rapidly changing Arctic ecosystems are also interlinked to other parts of the globe [ 31 ]. Thus, by pursuing sustainable development, Arctic countries, which are the most affected by climate change, will not only benefit themselves, but also contribute to fulfilling the 2030 Agenda at the global scale [ 31 ].…”

“…Although the existing studies have focused on the application of global SDGs in the Arctic and added the specific indicators for the Arctic, such as indicators about indigenous rights, livelihoods and knowledge systems [ 31 , 32 ]. However, these studies were all stayed in the concept stage [ 30 , 31 ], for the quality measurement was still lacked for the data availability at the regional scale. Thus, for the data availability, we selected the Arctic countries as our study area.…”

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic, energy-environment and transport sector globally and sustainable development goal (SDG)

“…Subsidy swap from fossil fuel to clean energy to invest in rural areas, subsidy on irrigation for better water supply ( Barbier et al, 2020 ), waste water and sanitation, and employment of carbon tax could be effective ( Barbier and Burgess, 2020 ). Because of so many issue, there is a sought that whether UN should revise their practice ( Degai and Petrov, 2021 ). However, a difference in opinion is also there which says that may be time to consider this pandemic a positive way, which can now trigger to achieve those SDGs promptly.…”

Relate North #9

“…In the North and the Arctic, "knowing with" could be associated with the Indigenous Knowledge System (Kuokkanen, 2000;Smith, 2021). The concept of co-knowing refers in research in an Arctic context not only to the shared knowledge between participating people of the North and the researcher but also to the participating people's knowledge of and with their environment (Degai & Petrov, 2021;Porsanger & Guttorm, 2011). "Knowing with" (as a posthumanist view) is about the ability to know together with the non-human.…”