Sustainable Development Goals and UN Goal-Setting

Browne, Stephen

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“…The most often cited definition of sustainable development is ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (WCED, 1987). The SDGs have a relatively long history in which the United Nations has played a significant role (Browne, 2017; Midgley, 2017; WCED, 1987). Upholding article 55 of the UN Charter of 1945—that focuses on the ‘higher standards of living, employment and conditions of economic and social progress and development’—the United Nations has been trying to enhance the wellbeing of the people of its member states for many years (Midgley, 2017).…”

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The Sustainable Development Goals: An Australian Response

Pawar

O’Sullivan

Cash

et al. 2020

The International Journal of Community and Social Development

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The article critically reviews and discusses the findings and recommendations of the Australian Senate Inquiry into the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and suggests strategies to achieving the SDGs within and beyond Australia. By employing the focus group discussion method, it critically discusses the report as per the Inquiry’s terms of reference and looks at Australia’s responses to the SDGs both domestically and internationally. It underscores the engagement of government, including the Official Development Assistance, and non-government organisations, and the private sector. To accelerate the implementation of the SDGs, it argues that greater awareness of the SDGs, attitudinal change and systematic implementation and action are needed locally, nationally and globally. The SDGs require an approach that is beyond national interest, focusing on world development that leaves no one behind.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Sustainable Development Goals: An Australian Response

Pawar

O’Sullivan

Cash

et al. 2020

The International Journal of Community and Social Development

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“…First, non-recognition of planetary boundaries. Brandi (2015) sees cognizance of only two of six such 'guard rails'; Camacho (2015) notes silence on population growth; and Palmer (2015a) and Browne (2017) criticize the adherence to a 'three pillars' notion of sustainable development that retains as a first pillar an unreconceptualized economic growth. There is no commitment to replace the disastrous use of GDP as a measure of progress (Stewart 2015).…”

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“…The G-T-I framework is meant to allow a combination of big vision, feasible foci, and nationally-specific adaptations. Vandemoortele (2017) warns that only 30 of the 169 SDG 'targets' as formulated in 2015 were clear, time-specific, and quantified; Browne (2017) and others correspondingly condemn the goals as not a helpful management tool. Arguably however, the SDGs are not to be judged by technocratic tidiness, as if they were MDGs 2.0 for coordinating the work of a set of controller international funding agencies.…”

Section: Progress Through Goals-targets-indicators (G-t-i) and Nation-specific Adaptationsmentioning

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The road to the Sustainable Development Goals: building global alliances and norms

Gasper

2019

Journal of Global Ethics

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Several insider accounts of the formation of the Sustainable Development Goals suggest that the process (the procedures used and the emergent organizational and governance system features) was as important as the resulting goal-set. The paper looks at both aspects, and relationships between them: the rising influence of Southern nations (seen in the roles played by Colombia, Brazil, some African countries and the G77); the partial transcendence of traditional inter-bloc negotiation, including through adoption of elements of deliberative decision-making; the major involvement of civil society and business organizations, thanks especially to the IT revolution; the adoption of a goalstargets-indicators frame that has flexibility at national level and implicit reliance on intensive further civil society activism and monitoring. The paper considers these features and the implied prospects for the SDGs in relation to various perspectives on global governance, with special reference to norm-setting: Ruggie's concepts of 'global public domain' and 'polycentric global governance', Risse and Sikkink's 'norms cascade', Murphy's posited required elements for progressive global innovation, and Raskin's model of transition through responses to crises. It concludes with questions for further work, including regarding the possibly problematic absence of an explicit inspirational value-core.

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“…Solutions to international problems should be sought by function, not form. Mitrany claimed to be inspired by President Roosevelt's New Deal, which he imagined in internationalized guise (Browne 2017).…”

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“…The charter for the future ITO was agreed in Havana in 1948 and required ratification by the United States to come into effect. Truman submitted it to Congress several times without success and then withdrew it in 1950, seeing that it was not going to be approved (Palmeter and Mavroidis 2004;Browne 2017). The ITO was thus still-born, prompting the UN to seek other ways of negotiating trade deals, as will be outlined below.…”

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The growing UN edifice

Browne¹

2019

UN Reform

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Sustainable Development Goals and UN Goal-Setting

Cited by 135 publications

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The Sustainable Development Goals: An Australian Response

The Sustainable Development Goals: An Australian Response

The road to the Sustainable Development Goals: building global alliances and norms

The growing UN edifice

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