Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals within 9 planetary boundaries

Randers, Jørgen; Rockström, Johan; Stoknes, Per Espen; Golüke, Ulrich; Collste, David; Cornell, Sarah; Donges, Jonathan F.

doi:10.1017/sus.2019.22

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“…The current environmental degradation has reached alarming levels that require urgent action from around the world. This is particularly true in developing countries that have fewer resources to devote to environmental protection policies [1][2][3], starting with those concerning the abatement of harmful emissions [4,5,7]. To this end, the Fast-Start Finance financial mechanism was launched during the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to counter the effects of climate change and promote economic growth in developing countries.…”

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“…The current dominant economic system led by developed countries has proven to be no longer sustainable; at least along the social and environmental dimension due to the negative externalities it generates. The anthropogenic activities resulting from this system has contributed to the breaching of several ecological boundaries, in relation to climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation [1][2][3]. One way to combat the effects of anthropogenic activities on the environment is a greater deployment of renewable energy sources (RESs) and wiser use of natural resources [4][5][6][7][8].…”

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How Do Energy Use and Climate Change Affect Fast-Start Finance? A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation

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To promote the sustainable development of developing countries through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the impact of anthropogenic activity on the atmosphere, for some decades, developed countries and international institutions provided an increasing amount of climate financing tools, allocated through multiple channels. After the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties (COP15) held in 2009, developed country parties pledged to provide new and additional resources, including forestry and investments, approaching USD 30 billion for the period 2010–2012 and with balanced allocation between mitigation and adaptation. This collective commitment has come to be known as “Fast-start Finance” (FSF). To assess the key factors contributing to the amount and distribution of funding supporting projects using FSF, in this paper, we investigate the relationship between FSF, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions. To this aim, two main analyses were carried out: (i) a qualitative examination of donor’s funding strategies and (ii) a quantitative analysis deepening the relationship between climate finance and greenhouse gas emissions by beneficiaries through a quantile regression model. Findings indicate a need to redesign the current aid scheme, and suggest an increasing need for financed projects to support sustainable economic innovation patterns of developing countries while paying close attention to the environmental policy context. The purpose was to provide useful feedback to policymakers to assess the effectiveness of the flow of funding for environmental plans and to avoid excessive aid dispersal and consequently a reduction of the FSF benefits.

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How Do Energy Use and Climate Change Affect Fast-Start Finance? A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation

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“… i. For a first evaluation of the relationship between the SDGs and planetary boundaries, see Randers et al (2019) in this journal.…”

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“…To adequately address them, judgments must determine contextually and culturally appropriate balances between independently valuable, but often conflicting targets [3]. Simultaneously, policies must ensure global coherence across local and regional actions, so that local efforts do not destructively interfere with each other, nor overstep limitations in the resources of the planet [4]).…”

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Beyond the Indicators: Improving Science, Scholarship, Policy and Practice to Meet the Complex Challenges of Sustainability

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Many teams have developed a wide range of numerical or categorical indicators of progress in the implementation of the SDG targets. But these indicators cannot identify why target goals have not been accomplished, whether or how they do or do not do justice to the social and cultural context in which they are applied, and how newly emerging social dynamics affect indicators. Nor do they provide means for resolving conflicting values and making balanced trade-offs. Our starting point in examining why we have not been successful in progressing towards sustainability is that the sustainability conundrum is primarily a societal, rather than an environmental problem. Our present emphasis is to maintain our way of life while minimizing its impact, hoping that such a minimization strategy would make the world more sustainable. Reducing for example the extent of pollution but keeping the same industries alive would not be sufficient for a transformation towards sustainability. Instead we should ask “How did we come to this point and what practices, in our societies and in our science, need to change to make progress towards sustainability?” To answer these questions, one needs to go much further back than usual in the history of western societies to identify the societal, scientific, technological and environmental co-evolutionary dynamics that have brought us to the current conundrum. And the fact that most societal challenges are of the “wicked” kind, as well as the need to decide among many societal options and many future pathways that may lead to positive results require that we seriously engage in using “Complex Systems” approaches. It is up to our scientific community to identify these pathways, and we need to move fast!

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Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals within 9 planetary boundaries

Cited by 118 publications

References 46 publications

How Do Energy Use and Climate Change Affect Fast-Start Finance? A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation

How Do Energy Use and Climate Change Affect Fast-Start Finance? A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation

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Beyond the Indicators: Improving Science, Scholarship, Policy and Practice to Meet the Complex Challenges of Sustainability

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