Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals?

Moyer, Jonathan D.; Hedden, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104749

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“…Our framework is one effort to include in the discussion on the UN's Sustainability Development Goals how they can be promoted from the perspective of children. By doing this, we complement the literature on sustainable development and children's rights [3,5,6] from a family and child welfare viewpoint. To this end, we need to focus on different levels so that the global goals lead to sustainable family life and child welfare [3].…”

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“…The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) include 35 child-focused indicators, and children are mentioned in many of the 169 targets [2,3]. Despite the existing sustainability goals aimed at children's wellbeing and health, there is a need for more integrated focus on sustainability and equity of children rooted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to evaluate the progress of sustainability from the perspective of children [4][5][6]. A children's rights perspective can be strengthened by generating knowledge on child development in diverse contexts, developing measurement and monitoring, building capacity and infrastructures in different countries [5], and promoting equity and realizing the rights of children so that they are able to lead fulfilling lives [7].…”

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Sustainable Family Life and Child Welfare: A Conceptual Framework

2020

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Although there have been developments in family and child welfare services, these have not been prioritized from a sustainability perspective. This article aims to provide a framework for supporting sustainable provisions for family and child welfare. We demonstrate how the need for a socially sustainable stance on family and child welfare arises from the recognition of global changes that constantly influence families as well as children’s rights, which ground child- and family-centered actions. The conceptual framework includes three overarching dimensions and four levels of actors that provide a body for 16 conceptual entities in providing socially sustainable family and child welfare. The analysis showed that functional child welfare and family policies, systems, and practices appear essential elements, even necessary preconditions, of sustainability and sustainable development in general. Leaning on the concept of children’s rights, we conclude that the idea of child welfare promises citizens that society has committed to promoting all children’s wellbeing. Implementation of this requires a shared understanding that the conceptual framework provided in this paper urges to actualize.

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Sustainable Family Life and Child Welfare: A Conceptual Framework

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“…If the CO2 emissions rebound and get back to its long-run growth trajectory, the chances to accomplish the Paris climate goals will remain meager [49]. More broadly, "the world is not on track to achieve human development-related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030" [50]. Perhaps the pandemic is forcing us to devise more radical solutions to our energy and climate problems, as well as our social and economic predicaments more generally.…”

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How the COVID-19 Crisis is Showing us the Complexities in the Global Energy Transition

Meza¹,

Amado²,

Sauer³

2020

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The measures for tackling the COVID-19 may shrink the global GDP by approximately 6% in 2020, the deepest post-war recession. As a result, the global energy demand declined by 3.8% in the first quarter of 2020. Concerning fossil fuels, this conjuncture reduced the demand drastically and collapsed the prices to historic levels. Despite the general market disruptions, renewable energy sources (RES) seem to be more resilient to the crisis because they are the only sources that will grow in demand in 2020, driven by priority dispatch. The RES´s significant growth in cumulative installed capacity in the last two decades and the significant cost reductions of RES and energy storage technologies are positive signs towards better market conditions for the global energy transition. Currently, the crisis is seen by international agencies and transition scholars as an opportunity to advance a renewable-based energy transformation. Nevertheless, this article aims at caution about another possibility: if societal changes are not urgently implemented, the crisis may weaken the global energy transition. This article examines this last possibility from a three-level perspective: 1) post-COVID economic recovery, 2) low oil and natural gas prices and competitiveness of alternative sources and, 3) reorganization of the world energy market and the OPEC+. This paper exists to stimulate debate.

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“…This model specifically is described further in Section 3. The International Futures (IFs) model developed by the Pardee Center for International Futures at the University of Denver has been extended to address the SDGs at global scale (Moyer and Hedden, 2020). While not strictly speaking a system dynamics model, the IFs model combines principles of system dynamics with other modeling approaches and fits into the classification of ISM.…”

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Integrated simulation for the 2030 agenda^†

Pedercini

Arquitt

Chan

2020

System Dynamics Review

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda are today's global roadmap to sustainable development. Adopted in 2015, the SDGs are the culmination of 50 years of debate and consensus building on the imperatives of sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda explicitly calls for integrated methods for SDG achievement. Two multisector modeling frameworks have emerged to address integration in SDG policy: the system dynamics based Integrated Sustainable Development Goal (iSDG) model and the multimethod International Futures (IFs) model. Both are feedback rich and thoroughly integrated, and we term them as Integrated Systems Models (ISMs). ISMs enable quantification of policy impacts across SDG sectors, helping identify policies that benefit numerous SDGs as well as potential trade-offs. These benefits have been witnessed in countries where these ISMs have been put to task on SDG policy. As the sustainable development paradigm becomes increasingly integrated, a central role is being created for further development of ISMs.

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Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals?

Cited by 249 publications

References 37 publications

Sustainable Family Life and Child Welfare: A Conceptual Framework

Sustainable Family Life and Child Welfare: A Conceptual Framework

How the COVID-19 Crisis is Showing us the Complexities in the Global Energy Transition

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Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals?

Cited by 249 publications

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Sustainable Family Life and Child Welfare: A Conceptual Framework

Sustainable Family Life and Child Welfare: A Conceptual Framework

How the COVID-19 Crisis is Showing us the Complexities in the Global Energy Transition

Integrated simulation for the 2030 agenda†

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