Leaving no one behind? The influence of civil society participation on the Sustainable Development Goals

Sénit, Carole‐Anne

doi:10.1177/2399654419884330

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“…The activists themselves felt there was nothing productive and tangible that came out of this symbolic event [101]. This means that international institutions such as UNEP [102] and UNFCCC and the institutional context can affect the activists' ability to shape climate change policy [103,104].…”

Section: Achievements and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Mobilization to Stop Global Climate Change: Narratives and Impact

2020

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Galvanized by Greta Thunberg’s idea for Friday school strikes, “climate strikes” emerged in 2018 and 2019 as a form of youth social movement demanding far-reaching action on climate change. Youths have taken various actions to combat climate change, but academics have not paid sufficient attention to youth climate mobilization. This study thus examines the questions of what has motivated youth to mobilize and how they have shaped global climate politics and governance. This study focuses particularly on the narrative of youth activists to address their understanding of climate change and their ideas regarding how to respond to it. Youth collective action has succeeded in problematizing global climate inaction and inertia and in framing climate change from a justice perspective, but activists have faced limitations in converting their moral legitimacy into the power required for sweeping changes. Overall, this study demonstrates the emergence of young people as agents of change in the global climate change arena and the urgency of engaging them in climate change governance and policymaking.

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Section: Achievements and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Mobilization to Stop Global Climate Change: Narratives and Impact

2020

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“…The focus on the relationship between representative and constituency shifts to the struggle of representatives to address different audiences. These findings contribute to the scholarly debate on the dynamic practices of civil society representation in global environmental politics by illustrating struggles that have at their core concrete notions of accountability, power, or space (Holzscheiter 2016;Kuyper and Bäckstrand 2016;Sénit 2020).…”

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“…Esguerra et al (2017) examine how CSOs make representative claims by speaking of themselves as holders of knowledge and rights in the context of global environmental expert organizations. In the SDG process, Sénit (2020) finds that informal, exclusive participatory spaces paradoxically make CSO access more influential than formal spaces where many CSOs compete against one other.…”

Section: Csos As Political Representatives Of the Future In Global Environmental Politicsmentioning

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Making Representations: The SDG Process and Major Groups’ Images of the Future

Knappe¹,

Schmidt²

2021

Global Environmental Politics

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process aimed to be more inclusive, transparent, and participatory than prior United Nations processes. This article traces the practices of representation that were performed by civil society actors during the SDG process. In doing so, we advance a performative approach in which the very process of making representation is examined. Its aim is to conceptualize and study representation as an aesthetic and political practice. This leads to the two central research questions of this article: How do civil society organizations in global environmental politics make representative claims by picturing their envisioned future? How are future representations (that is, the representation of futures or future beings) related to actor positions during the SDG process? Special emphasis is given to representations of “the future” as an ever-present frame of reference in environmental politics. Based on a systematic content analysis of the statements of two Major Groups—Children, and Youth and Farmers—we discuss the variety of future representations between the Major Groups and how especially more radical future representations are connected to rather precarious actor positions in representative claims.

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“…It is important to support learning beyond the classroom and play a role in supporting a sense of environmental citizenship and climate justice which can enhance collective and participatory processes that will sustain the changes required. Accordingly, Civic Society Organizations deliver ESD and practical action in communities (Sénit, 2020). It is important to connect learners across all spectrums, from formal to informal, developing agents of change in society.…”

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Ecologized Collaborative Online International Learning: Tackling Wicked Sustainability Problems Through Education for Sustainable Development

Adefila

Arrobbio

Brown

et al. 2021

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is increasingly embedded in higher education (HE) due to the current emphasis on tackling the environmental crisis. Similarly, Civic Society Organisations are expanding their mobilization and practical action in communities. These approaches can reach almost all people on the planet and open avenues for effective global action around sustainable development. It is important to connect both learners and develop agents of change in society. In this paper, we focus on how digital resources can support democratization of knowledge production and improve equitable citizen participation in ESD and practical action at the local and global levels. The paper investigates structures, processes and components that support transnational collaboration in digital spaces, particularly, around the enhancement of sustainable environmental attitudes. We use Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as a basis to develop EcoCOIL as a versatile model for expanding coalition building tools and principles, to promote environmental citizenship and develop multi-layered communities of practice. Stakeholders include university students and staff, technical experts, business leaders and entrepreneurs, social innovators, policy makers, Community Social Organisations (CSOs), etc. EcoCOIL focuses on co-created wisdom sharing across intercultural, intergenerational and transdisciplinary actors; it brings an innovative, participatory angle to curriculum development by integration of lifelong learning principles and practical facilitation of sustainable behavior within communities in real time.

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Leaving no one behind? The influence of civil society participation on the Sustainable Development Goals

Cited by 37 publications

References 28 publications

Youth Mobilization to Stop Global Climate Change: Narratives and Impact

Youth Mobilization to Stop Global Climate Change: Narratives and Impact

Making Representations: The SDG Process and Major Groups’ Images of the Future

Ecologized Collaborative Online International Learning: Tackling Wicked Sustainability Problems Through Education for Sustainable Development

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