The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance, Perceptions; Actors; Innovations

Year

2024

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-52922-802-1

Link

Last Update

01-Aug-2026

Keywords

Public Policy & Administration ; sustainability-discipline ; Environmental Studies

Description

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted Agenda 2030 in 2015 with a set of wide–ranging goals that articulate the desired outcome of sustainable development. These so–called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were the result of two processes: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000, and the results of the 2012 Rio+20 Summit, which augmented Agenda 21 of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Hence the SDGs are an effort to integrate the development and environmental agendas. Humans are dramatically accelerating global environmental change, and some scholars consider the SDGs to be example of development approaches being increasingly ‘in tune...