Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Menschenrechte

By Barbara Adams and Karen Judd

Herausgeber: Global Policy Forum

Autor: Jens Martens

Bonn, Oktober 2019

By Karolin Seitz

Published by: Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Global Policy Forum, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Berlin/Bonn/Suva/Toronto, October 2019

Vor dem kommenden SDG-Gipfel der Vereinten Nationen am 24. und 25. September kommentiert und analysiert der renommierte Experte Jens Martens (u.a. Geschäftsführer des Global Policy Forums in New York; Koordinator der globalen Civil Society Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) die derzeitige Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 in Österreich und weltweit. Zum Ende hin gibt er auch Empfehlungen ab, wie wir den Stillstand überwinden können.

Die EU-Kommission sieht die EU als Vorreiterin bei der Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 und nimmt in einem Refle­xionspapier vor allem andere Staaten in die Pflicht. Hier knüpft die Kritik von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen an: Nach Verabschiedung der Agenda 2030 und der SDGs im Jahr 2015 habe die EU weder mit der konsequenten Umsetzung der SDGs auf EU-­Ebene begonnen noch eine eigene Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie entwickelt. Stattdessen trete die Kommission auf der Stelle, indem sie auch vier Jahre nach Verabschiedung der SDGs noch immer [...]

By Elena Marmo

Since 2016, 142 countries worldwide have submitted Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) as part of the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF), reporting on progress made towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the action plan of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The VNRs play a prominent role in the annual Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) HLPF with both criticism and acclaim. However, it’s important to consider how VNRs are taking hold beyond the formal sessions in [...]

By Elena Marmo

Every year since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in 2015, governments are invited to present Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) on their progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) of the UN. This process is heralded by some as a great opportunity to hold governments accountable to their actions and by others as a beauty contest riddled with misrepresentation and power imbalances. Civil society organizations in many countries produce [...]

Transforming institutions – shifting power – strengthening rights Four years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda the world is off-track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Most governments have failed to turn the transformational vision of the 2030 Agenda into real transformational policies. Even worse, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise in a growing number of countries. But there are signs of change. Social movements have emerged worldwide, many with young people and women in the lead [...]

By Elena Marmo and Sophia McCarron

“There needs to be an examination of the hardware of the 2030 Agenda, rather than an upgrade of its software” concludes the 2019 Spotlight Report launched on Thursday, 11 July during the High Level Political Forum that reviews the United Nations 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The meeting was co-sponsored by Global Policy Watch, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). Under the title of “Reshaping governance for sustainability”, the [...]

Studying EU policies thoroughly means studying policies of externalization. The thirteen chapters assembled in this publication constitute an impressive – impressively gloomy though – evidence for this assertion. Wherever you turn your eyes, whatever policy domain you may be concerned with: What at first glance may seem to be part of the European Union’s internal policies immediately turns out to be a story of externalities, a matter of spill-over effects transcending the borders of the European polity. And more often [...]