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Thomas Hickmann

Associate Professor | Associate Senior Lecturer

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : Transformative Change through the Sustainable Development Goals?

Author

  • Sabine Weiland
  • Thomas Hickmann
  • Markus Lederer
  • Jens Marquardt
  • Sandra Schwindenhammer

Summary, in English

The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for the transition to sustainability. The agenda acknowledges that different issues such as poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, environmental degradation, among others, are intertwined and can therefore only be addressed together. Implementing the SDGs as an ‘indivisible whole’ represents the actual litmus test for the success of the 2030 Agenda. The main challenge is accomplishing a more integrated approach to sustainable development that encompasses new governance frameworks for enabling and managing systemic transformations. This thematic issue addresses the question whether and how the SDGs set off processes of societal transformation, for which cooperation between state and non-state actors at all political levels (global, regional, national, sub-national), in different societal spheres (politics, society, and economy), and across various sectors (energy, transportation, food, etc.) are indispensable. In this editorial, we first introduce the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs by providing an overview of the architecture of the agenda and the key challenges of the current implementation phase. In a second step, we present the eleven contributions that make up the thematic issue clustering them around three themes: integration, governance challenges, and implementation.

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

90-95

Publication/Series

Politics and Governance

Volume

9

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article (comment)

Publisher

Cogitatio Press

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Globalization Studies

Keywords

  • 2030 Agenda
  • Governance
  • Implementation
  • Integration
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Transformation
  • Transition
  • United Nations

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2183-2463