Diplomacy For Sustainable Development Research Articles

Enhancing Economic Diplomacy for Sustainable Development in The Gambia

Enhancing Economic Diplomacy for Sustainable Development in The Gambia

Sustainable Development Diplomacy and Nepal’s Foreign Policy

Sustainable development is one of the great challenges of our time. The unprecedented crisis that we cross today is a blunt reminder of the need for cooperation across borders, sectors, and generations. More than ever international assistance is needed to deal with the Covid-19 crisis and its economic and social impacts. The United Nations has been spearheading major diplomatic efforts: to define sustainable development agenda for the world focusing think globally and acting locally. Sustainable development diplomacy builds on but significantly advances the traditional understanding of diplomacy. This situation calls for a stronger approach toward aid assistance (i.e., development cooperation) and development diplomacy, particularly the cooperation between developed and developing countries. A new understanding is needed to make the fight against poverty sustainable. A systematic approach and a clear framework for cooperation, coordination, and management should be established for multilateral, regional, and bilateral engagements. It has been realized that coordinated diplomacy must be built around networks drawn from several government ministries as well as the private sector and civil society. With the changing global environment over the years, the United Nations has evolved and its importance for Nepal continues to remain even stronger. Both diplomats and practitioners in the field are crucial in making these changes, and they need a good knowledge of what development cooperation is and how it functions since their tasks may include the support to the formulation of policies and strategies, the mobilization and allocation of funds, and negotiation and monitoring of development interventions. This paper has been prepared based on desk studies, utilizing relevant publications and websites.

Sustainable Development Diplomacy: Diagnostics for the Negotiation and Implementation of Sustainable Development

AbstractAchieving sustainable development and meeting theUNSustainable Development Goals requires that there be an effective process of negotiating and implementing sustainable development policies and practices. This paper characterizes an evolving approach that we define as sustainable development diplomacy. Based on an analysis of the history of climate governance as a case study of sustainable development diplomacy and drawing on a diverse range of literatures including international negotiations, global environmental governance, and socio‐ecological systems, it identifies seven diagnostics that can be used to evaluate the negotiation and implementation of sustainable development goals. We argue for a needs‐based approach that brings together diverse stakeholders to devise flexible solutions that fit the complexity and scale of sustainable development challenges. We illustrate the diagnostic elements with examples from our case study of climate change, as one of the major global sustainable development challenges, but the diagnostics have wider applicability to sustainable development diplomacy and practice more generally.

A post-Kyoto partner: Considering the stratospheric ozone regime as a tool to manage nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the largest known remaining anthropogenic threat to the stratospheric ozone layer. However, it is currently only regulated under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol because of its simultaneous ability to warm the climate. The threat N2O poses to the stratospheric ozone layer, coupled with the uncertain future of the international climate regime, motivates our exploration of issues that could be relevant to the Parties to the ozone regime (the 1985 Vienna Convention and its 1987 Montreal Protocol) should they decide to take measures to manage N2O in the future. There are clear legal avenues to regulate N2O under the ozone regime as well as several ways to share authority with the existing and future international climate treaties. N2O mitigation strategies exist to address the most significant anthropogenic sources, including agriculture, where behavioral practices and new technologies could contribute significantly to reducing emissions. Existing policies managing N2O and other forms of reactive nitrogen could be harnessed and built on by the ozone regime to implement N2O controls. There are several challenges and potential cobenefits to N2O control which we discuss here: food security, equity, and implications of the nitrogen cascade. The possible inclusion of N2O in the ozone regime need not be viewed as a sign of failure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to adequately deal with climate change. Rather, it could represent an additional valuable tool in sustainable development diplomacy.

Major emerging powers in sustainable development diplomacy: Assessing their leadership potential

It is often argued that the growth of major emerging powers, such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil, will have a transformative effect on the world economy and politics, but the implications of their rise on sustainable development diplomacy have remained understudied. Do these new powers have the potential to exercise leadership and address the stalled performance on the sustainable development agenda? Drawing on theories of leadership in multiparty negotiations and the empirical study of two major emerging powers’ coalitions, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China), this article assesses their leadership potential in sustainable development diplomacy. It finds that emerging powers are already engaging in policy coordination in the sustainable development realm, have begun to use their influence to create incentives for other actors in the system and have been conducting skillful diplomacy to develop their coalitions and forge consensus in global policy-making. However, exerting actual global leadership would require building a stronger policy agenda. One area with particular potential for emerging powers to exert leadership is the clean energy arena of sustainable development diplomacy.

Transforming Global Forest Governance

Since sustainable development entered the international agenda in the mid1980s, sustainable development governance (SDG) has evolved rapidly. The term SDG refers to the sum of organizations, policy instruments, financing mechanisms, rules, procedures, and norms that regulate the processes of sustainable development at the global, regional, national, and local level. Sustainable development diplomacy is the tool or the process that is available to the international community to create an effective global SDG (Hoogeveen & Verkooijen, 2010). The governance system we have today reflects both the successes and failures of this process. There is growing awareness that the present system of development is rapidly and irreversibly eroding all three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental. The current governance’s high maintenance needs, internal redundancies, and inherent inefficiencies have combined to have the perverse effect of impeding the achievement of sustainable development worldwide (Najam, Papa, & Taiyab, 2006). Against this background, we characterize Global Forest Governance (GFG) as a subset of the broader sustainable development agenda. In this paper, we take as our point of analytical departure that GFG is not only a cornerstone of sustainable development but that to understand the complexities, challenges, and nuances of GFG, it has to be placed within the evolving concept of sustainable development.

A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Global Change – By Bo Kjellén

The Geographical JournalVolume 175, Issue 4 p. 318-318 A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Global Change – By Bo Kjellén Aidan While, Aidan While University of SheffieldSearch for more papers by this author Aidan While, Aidan While University of SheffieldSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 November 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00337_6.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume175, Issue4Special Issue: Reconciling Policy, Practice and Theorisations of Waste ManagementDecember 2009Pages 318-318 RelatedInformation

Book review: Kjellén, B. 2007: A new diplomacy for sustainable development: the challenge of global change. London: Routledge. 208 pp. £65 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 95839 4

Book review: Kjellén, B. 2007: A new diplomacy for sustainable development: the challenge of global change. London: Routledge. 208 pp. £65 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 95839 4

A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Global Change ‐ By Bo Kjellén

Natural Resources ForumVolume 32, Issue 3 p. 260-261 A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Global Change - By Bo Kjellén Dr. Markku Lehtonen, Dr. Markku Lehtonen Research Fellow, Sussex Energy Group SPRU — Science and Technology Policy Research The Freeman Centre University of Sussex, Brighton United KingdomSearch for more papers by this author Dr. Markku Lehtonen, Dr. Markku Lehtonen Research Fellow, Sussex Energy Group SPRU — Science and Technology Policy Research The Freeman Centre University of Sussex, Brighton United KingdomSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 September 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2008.00196.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume32, Issue3August 2008Pages 260-261 RelatedInformation

Pathways to the Future: The New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development

Pathways to the Future: The New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Diplomacy in the Private Business Sector: An Integrative Perspective on Game Change Strategies at Multiple Levels

AbstractThis article attempts to offer an "integral" perspective for locating the business and industry sector in both political and socio-organizational realms and for capturing major game change strategies envisaged by this sector to contribute more or less actively to emerging sustainable development (SD) regimes. Corporate SD strategies are construed in terms of "three-level games": Level I - changing products through individual management systems; Level II - changing individual business environments; and Level III - changing the international institutional setting. This perspective will help address two overarching preoccupations: (1) how to free the business-society relationship from excess structural biases and reconstruct it through industry and other major social actors engaged in a joint process of "structuration" and (2) how to harness control over the local-global nexus or "vertical inter-linkages" in an operationally meaningful way that would help deepen and broaden existing major multilateral SD agreements.

Climate negotiations at a crucial stage: the Hague meeting of contracting Parties in November 2000 and its follow‐up

AbstractThe author discusses the central issues of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol in the general context of the Rio process. The nexus of issues under negotiation in relation to climate change are viewed in the context of multilateral diplomacy for sustainable development. The article outlines the background to the important Sixth Conference of the Parties, held in the Hague in November 2000, and highlights the relationship between the main actors in the negotiations. Finally, the main results of the Hague negotiations are presented, followed by comments on follow‐up procedures and perspectives.