Elgar Companion to Global Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by Pamela Chasek, Professor of Political Science, Manhattan University, USA

‘With UN multilateralism under pressure and the original SDGs soon reaching their due date rather than their targets, imminent discussions of a “post-2030” agenda warrant a sober reassessment of global governance with and, indeed, through goals. This comprehensive volume provides an ideal vantage point for precisely that exercise!’

• Contents1 Introduction to Global Governance and the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals 1Pamela ChasekPART I  GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SDGS2 The Sustainable Development Goals: past, present, and futurePerspective 11Paula Caballero3 The meaning, evolution, and limits of the SDGs’ coherence agenda 15Steven Bernstein and Chen Zhong4 An HLPF 2.0 for a decisive push towards SDG implementation? Peerlearning, partnerships and political leadership 33Marianne Beisheim and Felicitas Fritzsche5 How inclusive are international discussions on the SustainableDevelopment Goals? Lessons learned from youth 47Amandine Orsini and Yi hyun Kang6 Global sustainability governance platforms in transition: from the COVID19 crisis to enduring change1 62Elise Remling and Ayşem MertPART II  SDG GOVERNANCE ACROSS THE UN SYSTEM7 The UN system and SDGs: breakthroughs and challengesPerspective 79Hossein Fadaei8 Evolving role of the United Nations Environment Programme in advancingglobal environmental governance and the Sustainable Development Goals 82Maria Ivanova and Olga Skaredina9 The SDGs and global health governance: impacts, shifts, gaps, and risks 102Liz Willetts10 Financing for sustainable development in the age of pandemic: multilateraldevelopment banks’ COVID-19 responses and their impacts on theSustainable Development Goals 119Sven P.C. Borghart, Marjanneke J. Vijge, and Yixian Sun11 Digital and hybrid multilateralism to the rescue during the COVID-19pandemic 132Silvia C. Ruiz-RodríguezPART III  SDG GOVERNANCE AT THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS12 SDG actions by the Government of JapanPerspective 148Norichika Kanie13 Mobilizing whole-of-society to advance SDG governance: what are welearning from multistakeholder national reviews? 153Wangu Mwangi and Nicolas Sautejeau14 Accelerating progress on the SDGs: implications from Voluntary NationalReviews 166Mark Elder15 Process matters in sustainability governance: a regional experience of the2030 Agenda deliberations 182S. Beth Fascitelli16 Governing for biodiversity in constrained states: an analysis of Brazil andMexico 198Anthony CalacinoPART IV  SDG GOVERNANCE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL17 Challenges to local implementation of the SDGs: a case study in the BronxPerspective 217Dart Westphal18 Sustainable development governance in sub-national governments: the caseof Wales and the Well-being of Future Generations Act 222Laura De Vito19 Sub-national government hostility, fund capture and power play asopposing forces in local-level SDG attainment: reflections on two casestudies in southern Africa 235Suzi Malan20 Governance of the 2030 Agenda: glocality and the territorialization of theSDGs in the Brazilian Amazon 251Thiago Gehre Galvão, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Yara R.M.Martinelli, and Rodrigo Ramiro21 From shallow to deep: evaluating the integration of sustainabledevelopment curriculum at higher education institutions 266Shannon Gibson and Christina ChkarboulPART V  BEYOND 2030: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCETHROUGH GOALS22 Global goal setting: the SDGs and beyondPerspective 280David Donoghue23 Litigating the Sustainable Development Goals 284Daniel Bertram24 Sustainable Development Goals and civil society: lessons for futurenegotiations and decision-making 296Roni Kay M. O’Dell25 Promises and pitfalls of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals:a research agenda 310Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit, and Yixian Sun26 Conclusion: lessons learned on governance and the SustainableDevelopment Goals 322Pamela Chasek