Dear GEP-ED colleagues, We are writing to invite you to participate in the (now virtual) 2020 International SDG Research Symposium GLOBALGOALS2020, to be held 9-11 June 2020. Main Theme: In 2015, governments adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 targets as part of a global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The ambition expressed in these goals is unprecedented; the Agenda aims at nothing less than 'Transforming Our World'. But can this prominent example of global goal-setting, as a new central approach in global governance, help resolve the pressing challenges of economic development, poverty eradication, social justice, and global environmental protection? While the United Nations and many member states place great hopes on this novel strategy, there is little scientific knowledge on whether such global goals can live up to exceedingly high expectations. Can 'global governance through goals' be effective - and under which conditions? The fully virtual 2020 SDG Research Symposium provides a forum for the exchange of cutting-edge research and policy studies on this question. The Symposium brings together a broad group of social scientists from universities and prominent think tanks for a first stocktaking of what we know about the actual impact of 'governance through goals'. The SDG Research Symposium will not address sustainability governance as such but focus on assessing the effects of global goal-setting, with special emphasis on the Sustainable Development Goals as the premier and most comprehensive global goal-setting effort to-date. The Symposium is free and fully online; however, prior registration for the parallel paper sessions is required. The full programme, further information and the registration site is available at https://www.globalgoalsproject.eu/globalgoals2020/ The Symposium is organized by the GLOBALGOALS Project at Utrecht University and co-hosted by the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, the German Development Institute (DIE), Southern Voice, and the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme. The Earth System Governance research alliance has endorsed the event.
All the best Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann and Carole-Anne Sénit Co-chairs, GLOBALGOALS2020 https://www.globalgoalsproject.eu/globalgoals2020/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/AM7PR05MB679020218978A233EF6C895B8E8B0%40AM7PR05MB6790.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com.
