ABSTRACT

The year 2020 has urged Humanity to rethink the sustainable development agenda. The COVID-19 pandemic rearticulated the gaps in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to benefit remote regions and and their populations including Arctic Indigenous Peoples. In this brief communication, we want to draw attention to the need of reshaping UN SDGs in light of the ‘new normal’ to promote sustainable development of Arctic Indigenous communities. The UN Agenda 2030 sets priorities that have relevance to the Arctic, with its rapidly changing environmental and social systems that are interlinked to other parts of the globe. Successful implementation of SDGs in the Arctic can only be accomplished through an open and pluralistic dialog among global and Arctic stakeholders with the engagement, equal partnership, and under the guidance of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples. This process, we argue, could start by revising the existing 17 goals and creating five new ones (Sustainable Governance and Indigenous Rights, Resilient Indigenous Societies, Livelihoods and Knowledge systems, Life on Ice and Permafrost, Equity and Equality in Access to Natural Resources, and Investment in Youth and Future Generations) that represent Indigenous People’s knowledge and aspirations for sustainable development. By indigenizing SDGs in the Arctic, we will not only build the Arctic’s own sustainable development framework but attain greater equity and expand the knowledge base of sustainable development globally.

摘要

2020 年敦促人类重新思考可持续发展议程。COVID-19 大流行重新阐明了在实施可持续发展目标 (SDG) 以造福偏远地区及其人口（包括北极土著人民）方面的差距。在这次简短的交流中，我们希望提请注意根据“新常态”重塑联合国可持续发展目标的必要性，以促进北极土著社区的可持续发展。联合国 2030 年议程设定了与北极相关的优先事项，其快速变化的环境和社会系统与全球其他地区相互关联。可持续发展目标在北极的成功实施只能通过全球和北极利益相关者之间的开放和多元化对话来实现，包括参与、平等伙伴关系、并在北极土著人民的指导下。我们认为，这个过程可以从修改现有的 17 个目标并创建五个新目标开始（可持续治理和土著权利、弹性土著社会、生计和知识系统、冰上和永久冻土上的生命、获取自然资源的公平和平等、和对青年和后代的投资）代表土著人民对可持续发展的知识和愿望。通过在北极实现可持续发展目标的本土化，我们不仅将构建北极自己的可持续发展框架，而且将获得更大的公平性并扩大全球可持续发展的知识基础。有弹性的土著社会、生计和知识系统、冰上和永久冻土上的生命、自然资源获取方面的公平和平等以及对青年和后代的投资）代表土著人民对可持续发展的知识和愿望。通过在北极实现可持续发展目标的本土化，我们不仅将构建北极自己的可持续发展框架，而且将获得更大的公平性并扩大全球可持续发展的知识基础。有弹性的土著社会、生计和知识系统、冰上和永久冻土上的生命、自然资源获取方面的公平和平等以及对青年和后代的投资）代表土著人民对可持续发展的知识和愿望。通过在北极实现可持续发展目标的本土化，我们不仅将构建北极自己的可持续发展框架，而且将获得更大的公平性并扩大全球可持续发展的知识基础。