Purpose

This study aims to assess progress toward achieving international (United Nations’) goals and targets for attaining sustainable development and discuss the risks of worldwide failure.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors highlight the relationship between global goals/targets and governance, relate this to the concept of sustainable development, outline and compare Millennium Development Goals and their successors, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and lastly view SDG implementation from two major spaces i.e. the governance and science space, respectively.

Findings

Governance and culture as new components of sustainable development may be sine qua non for humanity’s transformative action toward global and just sustainable development. Through fostering informed decision and policymaking, modern science, as sketched in this contribution, should provide the framework for realizing Agenda 2030. Earth System Science and its innovative notions such as the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points and tipping elements will be key in the process of “designing” blank a sustainable future of and for Homo sapiens.

Originality/value

This essay proposes developing holistic approaches to cooperate at all levels in urgent efforts to meet goals projected for 2030 and 2050. The complexity and functioning of the governance space, comprising a system of governance systems, is illustrated not only in the diversity of the institutional landscape but in particular through the blurring of all scales – local to global.

中文翻译：

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2030年是明天：受虐待的地球母亲的变革

目的

这项研究旨在评估实现国际（联合国）目标以实现可持续发展的进展，并讨论世界范围内失败的风险。

设计/方法/方法

作者着重介绍了全球目标/目标与治理之间的关系，将其与可持续发展的概念联系起来，概述和比较了千年发展目标及其后继者，即可持续发展目标（SDG），最后从两个主要领域（即：分别是治理和科学领域。

发现

治理和文化作为可持续发展的新组成部分，可能是人类为全球和可持续发展而采取的变革行动的必要条件。通过促进明智的决策和决策，本贡献中所概述的现代科学应为实现2030年议程提供框架。地球系统科学及其创新概念（例如人类世，行星边界，临界点和临界元素）将是实现这一目标的关键。 “设计”过程为智人的可持续未来铺平了道路。

创意/价值

本文提出了开发整体方法以在各级紧急合作中实现为2030年和2050年计划的目标。治理空间的复杂性和功能，包括治理系统的系统，不仅在机构格局的多样性中得到了说明。但尤其是从本地到全球的所有规模的模糊化。